Discover Stunning Paintings for Sale in Bengaluru – How You Can Transform Your Spaces, with our Customized Abstract Paintings for Homes in Bengaluru

 Introduction – The beauty of experiencing an abstract painting

When we buy an abstract painting especially a canvas painting, it is of paramount importance that we understand that every work of art has a lifespan to stay beautiful by itself, is what I feel. Every work could look eternally fresh, new and beautiful when conserved properly and restored time to time based on its respective requirements.

What matters most though, is its day to day maintenance and environment, for example if the abstract painting is out in the air, open to elements, it is going to weather faster irrespective of whether it has varnish or lacquer or any protective coating on it, as compared to an abstract painting that is indoors in a protected environment with just ample, good air circulation to keep it from moisture and fungus etc. There are multiple ways in which we can protect and upkeep the special pieces we buy especially when it comes to art at home, canvas paintings in particular here.

Abstract paintings in Bengaluru, whether canvas paintings in Bengaluru or sculptures or prints (printmaking) for that matter, are all in consequence to their relationship with the space they’re in and in dialogue with the people inhabiting the space. At our Sparsha Art Studio in Bengaluru, we feel the relationship between a buyer and the bought art is extremely special, nuanced and intimate in a veery subconscious, visceral way. Which is why, it becomes a priority of utmost importance to take care of the abstract paintings for home and keep it looking eternally wonderful!

Why it is important to take care of abstract paintings/ canvas paintings?

 It becomes exceedingly important to care for abstract paintings and especially canvas paintings because when we regularly dust the frames or wipe the frames of the canvas paintings to avoid accumulating too much dust, the colour of the frame too stays fresh, plus, when there is a well-done painting which is varnished and made with premium quality materials like how we do at our Sparsha Art Studio in Bengaluru, the painting itself on the surface requires no maintenance because the pores are sealed to not let any dust enter the painting or sit on it.

Then, when in heavy moisture weather or consistently hot/cold weathers it is advisable to just air the backs of the canvasses to ventilate their wooden spines and make sure that there is no fungal growth at the back of the canvas due to moisture collecting between the wall and abstract painting/ canvas painting’s frame and so on. This keeps the health of the painting and after many-many years when the painting evidently and eventually starts to fade or in case of oil paintings, when the linseed oil decides it is fully oxidised and cracks on the surface, that’s when better preservation and restoration can help to bring it back to full life.

Preservation and Restoration, what they require?

Both preservation and conservation of not only abstract paintings or canvas paintings in Bengaluru but everywhere else too and of all types, require expertise in the field with experience too and training knowledgably to handle different paintings in the ways most aptly required for them respectively. When it comes to preservation, it could be a more short-term job of controlled environments time to time as the external environments change or restoring the spaces around works to keep the works in ample condition or to make sure the deterioration of old works slows down if they’re impossible or very difficult to restore.

Depending on their natures, materials and complexities that come with multiple other factors, preservation or restoration is of course decided and executed upon them. Now these factors could simply be mediums, colours, basically, composition of that which was used in the canvas painting for example or the stage it is at now, examined and worked on.

For example an abstract painting, canvas painting, which was created in say the 1970’s could be conserved at this point in the 2020s but an abstract painting, canvas painting created in say the 1930s will require restoration by this point if parts are fading or cracking or majorly changing colour. As we set the board earlier, preservation deals more with the external factors around the abstract painting and maintaining the abstract painting itself in a good condition. But, it very rarely has to do with tampering with the very surface of the work itself unless it is going into re-stretching or re-framing.

When it comes to restoration, the methods used could vary based on what is supposed to be the outcome of the restoration. Is it damage recovery, or it is a restoration fully to make the work look timeless or is it fading patch restoration etc. There are therefore multiple methods to both, conserve and restore art based on the specific requirements to each work as to why it was made, when it was made, what does it convey and what is its impact.

All of this should only be enriched if not the same after these processes on the abstract paintings and canvas paintings in particular because one thing that becomes simply unforgivable is if after conservation or without conservation i.e. to say due to lack of conservation, the art work depletes or, the condition deteriorates and goes rot.

In case of restoration if the character, nature of expression, legitimate usage of the particular colour to its specifics changes or more technical aspects such as its texture, stroke work, tone and much more change – changing the work in maybe a minute but definitely different way loosing that nuance burying that memory in time for nobody to discover easily or accessibly. This is why restoration experts also have historic or contemporary art periods that they study and specialise in to restore these works to perfection with no compromise, error or scope for another attempt on the same painting.

 Lifespans of Paintings and Appropriate Conservation

The lifespans of abstract paintings especially canvas paintings vary based on multiple factors. Some of them being:

1. The quality of the canvas, pigments (paints), water, oils, varnish and so on that is to say the materials used in the paintings
2. The conditions that the canvas paintings or abstract paintings in particular, are created in as well as more significantly, the conditions they are bought into and kept – for example, we at the Sparsha Art Studio in Bengaluru, create acrylic paintings in Bengaluru as well as Oil paintings and these are all canvas paintings in Bengaluru created under pleasant weather conditions in a well-ventilated art studio in Bengaluru and maintained meticulously until sale.

