Imagetrove.com was formed in late 2001 by the Owners of
Professional Art And Framing Services Inc. (P.A.A.F.S Inc.)
in order to present original art to the public by real living artists.
Art galleries and picture frame shops often present to the public artwork
which is manufactured and marketed by large national publishers.
These works are either reproductions of works in museum collections
or contemporary artists who are in a particular publishers stable of
contracted artists. There are any number of such publishers and there
are of course many works of art to choose from. Sometimes artwork is cunningly
crafted to appeal to the heartstings or the common taste just like any
other consumer product. However, you the art viewing and art purchasing
public tend to get the same images over and over or a homogenous collection
of work representing the taste and sometimes political or cultural views
of those publishers.
What you do not see are the thousands of artists who are not part of
that corporate mechanism and we are all the poorer for it.
Therefore our mission is to bring to you the work of local, regional,
national,
or internations artists who are not part of that homogenous corporate
machine,
and to let you decide if they are fabulous and talented or merely
adequate.
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What is art?
However you define it, art is about human artifacts that communicate
ideas across time and space to others unkown and unknowable to the
maker.
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