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Folk Art Auctions

Folk art auctions feature a wide range of objects that reflect the artist’s craft traditions, and traditional social values. Folk art is generally produced by people who have small or no academic artistic training. Folk artists usually use established techniques and styles of a particular region or culture.

Folk art auctions include paintings, sculptures and other decorative art forms. Some artists also consider utilitarian objects such as tools and costumes as folk art. For the most part, the category of folk art auctions exclude works by professional artists.

It has been my experience that folk art auctions have something for just about anyone. I found a folk art painting of a cat in a peach tree that was done by the artist Tascha. The artist also noted on the folk art auction that they make unique ceramic tile art.

My mother bought a blanket chest for me years ago that I listed recently in a folk art auction. The chest was made about two hundred hears ago and is very gorgeous. The original painted decorations are still intact.

I found an fascinating folk art auction for a carnival knock-down dummy in the shape of a large cat. It was made around 1930 and is twice the size of similar items. I researched the item on a non-auction site and found that it is worth a lot of money.

My heart is still swayed by Americana folk art auctions. I recently fell in like with a painting I found up for auction of Elvis on a Harley in front of a large American flag. It was spectacular! The stretched canvas was painted with acrylics.

I especially like the Halloween themed folk art auction I found that was offered by Sister Raya New Orleans Folk Art. The title of the painting was Small Spooky the Cat – Awaiting the Fantastic Pumpkin. The painting was painted in classic vintage style and used gold maple, red sapphire, blue pearl, white, pumpkin orange, sable brown, amber rust and jet black. I want to have this hanging on my wall all through the autumn months.

Another folk art auction that I found and was sad to bid up past my budget was a handmade set of miniature dominos. The set was in a folk art decorated maple case. The set dates from the mid to late 1800’s. It was really exquisite and I’m sorry that I missed out on it.

I really liked another folk art auction that I found for a modern fraktur. A fraktur is a specific kind of Pennsylvania German folk art. The fraktur I found was a watercolor of a marriage record. It was very colorful and looked like it held very special significance to its original owners.

I found a wood box from Maine in a folk art auction that really appealed to me. It was rather small, but was painted chrome yellow and was trimmed in forest green. The paint was crazed and worn and it was made in the late nineteenth century. There were no visible nails and the hardware was reported as looking original.

The folk art auction that I missed out on that was way out of my price range was for an Andrew Clemens sand bottle. The sand bottle was date 1887 and was covered in patriotic decorations. It was an apothecary style bottle with a stopper and it contained at least ten different colors of sand. The bottle finished up selling for eighty five hundred dollars. I’m sure that it has finished up in an brilliant collection of folk art.

I found an amusing folk art auction for three wooden carvings. The name of the piece was Three Articulating Folk Art Whimseys and were all made by the same artist. The carvings were accented with sheet metal neckties. The first carving in the folk art auction was of a cobbler, a blacksmith and a gentleman with a donkey. The second carving was a diminutive soldier and the third was a cobbler smoking a pipe. I reckon that this piece of Americana was bought at a low price of three thousand dollars and was worth much more.onto a black light stand that has been built especially for them.

Art Auctions: Art Deco

In the field of modern art, art deco plays a large and impressively lavish role. The strong colors and sweeping curves lend art deco the trademark boldness that expressed much of the progress and modern advances of the twentieth century. Art auctions around the world still go many art deco pieces of various kinds. If you’re interested in collecting art deco, there are many art auctions both online and off that deal primarily in art deco.

In the twentieth century the decorative arts converged in what is known as the art deco movement, which grew to influence architecture, fashion, the visual arts as well as design. The term ‘art deco’ was derived from a World’s Honest held in Paris, France, called the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes in the year 1925.

Though the movement and term comes from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, the term was not widely used until the late 1960s. Especially pre- World War I Europe influenced the art deco movement, though many cultures influenced and were influenced by this art movement. Much of the world was experiencing similar shifts in modern technological advances.

