Luigi Frullini Hand Carved 5 Foot Bench
I recently had the distinct pleasure of handling a suite of 6 pieces of furniture built by the Italian master, Luigi Frullini (Italian, 1839 – 1897). What sublime carving! It was definitely a highlight of last years estate buying…and selling. 
Frullini exhibited furniture at the Great International Exhibitions in London, Paris and Vienna. The wood-carvings of this Florentine artist are well known in England and the United States. They are in many fine houses, both as decorations, in the way of friezes, ceilings, chimney-pieces,three-dimensional carvings of people, animals and flowers,articles of furniture, picture-frames, and ornamental boxes, medallions, and articles of fantasia. In 1896, he went to the United States to exhibit more of his furniture at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. His works were inspired by the carved pieces of the Italian Renaissance. His elaborate pieces set the fashion for the last years of the 19th century.
The pieces by Frullini were made by carving into a large block of wood; he did not apply small carved pieces to a large board. To accommodate all the carved decorations, he made huge pieces. It was not furniture for the average bedroom, but it was suited to the huge homes of millionaires and museums.
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term ‘life’ as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature’s phenomena before it can again be great.
Edward Hoppe – Artist
Although art collection is becoming a rage these days but this trend is not new and its history can be traced back to the beginning of the social existing of human being . in those times so called riches used to patronize those people who choose to wander so called untraditional paths when It comes to choosing an occupation. Those people used to create sculptures, paintings and handicrafts specifically keeping in mind the need of their patronizer, off course there were no galleries or art summit present at that time but these rich people used to flaunt these artifacts in their palaces or holiday homes. Aetion, Agatharchos, Antiphilos these people were not active traders of their art but just created it to signify their time, off course these are precious pieces of history now but at that time they would have not thought of them becoming the historic icons of their times, with their work they have immortalized the moments, people or whatever topic they chose to vent their feelings.
So are these artist really work to just vent their feeling or do they have real motives behind their masterpieces, if we talk about historic icons then every talk is a matter of conjecture but we can talk about artists of our time for them everything is now just money making schemes, everybody wants to be an artist whether they have proper artistic acumen or not, now if we talk about this then we can go into another discussion that for later keep on checking my blogs on neokala.wordpress.com but for the sake of argument lets assume not everyone who becomes an artist is a sham but the morality of those who we are keeping outside can still be questioned, so finding a gallery which cater to the right audience and right artists is very important there are very few committed people out there who really wanted to provide quality to provide access to that niche market which a true art lover must have access to, so before stepping into the bandwagon of buying the art please assess all the options and then venture into the territory.
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