Now, once the sale of the canvas paintings happens, this best condition of the work in which it is handed over could change over time if the work is exposed consistently, long-term to the elements as in harsh sun, bold temperatures, heavy moisture, drastic temperature changes rapidly or even rains and winds directly if outdoors or installed closed to doors facing outdoors in exposure.

1. The condition of the environment / space the abstract paintings or in general, canvas painting is kept in even in terms of lighting, good walls, hygienic surroundings and proper handling for example – do not touch the paintings or do not put them in vulnerable places where something could spill, splash or hurdle it’s surface basically.
2. The nature of the art work itself, for example if it is plaster of paris in paintings could last many years indoors but can easily accumulate mold or dirt / dust if placed in a natural environment or in exposure to it. But, acrylic and oil, that is not the case and in mixed media works, each material will age differently making parts of the paintings look different which is a fascinating thought to think of, considering today’s days rapid changes in conditioning as well as pace. Therefore, the nature of materials too matter to determine their lifespans.
3. The period the abstract paintings or canvas paintings were created in is also a major player. For example, the pigments when Jan Van Eyck painted, were way higher and way more supreme in quality and authenticity than we have today with chemicals and mechanical reproductions and what not. It was all produced and mixed in organic methods with authentically sourced pigment powders and various other oils and chemicals that artists would mix manually to arrive at the colour they wanted in its viscosity, tone and thickness.

Therefore, these are a few factors that determine the lifespans of abstract paintings especially canvas paintings. Speaking of the lifespans of acrylic paintings and oil paintings, we have only lesser than 90 years of history with acrylic paint commencing in 1930s pretty much until now and oil is of course centuries old medium so we evidently do know how long oil paintings can last, which is for centuries and more centuries with conservation and the right restoration. We will need to still figure out according to me as the decades go by, as to how long, really a good acrylic painting, appropriately conserved and upkept can last without restoration first and then of course with restoration. But, maybe one century for sure as of now for acrylic paintings especially as earlier mentioned, canvas paintings.

Inheritance, Auctioneering, Heritage and History – An insight into timelines in lifespans of abstract paintings and canvas paintings

Of Inheritance first – we will mention here, the example of Ms. Marina Picasso, granddaughter of the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso:

“Earlier this year, art world was informed that Marina Picasso, granddaughter of the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, was planning to sell her artwork from her private collection left by her grandfather. First information about the sale hinted that Ms. Picasso would be parting with seven exquisite paintings as well as the villa she inherited, La Californie, which together have an estimated value of $290 million. Few days ago, however, New York Times released a story reporting that the collection Ms. Picasso owns includes around 10,000 original Picasso works she inherited from her estranged grandfather.” – Source: Widewalls Magazine – 7^Th February, 2015 – By Sanja Lazic

Of auctioneering second, we will mention here the compiled list of most expensive paintings sold in auction last year in 2023 as per the Art News Report: https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/market/2023-most-expensive-works-sold-auction-1234691686/gustav-klimts-dame-mit-facher-lady-with-a-fan-1917-18-94-3-m/

“In 2022, the bar rose once again: the least expensive piece in the top 10, a work by René Magritte, took in $79.8 million.

Now, that bar has lowered, with a significant drop in the prices of the most expensive works sold at auction in 2023.

Compare this year’s 10th most expensive work to that of 2022. Henri Rousseau’s Les Flamants (1910) sold this past May for $43.5 million, setting a new auction record for him. That’s a little more than half the price of the Magritte sold in 2022.

Signs of a downturn are evident in other ways too. This year, four of the works that generated the year’s top 10 prices overall went for under $50 million—many fewer than last year. Then, consider the most expensive work sold at auction: a Picasso painting that took in $139 million. In 2022, an Andy Warhol “Marilyn” sold for $195 million. That’s a 29 percent difference.

The total figures for the top 10 lots exhibit a similar loss—$660 million in 2023 versus $1.1 billion in 2022.” – Source: Article by the Editors of ArtNews – 29^th December 2023.

Of Heritage third, we will mention here the story of “White Center”, a painting by the legendary Mark Rothko which is in fact called the Rockefeller Rothko because Mr. David Rockefeller bought it in 1960 and owned it until 2007 when it went on auction and broke multiple records. Moreso, because of the heritage of the Rockefeller Family as heritage and then was bought by the Qatari Royal family whose palace is now its home.

“Mr. Rockefeller has owned the painting since 1960, when he bought it for less than $10,000 from Eliza Bliss Parkinson, the niece of Lillie P. Bliss, one of the three founders of MoMA. Mrs. Parkinson had bought the painting from Rothko in 1960 through the artist’s dealer, Sidney Janis.” – Source: The New York Times – March 22^nd, 2007

“The work was sold in May 2007 by Sotheby’s on behalf of David Rockefeller to the Royal family of Qatar; Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and his wife, Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al-Missned. The painting sold for 72.84 million (USD), setting the record of the current most expensive post-war work of art sold at auction.” – Source: Mark Rothko Org – 2021.

https://www.markrothko.org/white-center/

Of history fourth, here we will mention ‘Guernica’. This painting establishes that the history of works too, in incorporated aspects such as ‘Guernica’ as a painting by Picasso has immense impact on the world in more than just a few ways with depth and effect.

