Van Allen Fine Art Gallery
 
  Van Allen Fine Art Gallery (still under construction),is a place to display art done in a finer manner,but not necessarily a better manner,since it takes an equal amount of skill to do a painting as to do a cartoon or any other piece of commercial art.There's just art, good bad and indifferent. We hope you're not indifferent to the art you find here,but the contradiction in terms is an old one, as today what we term masterpieces of say Baroque or Renaisance or Romantic art were often done for and under quite commercial circumstances.When the Pope was his client, Michelangelo didn't always sleep well at night.Today,fine art can be "fine" or indeed quite crude,or one may pass by it never realizing it's meant to be art.There's arty , artsy- fartsy and art for arts sake.There are also designs on shower curtains or sewing machines, or during certain periods even parking meters and street lamps which I sometimes consider fine or great art.Also there's art done as part of a commercial production process,such as a film,TV show,magazine,website,breadloaf wrapper,or even a commercial itself that sticks in my mind forever and I'll collect a copy of it if I can.I suppose today fine art is most often defined as that which is done purely for the love of it, or from an inspiration with no project in mind except the inspiration itself,for the beauty of,or other quality of the subject which bares treatment,tribute or variation in the service of communication of an idea or feeling.It may not necessarily be done with a commercial motive in mind, but certainly is subject hopefully to commercial sales,(after all an artist has to eat and buy piant).But here, I've rambled on longer than some of those disertations on a giant blank canvas I had to listen to in art school. Just look and hopefully enjoy. KVA