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Spring Green Lime Green and Fern Green are Hot

In the 70s, I had a hallway that had light green walls, white baseboards and door, and a black table. Flipping through a current “Better Homes and Garden” magazine, I discovered the same colors being used teeming them up with hot pink accessories or watermelon.

Trends come and go; they also get revived and recycled. The problem is, so does taste in fashion and art. Instead of buying art for aesthetic reasons or because of how it makes us feel, people buy art to decorate a room or add a pop of color. It has always been so. Our day and age is no different. At least there is a reviving interest in the arts, if only for its ability to shock or entertain. Street artists and their messages of activism and boldness are exposing more people to art and its impact on political action.

Chalk artists spend hours on three-dimensional “pop” art that is often a singular experience enjoyed by few. Temporary by nature, better ways are being found to save and preserve these artistic expressions by housing them in covered walkways and on interior walls. Acrylic paints enable bigger and broader coverage that is changing the urban scene and filling it with hope and color.

Artist Joe Bucci, who combines impressionist and expressionist styles was featured in the June “the Artist Magazine.” I was impressed with his colorful landscapes and his use of vibrant color.

Speaking about the changing art scene down through the centuries, Joe said: “one thing hasn’t changed: in order for a visual statement to become art, it must have an abstract quality. It’s not enough that a painting be a picture of something—it must communicate via composition, shape, color, rhythm, line, texture, mass and planes (visual or ‘plastic’ elements).

“The skill that causes an outstanding artist to rise above the pack is not the talent to draw or paint objects, but the ability to see relationships between those visual elements mentioned above.”