{"id":11136,"date":"2012-05-22T13:14:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T13:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/blog\/?p=11136"},"modified":"2012-05-22T13:14:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T13:14:41","slug":"art-work-work-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zatista.com.au\/blog\/2012\/05\/22\/art-work-work-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Work and the Work of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11137\" style=\"width: 358px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdayeveningpost.com\/2009\/04\/17\/in-the-magazine\/features\/art-work.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11137\" class=\" wp-image-11137 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/The-Window-Washer-by-Norman-Rockwell-308x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Window Washer by Norman Rockwell on Saturdayeveningpost.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nowadays many people consider work something done indoors, sitting down, surrounded by sophisticated technology doing the work for them.\u00a0 While the blue collar workforce is still going strong in this country, the fact is some of us will never experience the sort of physical labor far more prevalent in decades and centuries past.\u00a0 Thankfully, artists of many cultures and periods have made workers their subjects, celebrating and preserving all aspects of their lives.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11138\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Gleaners\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11138\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/The-Gleaners-by-Jean-Francois-Millet-400x320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Gleaners by Jean-Francois Millet on Wikipedia.org<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue-collar_worker\">Wikipedia<\/a> defines a blue collar worker as \u201ca member of the working class who performs manual labor. Blue-collar work may involve skilled or unskilled, manufacturing, mining, construction, mechanical, maintenance, technical installation and many other types of physical work. Often something is physically being built or maintained.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11139\" style=\"width: 357px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_Hine\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11139\" class=\" wp-image-11139 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/431px-Lewis_Hine_Power_house_mechanic_working_on_steam_pump-by-Lewis-Hine-287x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Power House Mechanic Working on Steam Pump by Lewis Hine on Wikipedia.org<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From the field laborers of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Millet\">Millet<\/a> to the industrial workers of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_hine\">Hine<\/a>, men and women at work have shown up in the work of many prominent artists. They not only document moments in history, they also offer the drama of people in specific settings and circumstances, showing both their psychological and physical sides in one composition.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11140\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/07\/the-end-of-the-14th-street-crosstown-line\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11140\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/14th-Street-by-Reginal-Marsh-400x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The End of the 14th Street Crosstown Line by Reginald Marsh on Ephemeralnewyork.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some noteworthy artists whose works later sold in the millions, sometimes posthumously, earned their living doing blue collar work. They resided in neighborhoods where they created fine art destined for the enjoyment of an educated elite, but in which their own economic status was closer to the struggling common man they lived alongside.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11141\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/product\/details\/20915\/Hand-Mining\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11141\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Hand-Mining-by-Darren-Thompson-400x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hand Mining by Darren Thompson on Zatista.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In more ways than one, artists can be considered part of the working class. Perhaps this is why the theme of the laborer continues to appeal, depicting direct involvement between the worker, the tools of their trade, and their environment, with the end result being something physically created where there was nothing before. \u00a0So the next time you buy original art on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/\">Zatista<\/a>, remember the work in \u201cwork of art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Brian Sylvester is a guest blogger on WallSpin, and an artist on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/store\/index\/Brian-Sylvester\">Zatista<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;men and women at work have shown up in the work of many prominent artists. 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