What Art Can Do

What Art Can Do

25/11/2021
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Great art tells stories. It enables a conversation between people who live centuries, even millennia apart. It offers a journey through time and during the process conveys a picture of what has been done, thought, and believed throughout the centuries. In this sense, even a van Gogh is a kind of postcard, and the signature "Vincent" is the corresponding sender.

And contemporary art, with its new ideas and unusual views of the world, offers precisely what we go travelling for in the first place.

This is precisely why art is so well suited as a gift. And not only on festive occasions. Like a souvenir, a gift of art is a fitting invitation to the recipient to embark on a mental journey to distant places and times.