Journey with art

Painting of an art gallery of eighteenth century  Art market has started it's journey in the distant past. Art dealers and Artists have their own ways of making business. In the past artists had their work shops and they use to work in commissions. Many great artists had worked in the courts of the kings but in the eighteenth century it begins its journey in a very new format,to reach to the newly born elite class; art dealers and Artists  brought  a entirely new concept of selling the art products and to reaches the mass they Established art shops or art galleries.  One noble man of eighteenth century took revolutionary steps to establish an art gallery. Gersaint who had a shop of art pieces set the standards that would lead to the highly professionalized dealers of the future. He use to publish catalogs, had organized auctions with viewing periods and travel guide etc. In modern times the curators of art galleries have adopted the same type of approach to host an exhibiti

                                                                Meagre company 1633-1637 Frans Hals and Pieter Codde In 1885 Vincent Van Gogh wrote a letter to his brother Theo with a appreciative note about a painting " meagre Company " by Frans Hals and Pieter codde. He visited a newly opened  Rijksmuseum at that time. He wrote the letter in excitement and had expressed his observations and feelings. He wrote " It was unknown to me until now by Frans Hals and Pieter Codde, 20 or so officers full length. Have you noticed it??? in itself that painting alone makes the trip to Amsterdam well worth while, especially for a colourist "   In his letter Van Gogh maintained about a figure who is seen  in the extreme left of  the painting ."the figure is in grey from top to toe, he called it pearl grey. Which probably attained with orange and blue so that they neutralized each other" He also explained how well the artist had used colours and maintains ov