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Thank you for choosing to visit J D Pierce
Gallery of Fine Art!
In order to
better serve the needs of our clients, The Pierce Gallery will
be relocating to North Dallas. In the interim, please contact
J.D. via the website "Contact Form" or his cell phone (817)
517-1696
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We are excited about our new website and
are adding new things daily.
Please feel free to browse around
and come back often for new artwork and information.
JD Pierce Gallery of
19th and 20th Century Fine
Art in Dallas, Texas offers original works by Antoine
Blanchard, Jules Herve, Jean Rigaud, Andre Gisson, Lucien Delarue,
Jean-Pierre Dubord, Laurent Vialet, Barbara Jaskiewicz, Niels Walseth, Joan Colomer, and
many others.
 Although the
art collections of monarchs and aristocrats were often
available for public viewing for part of the time, at least
by the middle and upper classes, the art museum is
considered a fairly modern invention, the first publicly
owned and easily accessible one being the Louvre in Paris,
which was established in 1793, soon after the French
Revolution when the royal collections became state property.
Art is an
application of human creativity that has some form of
appreciative value, usually on the basis of aesthetic value
or emotional impact. The modern use of the word "art", which
rose to prominence after 1750, is commonly understood to be
skill used to produce an aesthetic result. Artistic works
have existed for almost as long as humankind, from early
pre-historic art to contemporary art.
 The second, more recent, sense of the word “art” is roughly
as an abbreviation for creative art or “fine art.” Here we
mean that skill is being used to express the artist’s
creativity, or to engage the audience’s aesthetic
sensibilities, or to draw the audience towards consideration
of the “finer” things.
The ultimate derivation of 'fine' in 'fine art' comes from
the ancient Greek philosophy of Aristotle, who proposed four
causes or explanations of a thing. The Final Cause of a
thing is the purpose for its existence, and the term 'fine
art' is derived from this notion. If the Final Cause of an
artwork is simply the artwork itself, "art for art's sake",
 and not a means to another end, then that artwork could
appropriately be called 'fine'. The closely related concept
of beauty is classically defined as "that which when seen,
pleases". Pleasure is the Final Cause of beauty, and so is
not a means to another end, but is an end in itself.
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