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Published & Offered-Art in Progress

Art, as this blog also, is about sharing.

Artists paints artworks, finish it, make exhibition, offer them,… that’s the usual way,…

But…

Here at this page you are in the possibility to see my longterm artworks in process of creation, in process of revealing them, and in every phase of creation.

When the artwork is finished? When artist say or feel it’s enough, but…
What if You think or wish it’s enough for that artwork in the current state of creation?!

If You are interested, I’m inviting You to post with Your comments Your offers also

What if…Again?

Oil on canvas, 80X120cm

This painting I’ve started few years ago!!!
Now I’m ready to continue with painting!

What it is about? By the bible first people on the Earth was Adam & Eve… you probably know the story.. Eden, snake, apple,…

And here my painting goes… Present day at the earth, or somewhere in the sky, in front of the gates of Heaven Eve is still young, and Adam is old, after all those years of healthy  Earth life, with wrinkles, hair loss,…

What If he had this experience, or knows what will happen, consequences, … WOULD HE TOOK THIS APPLE?! WOULD HE HAVE THAT TEMPTATION? WOULD HE?

On my painting they are inforont of the gates of Heaven, Eves hand becomes snake, and in fact Eve/Snake are offering this apple again. In the middle is Holy Grail (represents eternal life)… Will he take in, will he grab it?

Sketches

Drawings on paper.

Current state… underpainting-second layer

White Angel

Oil on canvas, 50X70cm

Orthodox Icon reproduction, original in monastery Mileseva-Serbia

Sotheby’s Summer 2008 Sales of Impressionist & Modern And Contemporary Art Realizes $497 Million

LONDON - Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Art Sales series concluded, having achieved a remarkable total of £251,047,957 ($497,450,648) –the highest total for any series of Summer Sales ever staged by the company in Europe. 15 new artist records were set (including many for works by leading artists such as Richard Prince, Bridget Riley, Anthony Gormley and Anish Kapoor.)

Robin Woodhead, Chairman Sotheby’s International, said: “Sotheby’s two weeks of sales demonstrated the enormous appeal of quality works in today’s market place, as bidders cast aside pre-sale estimates to pursue the artworks that they found desirable. Our total for sales of Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Art this year in London and New York is up 22% on the first half of last year and our average sold lot value has increased to $762,961, from $643,757 established in our equivalent sales series in 2007. Sale on sale we are seeing that the art market has continuing strength, which is being bolstered through determined bidding by new and established collectors from all corners of the world.”

The total for sales of Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Art this year in London and New York is up 22% on the first half of last year. Our Summer Sales average sold lot value has increased to $762,961, from $643,757 in June 2007. 52 lots sell for over £1 million / 102 sell for over $1 million. Seven lots sold for over £5 million / 20 lots for over $5 million. Two lots sell for over £10 million / seven lots for over $10 million.

Contemporary Art - Record total for any series of Contemporary Art sales ever held in Europe (Total: £121/$242.3 million). Sotheby’s worldwide sales of Contemporary Art for the first half of 2008 are up 43.6% on the same period in 2007. Marlene Dumas’ the visitor, from 1995, realized a record £3.17 ($6.3) million, making it the most expensive work by a living female artist at auction. The Evening Sale of Contemporary Art saw an average sold lot value of £1,330,824, which is an increase of more than £200,000 on last June’s average sold lot value of £1,097,403. The Contemporary Art Day Sale achieved £26.8 ($53.5) million – the highest ever total for a Day Sale of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s London. The Lauffs Collection has so far realized a total of $140,243,980 (£71,557,401), against a presale estimate of $57,632,500 – 79,092,000.

Impressionist & Modern Art - The average sold lot value in the Evening Impressionist & Modern Sale was £2,044,930. In the Evening Auction, more lots found buyers than ever before in a various owners sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in London: 90% sold by lot (50 sold out of 55 offered). The Impressionist & Modern Works on Paper Sale made £8.9 million - the highest total for any such sale ever held by the company in Europe. The Collection of Haaken A. Christensen commanded a total of £15,246,350 against a presale estimate of £7,103,000-10,655,000.

source: www.artknowledgenews.com

Web Design, Why?

I had this great idea, to live where I live, in Serbia, to work what I love and like-to paint, and to provide my living by selling my works of art. How to manage that? I’ve decided to make my personal page, at the space provided by my internet provider (3MB), and after few months, and sleepless nights, my first website was ready. I was ready to go internationally. I can remember, that night when I have uploaded my first website my girlfriend and I have opened bottle of wine and cheer…

That was the beginning…

Did I sell anything via that site? … NO

… but thanks to this site I have begun to make websites for my friends.

This first website was great beginning, for some new opportunities in life, great introduction in capabilities of internet…

I have made my second website www.topalski.com, and this site was, and still is… great project, totally hand made, without any base (sql), but still have more than 360 html pages, 314 artworks, and real links about 800! But… when I count links at the side-bar (member off,…) it has more than 20.000 links!!! First page at the moment has google page rank 4! For some art related searches it is listed at the top of major search engines!

I design websites, because it gives me freedom, like painting, freedom of artistic creation, freedom to play, freedom to explore.

Currently I’m working on this blog, main conte website (www.conteart.com) and on some websites for my frinds.

Oh yeah, not to forget, when I make some website for my friends, after that, they share with me they money friends

I you wish, we could share and be friends!

Why I’m painting?

Because I like and love it. It gives me freedom, when I paint I’m in my own world and I have a freedom to paint what I like and what I want in that particular moment. That is the main reason why I have a lot of experiments. You can shock in art someone in many ways, and we were witnesses of that through history. I prefer more to produce art that will emerge your feelings, your thoughts, artwork to which you will come again and again and again. That particular and special type of art I call OPVS EVOLVZIONE and they are something specific and personal!

In my case and my painting, sometimes inspiration is some photo, sometimes it’s the artwork of some other artist (because of theme or technique), I have also these special moments when I practically see finished painting that I have never seen before.

Sometimes I dream it and sometimes it’s that moment between dream and reality! After that I made a drawing, but the most difficult thing is to paint that painting as I “saw it” sometimes during the process of painting something new emerges up, something I haven’t expected faces that you see in one moment and faces that you’ve never seen before at this work in the next moment!