Today's art. - By: David Tatham

The thought of becoming an artist, would often make one think of 'bohemian' types with little money enjoying life's many pleasures. The idea that it could be taken as a serious career was far less romantic.

From an early age, most professional artists would enjoy, and have an aptitude for painting and drawing. It is a very small percentage people that become household names across the planet. Time and place is always an important factor for sucess, but the greatest ingredient is undoubtedly perseverance and hard work; phsyical and mental.

It is essential from the point of recognition, that the public desire to view the work of a painter. The artist 'touch' a part of the soul that had until then locked awy such feelings and emmotions.

Pre ninteen hundreds, painting was used to a certain extent as photography is used today. ie. to record certain events and people. However unlike photography art has always had a much 'looser rein'. In the way paint is applied to the canvas and the variation in colours and textures, a complete visual epic can be illustrated, as shown by many of the great masters. Artists usually have a feeling for a certain aspect in life's richness.

The northern British artist L.S.Lowry drew images of the poor struggling people, and their work places, the great northern factories where he found himself living.David Shepherd feels he owes a great debt to the animals he has painted, which have made him one of the world's greatest wildlife artists, and it gives him pleasure to help save many of the creatures on Earth that are now facing extinction, mainly through man's unrelenting greed, sadly. Sir William Russell Flint became a watercolourist after working as a medical artist, sketching various anatomical conditions throughout the war. His career developed to creating paintings of semi naked girls with long flowing robes , in a most tasteful and elegant style.

This style of work offers something quite different to what we may call 'contemporary' art. A certain amount of professional marketing is always necessary to bring the work to the public, but the latter type relies very heavily on not only heavy marketing and hype, one might say, a little like 'the emperor who wore no clothes'. There is a saying that people can be tricked sometimes and even a few peopler can be tricked all the while, but it isd sure that everyone cannot be tricked all the while." With enormous quatities of money changing hands, like the cement between the bricks, this is usually what happens, but eventually the ultimate test for geat art is.. In years to come will it still be recognised? If the answer is yes, then the work has something that will be passed on to generations. And if time fades the interest and excitement of the work, then it will disappear under the many work that have passed before.

About the Author

Over the years, art dealer David Tatham has seen the rise of many now famous artists; one such man is David Shepherd, and an extensive collection of his signed limited edition prints and original paintings can be viewed and bought from the website http://www.davidshepherd.com

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