I had bad luck in the second tour of the national art gallery because the institution lacks security personnel and it is not possible to keep all the rooms open, as I commented in the first post the national art gallery of Venezuela has more than 30,000 square meters.

I took advantage of the time to take some pictures of some works that I did not photograph in the first visit, I could again evidence the radical contrast between classic Neo art and contemporary art.

First I went through a collection of very colorful contemporary art paintings made under mixed technique where I discovered that cutting saws, wood, plastic are involved is impressive as so many tools and varied materials have been involved in the creation of a painting, those days of painting on an easel with a canvas prepared with linseed, egg and other ingredients came to an end.

The painting became really something abstract, not in content, but in resources to obtain a final result that is far from reality and if we take into account that most of these creations are made with machines, the manual work continues to persist while the work done with the hands has disappeared, an intimate creation between the painting and the painter.

While I was walking from one room to another I found part of a collection of classic Neo art and with clear realistic examples, you can notice the dedication and study of techniques to handle the light as well as the perspective in a specific way for each composition.

The fine line between curatorial debates on how to catalogue a piece as a work of art remains a distinguishing feature of art before the contemporary period.

Can we really consider a work of art just because it is inside a gallery?

Galleries and museums are places that normalize art, that's why we have to be careful and not be fooled, unless we allow ourselves to be convinced by the postulates of different artists who explain incomprehensible works whose only consolation is that gallery owners and curators come to appraise each work of art for a very good amount of money that generates a positive impact on collector buyers and positions contemporary art in a privileged place where no one can afford the criticism to point out a particular work.

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