What is the importance of value in visual art like painting?
Value deals with the lightness or darkness of a color. Since we see objects and understand objects because of how dark or light they are, value is incredible important to art. (I’ll remind you that drawing and painting is about seeing.)
How can I find out if a painting is valuable?
Search for paintings on your phone to see if anything comes up. If you stumble upon a piece you think may be valuable, try searching for it on Google or a similar search engine. If the painting shows up in your search results, you may have found a valuable item. If you don’t know the name of a painting, search for it using descriptors.
What do you need to know about valuing art?
Learn more… Valuing art is the act of placing a dollar value on a painting, sculpture, or other artistic work. Appraising is an art, not a science, and market trends can quickly cause fluctuations in prices.
What do we look for in Your Paintings and prints?
What do we look for in your paintings and prints? To determine an art valuation for your work of art, in the current art market, demands experience and research. We look at the history of the painting, the artist, subject and current demand, to determine a range of prices and worth if sold to a collector.
When does a painting fail because of its value?
If the value structure and composition of your painting do not work, the painting will fail regardless of how well you handle color, edges, or details. When my paintings fail, it’s nearly always because of a faulty or weak composition and value structure. Below are several examples of landscape paintings and their foundation values.
How can you tell if a painting is valuable?
Ask the person you buy the painting from where they got it. You can also ask them if they have any other receipts or documentation to go along with the painting. You will also be able to tell who owned it by checking the back of the painting.
Can a painting be read without color or value?
Without color, the painting can still be read as a realistic landscape with depth, light, and atmosphere. Without value, there is nothing but a flat field of hues, proof that the cliché regarding value and color is true: value does all the work and color gets all the credit.
If the value structure and composition of your painting do not work, the painting will fail regardless of how well you handle color, edges, or details. When my paintings fail, it’s nearly always because of a faulty or weak composition and value structure. Below are several examples of landscape paintings and their foundation values.
How can you identify the artist of a painting?
Answer: It is incredibly difficult to identify the artist of a painting without some kind of signature or other identifying feature. Sometimes signatures are hidden in the picture and a careful examination with a magnifying glass or jeweller’s loupe might reveal something useful.
