Artist exhibitions. Modern art prints

Fine arts and artist are the terms that encompass a lot of information. The arts is a broad theme that includes many disciplines and usually means only the visual arts, including painting. If taken literary painting is the practice of applying pigment to a surface, but in an artistic sense it signifies the activity that manifests the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner.

Painting is rather ancient activity, the oldest paintings are claimed by some historians to be about 32,000 years old. But there are the earliest paintings that have been discovered in two rock-shelters in northern Australia. There is an old saying that says: man doesn't live on bread alone and this fact is proved by a number of artist exhibitions, art auctions offering to buy art, art galleries providing modern art prints.

When it goes about painting color and tone, which are highly subjective play very important role. In different cultures one and same colour may be associated with various meanings. As for Western cultures painting oil and watercolor painting is the best known media, while in the East there are ink and color ink.

Viewing modern art prints, contemporary art on sale we can see that the practice of painting has been extended, and now it includes collage, different materials (wood, sand, cement). Such transition and introduction of innovative techniques and materials makes some to say that painting as a serious art form doesn't exist anymore.

Visiting various contemporary artist exhibitions one can see that among the continuing and current directions in painting are Minimalism, Lyrical Abstraction, Geometric abstraction, Appropriation, Color Field painting, Neo-expressionism, Computer art painting, Postmodern painting, Pop Art, Op Art, Abstract Expressionism, and others.

The current period of art is also associated with such technological innovations as the internet due to which contemporary artists can promote their artistic skills and artworks. Virtual galleries can contain large number of works and art lovers from different countries can easily visit such galleries and buy art easily online directly from the painter.

The selection of works exhibited at this website are the works by Valeriy Klinkov. V.Klinkov is a contemporary Ukrainian painter, he works in various styles, in such directions as Expressionism, Surrealism, Abstraction mainly. Visit www.klinkov.com to view and buy art!