Many car enthusiasts are becoming more and more aware of the beauty of automotive art. Such car lovers are the ones who drive the car art market. The automotive sculptural and painterly elements can be found somewhere between the necessities and luxuries of everyday life. Car enthusiasts appreciate the automotive splendor in terms of its form and shape, composition and line, texture and color, which had led them to appreciating automotive art as well, that is the work of those who can express such splendor in bronze, through a lens or on canvas. The appreciation has reached such an extent, that car art has been identified as its own genre, through the work of established artists. Other car art enthusiasts have established automotive art societies, to show that their passion goes beyond a mere hobby.

But automotive art appreciation to such an extent is relatively new. Only in the early eighties ahs car art become recognized as a field an d we can say that up to those days it didn’t even exist. The only form of automotive art back then was the individual work of a few artists who were so passionate about the subject that they started painting cars. The first form of an automotive art society was an alliance of relatively few artists, who wanted to be able to keep to date with what was new in this field and exchange ideas.

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