Art Market Trends

http://www.artbusiness.com/osoquspec.html

http://artmarketmonitor.com/category/economic-trends/

Decoration or Fine Art?

Nicholas Forrest is an art market analyst, art critic, and journalist based in Sydney, Australia. He is the founder of artmarketblog.com.

http://www.artmarketblog.com/2007/08/28/investing-in-art-the-danger-of-fads-and-trends/

Good article -- "What is Decorative Painting?" 

http://www.artezan.com/artezan/whatis/whatis.html

Good article -- "The Nabis and Decorative Painting"

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dcpt/hd_dcpt.htm

Collage and Assemblage Materials

Exhibition explores the ways that collage and assemblage have evolved over the last century.  Exhibition explores the use of diverse materials in artworks.  It involves experiments in mixed media from 1913 to the present.

"By expanding the range of materials available for their work, artists using techniques of collage, assemblage and montage have enriched the language of art and extended its potential to comment upon life. "

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62075   (news article)

http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/home/#collection=home   (museum)

Name of exhibit is "Over, Under, Next: Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913–Present."
Exhibit to Sept. 8, 1913

Permanency of Giclee Prints and Other Reproductions

http://www.spenceguerin.com/prntrepr.html#printinks 

Excellent information about original prints and reproductions by the artist Spence Guerin.  He explains the types of orignal prints that artists make.  He explains the limitations of reproductions.  Artists use permanent materials to make original prints.  The inks used in reproductions are not permanent.  Lightfast pigments are used by artists.  Inks used in reproductions will fade and are not considered to be permanent or lightfast.