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Real Estate and Art Inside Out The title is not meant to refer to the animation film of the same name. Instead, I chose it to connect to the exhibit at the Orlando Museum of Art, “Edouard Prulhière – The Inverted Sound of Painting”. What is a painting? Simply mark-making with any type of material on any type of surface. These […]
Real Estate and Art Golden Legacy Golden Books recalls times when we were young or when our children and grandchildren listened to the spoken words as they sat close. The company began with a simple idea in 1942, make books that were inexpensive and that taught moral lessons and wrap it with a gold banded spine. The United States entered World […]
Real Estate and Art The Prize Everyone loves a prize, and for good reason. It usually represents something you did that you were rewarded for. The Prize Exhibit at the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) underwritten by local philanthropists Gail and Michael Winn is in its 10th year. One artist will receive $20,000 and another the People’s Choice  Award of $2500. […]
Real Estate and Art I Think I Can, I Think I Can….I Thought I Could, I Thought I Could The Picture Book Art of Loren Long is an exhibition now exhibited at the Orlando Museum of Art. The exhibits of children’s picture books illustrators have been a mainstay of this museum for the last few years. The National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature dedicated to illustrations in children’s literature and established in 2000 in […]
Real Estate and Art Glass – Windows on the World When I found out glass was fluid and always flowing towards gravity, it made me feel like I was stagnant. However, with age, we all realize we are all melting a little from gravitational pull, after all we are molecules in motion. But when we see the works of artist Dale Chihuly or of the […]
Real Estate and Art Portraiture – The Face of Today Inga Guzyte’s Cutting Edge (From the series “Kindred Spirits”) detail, made of discarded skateboards   As humans we are connected first by the recognition of our faces. They can speak volumes about who we are. The eyes have been noted as the entrance to one’s soul. But since the pandemic we realized from photographing groups […]
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Real Estate and Art What is an NFT? Picture Above: Nevena Prijic, born 1985, Belgrade, Serbia “Vinča 1”   The question, “What is an NFT?”, is one that I have repeatedly asked with little satisfaction to the answer. However, now there is an exhibit at the Orlando Museum of Art, “TwentySomethings – Works and NFTs from the Fabio Sandoval Collection” that gets me […]
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Real Estate and Art Vivian’s Case For Real Estate and Art – Fear and Freedom Award-winning photojournalist Justyna Mielnikiewicz from Poland’s work is exhibited at the Orlando Museum of Art’s Relentless Courage: Ukraine and the World at War presented by the Gingsburg Family Foundation I enter the museum gallery and am immediately hit with the overwhelming reality of the war waged against Ukraine. Awareness was not absent in my mind, […]
Real Estate and Art Vivian’s Case for Real Estate and Art – Water, The Element Within The sound of the lapping sea always soothed my mind. Water sparkling in the sun like diamonds floating out to an infinite horizon that continues around the globe until it laps upon land elsewhere is something that drives us always to be near. Of course, water takes up the majority of this home we call […]
Uncategorized Vivian’s Case for Real Estate and Art – Envy the Green It was love of first sight! No, it was not my husband, or even my babies. It happened during my first trip abroad in Florence, Italy in the Uffizi Museum. There she was, “The Birth of Venus” by Sandro Botticelli, hair flowing, with angels around as she rose from the sea in a clamshell. It […]
Real Estate and Art Vivian’s Case for Real Estate and Art – What’s in Fashion, Sells! Parviz Tanavoli’s Heesch 1972, Bronze and Wood base   Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism, Futurism, Surrealism and on and on! The “ISM”s are created by both art critics and artists alike. We like to categorize and box in to make sense of what it is that we are doing and seeing. These categorizations have been generally […]
Real Estate and Art Vivian’s Case for Real Estate and Art – The Lights of the Season “Creating art can be transformative and healing, allowing expression where words can’t or fall short. Experiencing art can be cathartic.” This is the introductory passage for an article by Alcon Lighting, April 3, 2020, giving a history of light and its use by some of today’s Light Artists. https://www.alconlighting.com/blog/home/led-innovations-art-top-artists-use-light-medium/ As far back in the 1800s, […]
Real Estate and Art Vivian’s Case for Real Estate and Art – Individualism Detail from Daniela Edburg’s Uprooted 2019, Photographic prints, sculpture (alpaca wool), at the Orlando Museum of Art’s Exhibit, “Don’t Ask Me Where I am From”.   “Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From”, the newest exhibit at the Orlando Museum of Art, is comprised of works by second generation immigrants whose work examines their identity through […]
Real Estate and Art Vivian’s Case for Real Estate and Art – From Process to Creation Dreaming up the next project I never make process the main thought of the projected idea. But for many artists process becomes the idea. Sol Lewitt, a minimalist and conceptualist (September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007), maintained that the idea behind the execution was what was important. The idea was simple: shapes, colors, line, […]
Real Estate and Art Vivian’s Case for Real Estate and Art – Happy Accidents and Giving Thanks A great piece of art is often the result of a “happy accident”.  To recognize it as positive instead of as a mistake is the moment you give in and see that glass half full and go with it. I used to say, I start a painting but then it just paints itself to completion. […]
Real Estate and Art Vivian’s Case for Real Estate and Art – – Asymmetry Can Work   It was once said that the more symmetrical a face was, the more beautiful it looked. In fact, there is no such thing as a perfectly symmetrical face. If there happened to be one, it would not be beautiful, it would be odd. When the animators for the original Toy Story created the characters, […]
Real Estate and Art Vivian’s Case for Real Estate & Art – Context of Time & Space Context of Time and Space I saw the movie “Tár” last night. Aside from the story focused on a portion of the life of a classical conductor exquisitely portrayed by Cate Blanchett, it made me contemplate the notion of time and its relation to space. This week as I thought about the relationship of real […]
Real Estate and Art Vivian’s Case for Real Estate & Art – Talk About Lots of Space – The Art Museum! Wow – Space! Making enormous artworks and then having it shown in the largest and most prestigious of spaces, the art museum, is a big accomplishment for any artist. Their works are elevated with the sheer expanse of the space. Cave paintings, relief walls of ancient cultures like Mesopotamia, Cambodia, and Egypt overwhelm with the […]
Real Estate and Art Vivian’s Case For Real Estate and Art – Looking Into My Past What did we do during the pandemic shutdown? I cleaned my garage and made a blog with the help of my friend, professional blogger of “Rona Recommends”. When cleaned up, I hoped to get going with brush on canvas. Instead, I threw myself into the real estate business with my newly earned license just prior […]

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