For the most part, the art deco movement was brought about and inspired by the rapid advances of technological and social facets of the early twentieth century. As culture responded to these increasingly changing times, the art deco movement was an outgrowth of these modern phenomena.

Art deco is considered generally to be an eclectic type of decorative modernism that was influenced by a variety of artists and particular art forms. Art deco includes furniture, metalwork, clocks, glasswork and screens as well as paintings and other fine art types of pieces.

The art deco style is known for its lavishness and epicurean flairs that are attributed to the austerity of culture brought about by World War I. Strong patterns and bold colors and shapes were used, as were many particular motifs used universally.

For example, the sunburst motif was used in everything from the Radio City Music Hall auditorium, images of ladies’ shoes, the spire of the Chrysler Building and several other pieces of art, architecture and design. Other ubiquitous motifs found in art deco were stepped forms, the zigzag, chevron patterns and sweeping curves.

In the West, art deco lost its steam around the Second World War, but continued to be used all the way into the 1960s in colonial countries such as India, where it served as a gateway to Modernism. Then in the 1980s art deco made a comeback in graphic design. Art deco’s association with 1930s film noir led to its use in both fashion and jewelry ads.

Today art deco is revered by many and dismissed as ancient news and overly gaudy by others. Though it undoubtedly played a major role in art history, as with most art, individual taste frames the individual’s interpretation and like or dislike of art deco styles.

Art deco is one of the most well known art movements. This is mostly due to its wide base of influences and influenced art forms and cultures. Since much of the world was experiencing many of the same advances in technology and mass production, many of the same thoughts and symbols were relevant in various parts of the world.

Penny auctions, the new entertainment shopping experience

Everyone likes a bargain and in times of economic recession, the need to make the pennies stretch has never been more pressing. This may be one reason why the popularity of penny auction sites has soared.

Penny auctions offer the opportunity to bid for products online for a fraction of their usual value. Just about everything and anything is readily available on these sites, from high end, luxury goods such as plasma TVs, designer watches and top of the range computer equipment, through to items such as store discount vouchers and somewhat bizarrely, even chunks of cash.

The premise is simple. Prices always start at zero, each auction is on a timer and the last bidder standing gets the goods. So in theory, in a matter of minutes, the £300 sunglasses could be yours for just a few pence.

There is, of course, no such thing as a free lunch and you will have to pay every time you place a bid. The price per bid ranges from site to site but usually starts from as small as 50p. How much you will need to spend to get the item depends on how many other bidders there are.

The enticement of these penny auction sites is as much the entertainment and the ‘thrill of the chase’ as the opportunity to bag a bargain. Where else can you try to outsmart your fellow bargain hunter, against the clock, whilst hopefully coming away with a bargain – all from the comfort of your armchair?

Bargain Entertainment Shopping using Penny Auctions

Bargain entertainment shopping is a fantastic way to save money and find a bargain and penny auction websites are an exciting phenomena that are becoming more and more well loved by the day.

Penny auction sites give customers the opportunity to bid on a variety of new items. This type of entertainment shopping is the perfect way to grab a bargain. Bargain entertainment penny auction sites require that the bidder registers in order to be eligible to make bids.

Each site specifies how much a bid will cost and this varies from site to site, so for example 5 bids may cost £5 but buying in larger quantities will reduce the price of each bid. There is a count down to when the bidding will start and each bid placed raises the price of an item by a penny, hence the name.

Because the bidding usually starts at zero pounds the penny auction system invariably results in a sale price that is far greater than its retail price. Many sites have a bid butler facility where the bidder can enlist an autobidder to bid on his or her behalf and can specify an upper bidding limit. When bidding a clock counts down to zero, at which point the bidding ends and the person who placed the last bid before the expiry time wins the item and pays the final bidding price.

Various useful strategies can be applied when bidding such as not making the first bid when there are several days to go before an item expires.