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Installation, Collaboration, Disruptive Colouration - artmarketblog.com
2008-06-07 15:54:00 Installation, Collaboration , Disruptive Colouration - artmarketblog.com Some of the most spectacular and engaging installation artworks that I have seen were created by the Australian collaborators Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy (http://www.claireandsean.com) both of whom are attracting significant attention from galleries all over the world. I caught up with Sean and Claire in March at the ...
How Artists Can Get Noticed NOW !!! Update 6 (May 2008)
2008-05-24 12:26:00 How Artists Can Get Noticed NOW !!! Update 6 (May 200 Time for another list of opportunities for artists to promote themselves and for art lovers to check out some talented artists. Artist Rising http://www.artistrising.com/ According to their website, Artist Rising (http://www.artistrising.com) invites you to mingle with emerging and established artists from around the world and browse ... More About: 2008
My Indian Art Adventure - artmarketblog.com
2008-05-16 06:06:00 My Indian Art Adventure - artmarketblog.com Today?s post is going to be a (very welcome) diversion from the time consuming and mind bending series I am doing on the reasons for the art market crash in the early 90?s. I will continue the series with my next post so don?t think that I have ... More About: Indian Art
Fossicking for Profitable Art - artmarketblog.com
2008-05-08 06:05:00 Fossicking for Profitable Art - artmarketblog.com Definition of Fossick: Pronunciation: ?fä-sik Function: verb Etymology: English dialect fossick to ferret out Date: 1852 1.Australian & New Zealand : to search for gold or gemstones typically by picking over abandoned workings 2. chiefly Australian & New Zealand : to search about : rummage Australian & New Zealand : to search for by or as if by rummaging : ferret ...
Top Ten Artists From Saatchi Online Gallery - artmarketblog.com
2008-04-21 15:55:00 Top Ten Artists from Saatchi Online Gallery - artmarketblog.com I was recently given another opportunity to choose ten artists from the 70,000 or so artists registered at the Saatchi Online Gallery to be featured in the Saatchi Gallery Magazine as well as choose one artist to be the Saatchi Online Critic’s choice. Take particular note ...
Exciting Online Art Auction News - artmarketblog.com
2008-04-19 16:09:00 Exciting Online Art Auction News - artmarketblog.com Amongst the plethora of emails that I received in my inbox this week were some rather interesting press releases announcing various developments in the cut throat world of online art sales. Firstly, Ebay has announced that they will stop offering the live auctions service which is used mostly by ...
How Artists Can Get Noticed NOW !!! Update 5 April 08
2008-04-05 01:37:00 How Artists Can Get Noticed NOW !!! Update 5 (April 08) Time again for another list of websites that can help an artist get noticed. If you are not an artist but are interested in art then you should enjoy checking out all the talent that is being shown on the websites below. ...
What Art Buyers Want - artmarketblog.com
2008-04-03 05:03:00 What Art Buyers Want - artmarketblog.com ing back to the time of the great classical master painters it is quite obvious that the focus of the art market at that time was the actual finished product. Technical skill, realistic depiction and an appropriate subject were the order of the day for greats such as Da ...
Primitive Artistic Genius Shines - artmarketblog.com
2008-03-26 01:08:00 Primitive Artistic Genius Shines - artmarketblog.com How many artists do you know that only began painting seriously at aged 79 and had become an internationally exhibited, world renowned artist by age 81. My guess is not very many. One artist who did manage to achieve this extraordinary feat is the Australian Aboriginal artist Emily ... More About: Primitive
Art Market vs. US Economy - artmarketblog.com
2008-03-17 01:28:00 Art Market vs. US Economy - artmarketblog.com With a US recession (A recession is a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months) seeming more and more likely, people are beginning to question how such an event would affect the current art market. My first reaction would be ...
Art Market Copyright Bullies - artmarketblog.com
2008-03-14 23:05:00 Art Market Copyright Bullies - artmarketblog.com Being on the front line of visual arts copyright means that I have the opportunity to experience the problems associated with this issue from both sides of the fence. The task of keeping both the artist and the client (image users such as dealers, galleries, cultural institutions, media etc.) happy is ...
Art Market Blog - Will New Online Art Auctioneer Succeed ?
2008-02-23 23:32:00 Art Market Blog - Will New Online Art Auctioneer Succeed ? The online fine art sales and art price data website artnet (http://www.artnet.com) has just announced that it will be introducing an online auction service due to start on the 25th of February. According to a press release by artnet ?The expensive modus operandi of conventional ...
