Why give a travel painting?
Travel is a theme that has inspired many artists throughout history. It is therefore not surprising that contemporary painters still exploit it to create magnificent works. The journey is not only a geographical one, around the planet.
It can also correspond to a peregrination in time and through the ages, or to a journey in our inner world. Common to all its meanings: movement, but also the courage to leave a known and reassuring place. Travel paintings convey all kinds of emotions. They are therefore excellent gifts for your family or friends.
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SoldSolveiga
Nocturne, Opus 6
80 x 80 cm2.120 €
Graffmatt
T3 combi
19 x 19 cm180 €Abbatucci Violaine
Enfin le jour du Départ
19 x 19 cm180 €Graffmatt
Urban van
36 x 36 cm495 €Escobar Francesca
Buddhist monk 2
36 x 36 cm495 €
Lopez Alfredo
les retrouvailles
100 x 100 cm3.150 €Escobar Francesca
Volando
36 x 36 cm495 €Graffmatt
One way
80 x 80 cm2.120 €Graffmatt
Tradesman van
25 x 25 cm285 €Graffmatt
Exploring Brooklyn
36 x 36 cm495 €
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PAINTINGS ABOUT TRAVEL, A FERTILE GROUND OF IMAGINATION FOR ARTISTS
The journey crosses the styles and periods of art history. It is particularly conducive to feeding the imagination of artists. Throughout history, many themes related to travel and exoticism have inspired them.
Italy and the Grand Tour. Travel to Italy took off in the seventeenth century, thanks to the creation of the Académie de France, located in Rome. It became fashionable in the eighteenth century, with the Grand Tour, a journey of initiation made by many artists, writers, collectors and art lovers. The objective of this trip was to discover archaeological sites (Pompeii or Herculaneum), ancient works, and those of the masters of the Italian Renaissance.
Souvenirs of this famous Grand Tour, urban panoramas of Italian cities are particularly sought after by travelers, and especially by British amateurs. Painters such as Volaire or Canaletto became famous for their countless views of Vesuvius or Venice. Others like to represent landscapes of the Mediterranean, such as Cecile Colombo.- Orientalism. The Orient became during the nineteenth century a crucial issue in the politics of European powers. The colonial expansion following Napoleon's campaigns in Egypt, the collapse of the great Ottoman Empire, or the French expedition of 1830 in Algeria, favored a renewed interest in these lands still unknown to Westerners.
Several painters and writers undertook trips to this distant East to bring back images and scenes that were conducive to artistic creation. Orientalist paintings illustrate a certain Western vision of the Orient, which mixes romantic and fantastical representation with ethnographic study. Many of the travel-themed paintings on our site relate to this movement. For example, this portrait of Istraille, entitled VARUN.
- Japonism. From the second half of the nineteenth century, Japanese art is in vogue in Europe. This situation is strongly linked to the political and economic opening of Japan, until then completely closed to the West. A treaty of friendship and trade was signed with France in 1958.
In the wake of the two universal exhibitions in London in 1867 and Paris in 1878, Japanese art aroused a real passion and influenced writers and artists. This was the birth of "Japonism", a trend that crossed the painting of the time and gave a new lease of life to all decorative arts. For example, this marine view by Julien Rey, entitled Voyage.
A way to dream and discover the world
The journey is not only a simple movement in space. We believe that its meaning is deeper. We can travel with our senses and get a change of scenery by staying in the same place, admiring a painting or a film, or reading a book.
Art has the power to make us discover unknown countries and to make us travel. Thanks to the power of a work of art, you can travel to distant countries in Africa or smell the perfumes of the Orient.
You can also travel through time and walk the cobblestone streets of ancient Rome or admire the hanging gardens of Babylon. Art also allows us to discover ourselves.
As the Roman philosopher Seneca said, "What is the use of traveling if you take yourself with you? It is of soul that one must change, not of climate". Without a plane ticket or train ticket, art can transport us to places we would never have dreamed of going in the depths of our soul, thanks to the multiple emotions it provokes in us.
Des tableaux de voyage aux prix abordables
Contrairement à une idée assez répandue, la plupart des œuvres d’art sont abordables. Le vieux principe qui affirme que l’art n’est réservé qu’à une élite fortunée n’est absolument plus une vérité. Il est aujourd’hui possible de trouver des œuvres uniques et originales d’une grande qualité artistique.
Certes, difficile de s’offrir du Anselm Kiefer, du Jeff Koons, ou encore du Banksy, mais vous pouvez toujours acquérir des œuvres de nombreux artistes contemporains de très bonne qualité, sans vous ruiner.
N’oubliez pas que la cherté d’une œuvre n’est pas un gage d’excellence. Ce sont vos émotions, votre ressenti et votre regard qui doivent vous guider dans le choix d’un tableau sur le thème du voyage. Vous êtes en fait le seul juge. Il ne sert donc à rien de dépenser des fortunes si vous pouvez facilement vous offrir une œuvre intemporelle et originale à un coût plus que réduit.
La plupart des artistes ne sont en effet pas vraiment médiatisés, tandis que leurs préoccupations sont éloignées du monde de la publicité et du business. Ils proposent donc leurs tableaux à des prix très raisonnables. Vous pourriez aussi réaliser une bonne affaire : un artiste inconnu aujourd’hui peut devenir demain un artiste mondialement connu.
OFFER A TRAVEL PAINTING: A GIFT FULL OF EMOTION
A travel-themed painting is a unique gift. What commercial object could create such an original impact, full of creativity and emotion? By offering such a unique and original work of art, you are letting the recipient know that he or she is precious and unique in your eyes.
This choice also shows that you have not chosen the easy way out: you have taken time to look for the gift that will be the most suitable. The pleasure of receiving this travel painting will be even greater. When you give a travel painting or art in general, you give a little bit of yourself. A gift received has indeed the imprint of the person who offers it. It will carry your signature for years to come.
Science teaches us that the emotions we feel in front of a painting are similar to those we feel when looking at a friend. You are not giving a simple gift, but a journey that is constantly renewed.
Such a gift invites you to discover distant countries and your inner world. It provokes relaxation and reflection, and improves daily life. A painting about travel offers you renewed emotions.
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