“Eighty years ago, Pablo Picasso received a commission that would forever change his career.

The Spanish Republic—then in the throes of the Spanish Civil War, against future dictator Francisco Franco—had asked Picasso, among several other prominent artists, to create a painting for its pavilion at the Paris International Exposition of 1937. The work he made was Guernica, the now-legendary, mural-sized painting inspired by the bombing of a small Basque town, which now resides at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.”

“On April 26, 1937, Franco ordered the Nazi Condor Legion (loaned to Franco by Germany) to drop bombs over the small town of Guernica. It was a market day; civilians, predominantly women and children, were convened outdoors in public squares.”

“Though Picasso was already a known leftist—he had created a pair of etchings, titled the Dream and Lie of Franco (1937), which were reproduced and sold in order to raise funds for the Republic—the bombing struck him with particular force. And on May 1st, he took to his studio on Rue des grands Augustins, and began new sketches for the commission.”

“Guernica portrays a frenzied tangle of six human figures (four women, a man, and a child), a horse, and a bull; the action transpires within a claustrophobic, low-ceilinged interior, below an overhead lamp that appears to burst with light. While, as Wagner points out, hints of Picasso’s original composition (the interior of an artist’s studio) remain, the scene can clearly be read as the emotional and physical aftermath of war and violence.” – Source: Artsy – By Casey Lesser – June 12^th 2017

These are a few fundamentally, long-lasting impacts that one painting can have in its lifetime having various generations experience it.

 Methods of Art Conservation and Art Restoration

There are multiple methods to conserve and restore abstract [paitnings and in general, canvas paintings

Some of the techniques or methods to conserve and restore art works / canvas paintings in particular, are as follows:

1. Structural Treatments
2. Consolidation or Paint Stabilisation
3. Varnish Removal
4. Surface Dirt / Dust Removal
5. Retouching Losses or Infilling
6. Inpainting
7. Relining

Let us look at each method briefly to understand the process and consequence –

1. Structural Treatments – Repairs damages in the canvas paintings caused by pressure, moisture, heat, such as dents, faded patches, structural bends or undulations on the surface. Repairing tears, holes in the canvas or chippings of wood, re-stretching or underlining inlaid fabric layers in the linen and so on.
2. Consolidation or Paint Stabilisation – Repairs damages occurring over time such as the cracking of paint due to changing moisture and humidity conditions. Bringing the status of paint flakes back to a clear layer or clear layers of painted medium using consolidate (an adhesive based on a few different compositions) which binds the dry flaky parts of the paint back to the underlying layers of paint or the canvas itself restoring it back to its earlier good condition as well as possible or rather as much as possible to an authentic extent. The free passing of air from the front of the canvas to the back of the canvas through cracks or free standing flakes is thus stopped, pores sealed and painting rearing to go once again.
3. Varnish Removal – Over time varnish has a tendency to yellow ansd warm-coat the entire painting as paintings have been varnished with varnish – compatible or not – which is why it is important that we keep in mind to use the solvents that de-yellow the painting removing the varnish to reveal the original colour quotient of the work diligently. It needs to be done by the professionals who know the science of solvents particular to that paintings so as to identify solvency and action / reaction properly for the best consequence.
4. Surface Dirt / Dust Removal – Cleaning off the dust accumulating not only over the surface of the painting over time but also the frame as well as the canvas spine and frame due to moisture over time and changing temperatures over time constantly. This can be done using certain brushes or even a specific technique of vacuuming to remove dirt and also water cleaning for safe soluble dust.
5. Retouching Losses or Infilling – As the name of the method itself suggests, specific chemicals and pigment combinations and compositions are used to fill in certain faded patches., or losses in damage even as small as in millimetres are restored to keep the painting in the best possible condition.
6. Inpainting – Similar to infilling but limiting the restoration to just the spot of loss never repainting or overlapping over existing opain layers however they may be – this can be done using many techniques such as pointillism, trateggio, rigattino, and deceptive techniques as it is a game of tiny bits in paintings and is an exceedingly tediously detailed restoration process.
7. Relining – It is a process where in case of tears or patch of canvas hanging, cut, damaged or missing, is lined with a canvas over it or is lined across on the same level as the rest of the existing canvas and then painted, created and restored onto the same. A work of extreme detail, skill and expertise. For everything to just match and look like one painting with no patches, cuts or attachments revealed.

Therefore, these are some methods by which we can conserve and restore our abstract paintings, our canvas paintings and we can keep our paintings carefully, we can keep them beautiful!

The secret lies not in the painting but in the way we see it, in the way we experience it and the best part being there is often no tangible reason why we buy a work of art. It’s all in the intricacies of emotion, nuance and eternal beauty!

About Sparsha By Radhika

Exploring possibilities through a variety of these artistic doors, at Sparsha by Radhika, we explore possibilities with concept and feeling to embed memorable experiences for our clients’ spaces to be energized in the most effective and special ways with our abstract paintings in Bengaluru. We work Pan India and Abroad.

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