Can Art in Isolation help us through Covid-19?

The Need For Art During Isolation.

During this time when many people have more time at home this has no doubt created a great opportunity to find out more about art and artists. This may be from learning how to draw and paint to spending more time on your already established art career. So many amazing blogs and sites have appeared on social media and through art PR, from both individual artists and groups working together to help sell art as well as trying to give great advice and tips to all budding artists out there, whatever their age.

The Clore Gallery – Tate Britain #1 (Artist Brian Parker)

This is certainly a time to fully embrace our creative minds whether through art, dance or music. Art demands a certain amount of ‘me time’ so that we can either express ourselves through our individual artistic talents or by our choices of art to admire, buy, read about or simply view, the ‘benefits of solitude’ as the Tate said. With galleries and exhibitions now closed we cannot indulge in the pleasures of viewing in the flesh, however so many galleries are now offering amazing virtual tours and the art PR that has surrounded this has been wonderful.  Although of course it is impossible to recreate the complete senses we feel when we view art, museums are doing their best to be digitally creative. The Royal Academy has some wonderful virtual tours where you can still experience the exhibitions, The Fitzwilliam in Cambridge has been giving us videos on how they are actually managing to look after all the artefacts and artworks during this time, with regular temperature monitoring both with Museum staff and online and promise many more videos and gallery tours. However of course for the smaller galleries this is a brutal time, with many drastically affected by the present situation. Hopefully landlords will be considerate with rent and the government will do their best to help all these smaller galleries and museums survive this storm and make it through.

A world without art would and could never happen – we will get back to the absolute joys of our art world and hope that all the smaller galleries, artists and exhibitions are supported and make it through too and in the meantime we must all work together to be creative and imaginative and whilst exploring art digitally also including it even more in our daily lives at home.

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/talking-point/making-art-isolation

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/picasso-and-paper-virtual-exhibition-tour