Mass produced art is tasteless and devoid of all character and serves only one purpose… to make your wall fit in exactly with everyone else’s who bought that same lithograph of some woodland scene, beachfront sunset, or dog’s playing poker. While the last is momentarily amusing, after about the first day it simply becomes annoying. Art is an expression of an artist at a particular moment in time. If you copy it, you demean it and lessen its worth. Give me a...

Antiques-

     Antiques are mostly dust catchers- good for little else other than requiring periodic dusting and cleaning. There are exceptions that I do enjoy, though, either for their aesthetic appeal or because of their history. Some token that my children gave me for example, or an item that belonged to an ancestor of mine. A pellet-rifle that was made in Czechoslovakia that belonged to my grandfather, who died before I was born, would fit into this category, as w...