Finally, it's here! If you love art, but think you can't afford it, your search is over. Now, an art book that doesn't talk down to you. "The Art of Everyday Joe: A Collector's Journal," is a spectacular trip through the world of contemporary art. Picking up where "Art In King Size Beds: A Collector's Journal," leaves off, join collector Michael K.Corbin on his continuing journey and discover that great art is actually within your reach. Art enriches your life and home, but more importantly the world. This fantastic book will leave you wondering why you didn't become an art collector much sooner. Dozens of full color illustrations from Corbin's own collection are included. Buckle up for another thrilling ride. 216 pgs, full color.
Michael Corbin is an avid art collector, writer, full-time broadcast journalist, yogi and runner. A New York City native, he travels far and wide for art's sake. He writes for various art websites that include absolutearts.com,emoma.org, ebsqart.com and 123soho.com.
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FLY ON THE WALL
The next time you visit an art museum or gallery, be a fly on the wall.
Looking at people looking at art is almost as interesting as looking at art. Art doesn't end with canvas and clay. There's more to painting than the surface.
See the BIGGER picture. Art can be a fly on the wall too. Artists, admittedly or not, also paint the expressions on the faces of people who look at art. Faces are canvases for impressions … the artist's and the onlooker's. Thoughts and emotions are the paint.
Is the emotion happy, sad, angry, in love or indifferent? With each new face, a new painting … with each new painting, a new face to paint. A painting looking at a painting … our faces mirror back a different image. If the artist is really good, the exact emotion of the painting will show on each and every onlooker’s face. Is this impressionism come full circle?
From brush to paint to canvas to face, to that invisible, inexplicable, magical thing that harkens, “Perchance to Dream,” it's infinite and ever changing.
Be a fly on the wall. You'll see.