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Daily Painters Invoke Social Change through Dailypainters.com

2008-11-15T04:05:00.000-08:00

We must think deeper about the social dimension of this new daily painting virtual art culture. People are bombarded by Internet images daily and have become descensitized to the intended messages. Digital facsimiles of paintings by artists, however, are inspiring constructive dialogues due to their intrinsic spiritual nature and refreshing sincerity. The images are socially uplifting, and are providing people with a pleasant escape from the noise so they may once again think. The images that are being emailed daily to 1000's globally from www.dailypainters.com are instrumental in invoking hope for social change through informed discussion about art and life. Parents are presenting these daily painted virtual images to their children who are making up stories through associating the images with their own experiences in the real world. They are serving as a virtual storybooks.

Hall Groat II
Publisher
New York Art Guide

Paintings Connecting People Globally through DailyPainters.com

2008-11-14T05:54:00.000-08:00

What is daily painting? For many artists it is the discipline of completing a single painting each day in solitude, away from the confusion of life. It’s an essential time each day that the painter both embraces and savors. Many regard it as a meditative “expression of the moment” and enlightenment. The completion of the painting in a single session is a means of chronicling one’s spiritual diary. The ensō. Painters globally are now using cyberspace in new and creative ways in order to share these personal moments with people residing in other parts of the world that may be marginalized geographically or socially. The painting and the creative act are being digitized and presented together as one to divergent cultures. Creativity is being channeled into a more holistic expressive art form that is reaching millions of people. The modern day “blog,” coupled with video sharing technologies has broadened the tradition of painting into a new communicative virtual reality world. Cyberspace is quickly evolving and the potential social ramifications are not completely understood. What we do know however is that artists are strategically working together globally to use these new technologies in a manner that is promoting constructive dialogue about art and life. These conversations about paintings are “building new bridges through breaking boundaries.” Perhaps this new model for solidarity will inspire others to embrace the mystical healing nature of painting.

By Hall Groat II
President, New York Art Collection
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The last print version of the New York Art Guide was in 2001.

32,000 Years of Daily Painting

2008-11-14T05:34:00.000-08:00

It's remarkable to realize that humankind is still compelled to "paint pictures of things" just like early man once did within caves 32,000 years ago. The first paintings are believed to have been in Grotte Chauvet, France, and now today, digitized facsimiles of paintings are communicating messages within cyberspace to a global audience. Early humans associated painted images with the spirits of the animals they hoped to consume for their next meal, which for many now, still holds true, 32,000 years later. I wonder if 10,000 years from now humans will possess the same instinctual desire to express themselves through the same Red Ochre paint that was passed on to us from our ancestors in Grotte Chauvet, France? The spirit of painting continues to breath new life, despite those throughout history who have prophesied its demise.

By Hall Groat II
President, New York Art Collection
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Chauvet Cave in southern France