{"id":207,"date":"2011-08-23T19:49:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T09:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=207"},"modified":"2011-08-23T19:49:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T09:49:48","slug":"i-dont-know-anything-about-art-but-i-know-what-i-like-gelett-burgess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t know anything about art, but I know what I like. &#8211; Gelett Burgess"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"icon_link\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=207\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t\u00a0know anything about art, but I know what I like&#8221; .. ..\u00a0 Its\u00a0a phrase we hear often at the Gallery.\u00a0 Its not a bad thing at all, clients who say this\u00a0proceed to enjoy and purchase beautiful artworks\u00a0using\u00a0their instinct rather than\u00a0intellect.\u00a0 Thinking with their hearts and not their heads. These clients\u00a0leave with a piece that speaks to them\u00a0and fills a space in their homes and on their walls.<\/p>\n<p>Red Hill Gallery Director, Margaret Campbell-Ryder collects this way also.\u00a0 You often hear her cite stories of\u00a0artworks\u00a0in her home. The beautiful <a title=\"Loretta Blake\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/2007\/ARTISTS%20HTMS\/LorettaBlake.html\" target=\"_blank\">Loretta Blake <\/a>floral that hung in the room her mother slept in always brings such fond memories of how her mum loved to wake up to\u00a0this soft and gentle painting.\u00a0 Or how her naughty kitten Matisse loves to do his workouts at\u00a0 night, leaping from beautiful <a title=\"Stephen Glassborow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/2007\/ARTISTS%20HTMS\/StephenGlassborow.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Glassborow<\/a> bronzes, narrowly missing gorgeous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/2007\/ARTISTS%20HTMS\/KeithRowe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Rowe <\/a>glass to land in a cheeky heap on the floor.\u00a0 And I\u00a0am sure her recent purchase of a\u00a0painting of two cats, painted by the\u00a0members of\u00a0the Cerebal Palsy League, will always remind her of a fun night of art, fashion, champagne and laughs at the Arts for Artsake 2011 event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course there will always be people like us who love to learn more about what motivates an artist to create, how people react with colours, the history and theory of art, and explore it on all levels, but even then, what it all boils down to is listen to your heart and \u201cbuy what you love\u201d<!-- o ignored -->.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_215\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-215\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?attachment_id=215\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215\" class=\"size-full wp-image-215\" title=\"The Gallery Cats - Monet &amp; Matisse &quot;Sorry to wake you Matty!&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/MonetMatisse.jpg\" alt=\"The Gallery Cats - Monet &amp; Matisse &quot;Sorry to wake you Matty!&quot;\" width=\"760\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/MonetMatisse.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/MonetMatisse-300x103.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Gallery Cats - Monet &amp; Matisse &quot;Sorry to wake you Matty!&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=499790883388518\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=207\" send=\"true\" layout=\"button_count\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"150\" action=\"recommend\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share&#8220;I don&#8217;t\u00a0know anything about art, but I know what I like&#8221; .. ..\u00a0 Its\u00a0a phrase we hear often at the Gallery.\u00a0 Its not a bad thing at all, clients who say this\u00a0proceed to enjoy and purchase beautiful artworks\u00a0using\u00a0their instinct rather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=207\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}