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As an artist, can you show us the evolution of your art, from beginner to gifted?Yes, that would be my pleasure to share that journey, started at age 5, through my whole life’s work. I have always made paintings, since I was about 3 years of age. During my 70+ years, I have made over 1,200 original works of art, and produced 55 different signed and numbered, hand embellished limited editions for global distribution totaling well over 3,200 certified prints.The first painting that my Dad kept in his possession and gifted me when he passed.1950195319551960’s1960’s196819681970’s1976197619781977198019811987198619811990’s1982–19991999 - 2006201220132017201720182019 - miniature 6″x 4″ Prismacolor2020 - March 25th ~ April 4th, Current work on the easel todayC@2020 - 28″x 22″ original oil painting on triple oil primed canvas by Loren D. Adams, Jr. This is a work in progress… my 120 ft. Brigantine sailing out of the morning sunrise: “The Gloria Lee” The progress as of Friday April 10th - Day 16 = ( 113 hours of easel time) so far.My own conception of a 120 ft. Brigantine, The Gloria Lee - with crew on board sailing in the sunrise…“Johnathan Livingston Seagull lives again…” ~ homage to Richard BachLoren Adams signing the finished painting after 183 hours of easel time 25 days after starting it.The Gloria Lee at Sunrise C@2020 - 28″x 22″ ( 711 mm x 559 mm ) original oil painting by Loren Adams © All Reproduction Rights Reserved“Somewhere in Time” - 22″x 28″ Recent original oil on triple oil primed portrait linenLoren Adams - 2019 Recipient of The Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award -http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release-s...

A dot matrix printer is still used today because it serves a very specific purpose and does so very, very cheap for the thing it does.1. Multiple pages printing:There are no printers that are cheap and can print on multiple papers at the same time. The dot matrix printer can be used to print one original and 3 carbon copies of the same document at the same time. This makes printing and keeping track of duplicates, triplicates and quadruplicates very easy.For example, the reservation chart that is stuck outside the train, has multiple copies. One copy goes to the head office, one to the ticket checker, one on the platform and one the train. The multiple copies are printed simultaneously and it is because of the dot matrix printer.​​The Indian management system and businesses rely heavily on duplicates and triplicates. Trust me when I say that.2. Versatile printing:There is no limitation on the paper dimension you can print on with the dot matrix printer. According to my estimates, Mumbai local train ticket is small enough that you can print upto six on a A4 page and the inter state tickets are such that one A4 can accommodate 3 tickets. One dot matrix printer can print the Local train ticket, the Inter state ticket, the official documents, and any other document you can think of.It can't print images but why do you need to print images in an office?It can print graphs and tables perfectly fine.​​3. Backwards compatibility:Indian railways system dates back to God knows when. They still have a MS-DOS style software they use to print out tickets. I doubt there is any other printer that can not only deal with that old software; but also be sure that it will work with the latest windows platform too, if they ever decide to upgrade.​4. Robust and heavy duty:The office printer has been there for 9 years. It had a full servicing done once when a lot of paper was getting jammed in it and it took 80 rupees. It was a one off problem because the clerk had pulled the paper out forcibly. That is the only problem it has had. It can print all day every day.5. Ease of use:These dot matrix printers are extremely easy to understand. You can easily open one up and reassemble it if you have an issue. When you think about it, most of the people working with these printers are not engineers. It has just two or three troubleshooting procedures that anyone can perform. There is no issue that cant be fixed.6. CostWe have one dot matrix printer in our office and it prints out roughly 1000 A4 size pages before running out of ink. It takes 20 rupees and 5 minutes to refill.We have one black and white laser printer . It can not print multiple pages. It jams if the paper is slightly folded. It chokes if we put in a smaller sheet. You can't troubleshoot it. The drivers on windows 7 are highly unreliable.It costs 300 rupees to refill. It cant do any of the above tasks.​A dot matrix printer can replace any other printer (for office uses); no other printer can replace the dot matrix printer.Edit: 1.5k upvotes in 3 days! Thanks a ton guys! Did not expect this kind of response!Edit 2: I am humbled. Thank you!Source: My experience.

Prior to WWII, many people didn’t put art on their walls - often it was only the upper classes, or what we might call the intelligentsia, who did. But “regular folks” often had empty walls, with perhaps a family photograph or two hanging. That’s it.But in the 20th century, both Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso produced huge numbers of handmade prints. They were less expensive than their oil paintings and tended to broaden the marketplace for fine art and bring the range of buyers down the ladder a bit in terms of class structure. They also broadened awareness of art, since they were first class self-marketers, appearing in Life and Time magazines and other mass-market publications.World War II brought another significant change, because in America, veterans were offered the benefits of the GI bill. These included college education and financing for homes. Suddenly people had homes they owned, of which they were very proud, and those homes had empty walls. Furthermore, they had college degrees. They were educated, and that education had often informed them of the importance of things like art.Almost simultaneously, in the 1960s, print technology made it possible to use silk screen technology, previously reserved for advertising specialties, to make large, high-quality, brilliantly colored, archival reproductions of fine art. This ushered in the age of mass-produced limited edition fine art prints, and the proliferation of galleries, which became a widespread new industry across the United States of America. Many galleries had as many as 20 or 25 different branches, all selling big, colorful prints to a voracious clientele who lived in a prosperous 60s economy and had learned that art was a good thing for an educated, upscale person to own.When the economy crashed some years later, most of those chain galleries collapsed. There are many fewer galleries now. However, the belief system about art on walls had been firmly implanted, and by now passed on to subsequent generations. Today, who doesn’t know that an empty wall should have art of some kind on it???