Costa Rica Art Blog September Archive

Celebration of Art and Life: A Costa Rican Contemporary Art Gallery's 20th Year Anniversary

09/30/08 22:46

Art is a way to express and showcase different emotions, talent, perspectives of an artist towards himself and the world around him. The emergence of art galleries has been popular in major populous countries but not in Costa Rica. One artist dared to break this barrier by opening a contemporary art gallery featuring his works and other collaboration with artists twenty years ago. Now the art gallery is celebrating its 20th anniversary, to find out who is the man behind the gallery and more can be seen here.

Link: Contemporary Gallery Celebrates 20 Years in Costa Rica | Costa Rica Travel News

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The Glamour of Handicrafts

The right home decorations always adds up to the warmth and homy-feel to a house. Thus, finding the right decorations for a house is what a majority of homemaker is looking for.

One site provides genuine and masterfully designed handicrafts for home decoration, this is the Mot Mot Souvenir & Gallery in Quepos, Costa Rica. For more selections of decorations and souvenirs you can visit them here.

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Buy Indigenous Costa Rican Art Online

It probably sounds as if indigenous Costa Rican art is hard to find. After all, these are rare relics of Costa Rica's past.

However, a way is now possible to get some piece of Costa Rican indigenous art without the hassle, and that is through online shopping. No need to go to the shops; it's all at the tip of your fingertips.

Link: Galerķa Namu Costa Rican Indigenous and Folk Art Online Shopping

Coffee Art

Costar Rica - CAFEGRAFIA, a company specializes in research of using brewed in coffee art.

With 14 years of trial and error they have developed different methods of using coffee as main ingredient in artworks based on paper, wood, ceramics, stone, metal and even the edible ones.

CAFEGRIA also discoverd that coffee can be used as developing agent for silver salts and invention of coffee pigment prints.

For more information, click on the link below

Link: Coffee Art

Artists in the Costa Rican Scenes

An artist needs an inspiration. He needs an inspiration from which he can draw the images and the perseverance to draw out art from the subject.

Fortunately, the scenes around Costa Rica is enough to make any artist become inspired with his craft. The fishermen at the sea, the children playing in the gardens, the expats walking along the coast, the animals in the nearby trees--they are enough to create works of art that can be truly sais as Costa Rican.

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