The Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold

By Pablo Ruiz

The most famous paintings, especially old master works done before 1803, are generally owned or held at museums, for viewing by patrons. Since the museums rarely sell them, they are considered priceless. We will look at the most amazing and unique paintings sold up to 2021. Are you interested in buying a masterpiece? This is your guide to know what you should look for and why.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pablo Ruiz
• Release date: Oct 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005472474

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The Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold

Pablo Ruiz Amo

Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold

Using a two-dimensional language, painting combines an expression of emotions and ideas with aesthetic qualities. A flat surface is frequently filled with various shapes, lines, colors, and textures that generate feelings of volume, space, movement, and light. Symbolically representing real or supernatural phenomena, interpreting narrative themes, or creating wholly abstract relationships, these elements are combined into expressive patterns. It is the sensuous qualities and the expressive possibilities and limitations of each medium that determine the choice of a particular form, such as mural, easel, panel, miniature, manuscript illumination, scroll, screen or fan, panorama, or any of the various contemporary options the artist chooses.

It is the artist's choice of medium and form, along with his or her own technique, that make the completed image unique. Paintings of earlier cultural traditions along with the beliefs, practices, guilds, and institutions of individual states and monarchies largely defined the craft, form, imagery, and subject matter of paintings as well as their functional values such as ritual, devotion, decoration, inspiration, and education. As skilled artisans rather than creative artists, painters were employed more as skilled artisans. During the Renaissance in Europe and Asia, the notion of the fine artist developed. In the Renaissance, prominent painters enjoyed the social prestige of scholars and courtiers, establishing a more personal relationship with their patrons and creating their own designs, subjects, and imagery. Painters in Western society began losing their social standing and securing patronage during the 19th century.

The decline in patronage support prompted some artists to hold their own exhibitions and charge an entrance fee to compensate. They also toured their exhibitions to earn an income. The trend toward marketing has replaced the old (though less impersonal) demand for patronage, and its impact on art has probably been very similar. Art in the 20th century could generally only be exhibited in commercial galleries and public museums, but their works may occasionally have been reproduced in exhibition catalogues. A financial award or commission from industry or the state may also have been part of their assistance. The artists were, however, gaining the freedom to invent their own visual language and experiment with new materials and techniques. Many abstract paintings can be created by combining other media, including sculpture, with painting.

In other works, real objects are attached