Have Some Art with That Wine?
Wine and art make an incomparable pairing. That must be why it’s always served at art gallery openings. In fact, isn’t that why there’s such a high attendance at openings? Clearly art lovers have another love: (free) wine. Gallery owners may have the last laugh, though, as it may convert those art lovers into art buyers.
Edvard Munch: Self-Portrait with a Bottle of Wine
Famous artists and yet-to-be-famous artists alike have painted wine; and they’ve been inspired by wine while at their easels. I’ve painted with a weekly art group that served wine to help the paint flow. It did, too.
Down East Wine by Jann Alexander © 2013
Photographers are smitten with wine, too; the first pour of the day often merits a photograph, as this one did for me on a sunny Maine summer afternoon at a shady porch table.
How’s your art influenced by wine? Is your collecting influenced by wine? Are your art sales influenced by wine? Think wine’s a time-honored subject for art?
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