At this day and change of time in a globally subjective, socially varied, and technologically progressing world, contemporary artists stretch their boundaries. By this means artists voice their opinions and views through art, to the wide-ranging and fast moving social backdrop of individualities, morals and politics. A good amount of portion of contemporary art today is more likely to definite a specific thought or emotion than a distinct scene or description. Whereas, this again involves the view to anticipate it, and discover their personal importance within the art, and within among themselves.
There are many successful and popular contemporary artists among the world right now, where they tend to produce thousands of art pieces for many…show more content… The ultimate question is, why are people now taking a renewed interest in Giorgia Griffas’s work suddenly? This brings to a very interesting argument that was his work not praised among his time or whether the audience preferred more realistic paintings instead of some unpopular artist’s passion. Whatever it was it is worth mentioning that Griffa’s hard work is surely paying that audience are liking his unique approach to paintings, and this can be proven by the fact that the artist is having a solo exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre. Griffas way of approach to his paintings are very different from what an audience gets to see in an exhibition, gallery or any kind of museum. Normally there is a norm that paintings should be done on pre-stretched cottons or linen canvases. For example, according to (Museo Del Prado) pre-stretched canvas “possessed numerous advantages” whereas “it was more resistant to damp” where it easier for an artist to paint on a firm surface, and this helps to be in control. However, in Griffa’s case the artists break the old norm habits where all of his paintings contain a very massive cotton or linen unprimed and upstretched fabric material. Griffas paints all his works with watercolor and acrylic paints, they are then mixed evenly and lightly which will be easier to seep into the unprimed canvas fabric materials. The…show more content… Galleries sometimes tends to want certain subject matter or themes, it is no doubt that most galleries play safe and stick in the middle line of only showing popular artists’ works because then only that would get the gallery itself most amount of recognition. Over the years the world has seen naked pale ladies lounging and resting covered on blankets and beds, flowers and skies and landscapes painted with various different mediums, however Griffa had a mind of his own. There are very few artists just like Griffa who tend to produce a rather unique works with some much history and meaning towards the pieces and just like the artists there are few galleries where they tend to love the unique ideas of an artists for example Camden Arts Centre, which tend to give the recognition Griffa worked hard all these years for. These can all be the reason why people are taking a sudden interest in the artists’ work uniqueness, a passion and hunger towards art and a stubbornness for not wanting to give up and wanting to show the individuals talent to
