Today's Art Renaissance...

The People's Art Renaissance!

We're standing at the dawn of a new era.  While

we're taking this very tour there is an art renaissance being

born all across the globe. The availability of reproductions in

a very high quality and at a low cost is changing the

landscape of the art world forever. This silent change has

sparked a transformation, whose surge will be felt centuries

from now and be proclaimed as The People's Art

Renaissance.

Art has always been trendy with those who could

afford it. The reason why when you walk around a museum

you notice endless pictures of rich merchants, dukes and

queens is because they were the only one's who could afford

to commission an artist back then. Today, people no longer

have to be the Medicis, the Guggenheims, the Gettys, or the

Rockefellers in order to have a striking art collection. There

is no more system of private patronage where an artist is

supported by a single individual, beholden unto them and

suffering the possibility of dying in a street corner from

starvation. You, me and our neighbors are the new

patrons of today's art! The market has broadened widely

with a rapidly growing customer base, making popular

acclaim among collectors a powerful currency for the artists.

This is creating a profound change in the way the art

industry views collectors and the way it is managed.

Many artists today with enormously successful careers

touch the lives of millions of people with something akin to

love, and yet are never even looked at by "the

established art critics." With today's maturing art market

the idea of an `arts critic' in someway being an authority on

art has become passé and a misnomer. Art critics are the

people buying the art, those people who speak with their