Art Connection.

With little money to spare for the art world, I think potential buyers are looking for timeless pieces that are show evidence of skill... making beauty a very lucrative theme.

Brad Knunkle and Felix Mas are examples of contemporary artist who are selling their work despite the economic downturn. Both paint with the spirit of Klimpt; both in theme and technique with the use of metallic pigments and inspiring female subjects.

Klimpt.

"We want to declare war of sterile routine, on rigid Byzantinism, on all forms of bad taste...Our succession is not a fight of modern artists against old ones, but a fight for the advancement of artists against hawkers who call themselves artists and yet have a commercial interest in hindering the flowering art"

This is a quote from Hermann Bahr, the founder of a group of artist known as the "Secessionists", Klimpt being one of the main contributors.  The Successionists expressed the theme of femme fatal, strength in beauty (the same narrative of today's fashion).

Portrait of Fritza riedler 1906

Felix Mas.

Felix Mas

Brad Kunkle ( http://www.bradkunkle.com/)

Brad Kunkle.

These are my favorite contemporary artists at the moment. Both Mas and Knunkle's work capture a personal moment of romance...which is one of the most powerful places of female strength.

Be inspired.