subject: Canvas Art In The Home [print this page] With television shows solely dedicated to decorating one's home or designing ones different rooms with personal themes, art work has become a staple of many homes throughout the world. There are many different forms of art that people choose to display in their homes such as wall hangings, tapestries, and the increasing popular canvas art. This type of art has been a part of affluent homes for many centuries and was an aspect of the rich and powerful in times before the Common Era; however, with techniques that have become revised throughout time and the mass production facilities of the present, people of many different class status have come to be able to afford this particular style of art.
What Is Canvas Art
Canvas art is one of the earliest mediums that artists would use to display their drawings and paintings. Much of the time oil paintings are displayed on the canvas medium due to the fact that the textile can give much more depth to a painting or drawing than traditional paper and other mediums can. This style became increasingly popular in early artistic enlightenment ages and many of the world's most famous paintings were put down on some form of canvas. Artists found that they could over lay colors by allowing their base colors to dry and penetrate into the textile like medium where as paper would simply hold the paints and oils on the top with little or no penetration at all.
Is Canvas Art Expensive
The cost of a work of art that is displayed on a piece of canvas can vary from artist to artist and time period to time period. Works of art that were created by famous artists centuries ago can be sold for millions of dollars and rarely become available for purchase. Even artists of the modern era will sometimes gain prominence and their particular works can fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars. However, one does not have to give up the idea of owning a famous work just because of those reasons.
Printing has come a long way over the last century and now many production firms can produce a print that is strikingly close to the original work sometimes for a couple of hundred dollars. For those who do not want to spend that much, there are less expensive prints available for purchase and it simply depends on what type of quality he or she is looking for and what amount of money one wants to spend.
There are many galleries online where one can find different styles of canvas art and compare prices to many different retailers. Online auctions houses also can be a great place to find good deals on this form of art although finding a specialized piece is very rare.
What Types Are Available
The different styles and themes for canvas art are tapestries limitless. If you can think of a particular setting or theme, someone has probably painted it at some point in time. One great aspect about this particular form of art is that if you can't find, you can always contract an artist to paint it.