Art Market Blog - Art Market Confidence Index Seriously Flawed
2008-02-15 22:59:00 Art Market Blog - Art Market Confidence Index Seriously Flawed On the 28th of January Artprice launched their Art Market Confidence Index ® which is apparently able to give a real time reading of people’s confidence in the art market for both the present and the future. According to the Artprice website “Artprice aims at conducting a survey ...
Art Market Blog - Collecting Artists? Books
2008-02-12 01:39:00 Art Market Blog - Collecting Artists ’ Books The old saying ‘a picture tells a thousand words’ could not be more true in the case of artists’ books, which are a relatively unknown and under appreciated collectible. As the name suggests, the general definition of an artist?s book is a work of art realised in ...
Art Market Blog - I?d Buy the Book but Not the Art
2008-01-31 01:49:00 Art Market Blog - I’d Buy the Book but Not the Art I attended an exhibition a few weeks ago of works by the Scottish artist Callum Innes which I decided to view while at a gallery for another exhibition and I have to say that the it was one of the most disappointing exhibitions that ...
Art Market Blog - Affordable and Collectible Artworks No. 5
2008-01-29 01:46:00 Art Market Blog - Affordable and Collectible Artworks No. 5 Digitally manipulated or enhanced images are becoming a more popular form of art with communities such as Renderosity, which is a huge online art community for artists of the visual mediums with special emphasis on computer-generated 3D graphics, proving testament to this. If you are ...
Affordable, Desirable and Collectible Artworks No.4
2008-01-18 23:16:00 Affordable, Desirable and Collectible Artworks No.4 This weeks affordable, desirable and collectable artwork is an absolutely brilliant photograph by the renowned Aboriginal Australian photographer Polixeni Papapetrou titled “The Wimera, 1864 #1″. I came across ths work while browsing through all the photographs available on the Apeture website and just couldn’t take my eyes off it. The extreme ...
Art Market Blog - Comparing the Art and Wine Markets
2008-01-17 01:24:00 Art Market Blog - Comparing the Art and Wine Markets The California Institute of Technology recently released the results of a study that they conducted into the effects of price on people’s perception of the quality and taste of a bottle of wine. Twenty volunteers were given a taste of five different wine samples which they ...
It?s True, 95% of Art is Rubbish !!!
2008-01-04 23:10:00 It’s True , 95% of Art is Rubbish !!! I am here today to tell you that 95% of art being sold on the art market is rubbish, yet only a small percentage actually gets recognised as being rubbish. The fact that there is so much shit art on the market could be a good thing for the ...
Art Market Blog - Ten Most Memorable Artists of 2007
2008-01-03 01:10:00 Ten Most Memorable Artists of 2007 The definition of memorable is ?worth being remembered or noted? which is a key factor in determining the future value of an artists work. When I refer to an artists work as being memorable I am not referring to artworks that have displayed in the media so much that ... More About: Market , Blog
How Artists Can Get Noticed NOW !!! Update 3
2007-12-24 06:51:00 How Artists Can Get Noticed NOW !!! Update 3 I receive many emails from artist’s asking how they can get noticed by galleries and dealers so I created this post to give artist’s some ideas for ways to promote themselves. The popularity of this post has motivated me to update it regularly as I come across ...
Art Market Blog - The Wall Wizard No. 1
2007-12-14 22:55:00 Art Market Blog - The Wall Wizard No. 1 I am starting a new weekly feature today called ‘The Wall Wizard’ which is my attempt at saving those poor defenceless walls that have to put up with being “decorated” with tacky 80?s exhibition prints in cheap dusty frames (YUK!!). Imagine how fantastic it would be to ... More About: The wall
How to Achieve Immortality by Buying Art
2007-12-11 00:52:00 How to Achieve Immortality by Buying Art Have you ever gone to a gallery and seen a plaque next to an artwork stating that it had been donated by so and so, or even better, gone to a gallery where a whole wing has been dedicated to a particular person or family. The reason that ... More About: Ality , Mort
The Pursuit of an Artificial Perfection in Art
2007-12-08 23:29:00 The Pursuit of an Artificial Perfection in Art If I was to ask you what is it that makes an artwork so special, so intriguing and unique? I would expect that pretty much everyone would say the time, energy, spirit, expression and effort that the artist has put into the work. The reason that artworks are ...
The Demise of the Art Critic
2007-12-06 23:26:00 The Demise of the Art Critic Prior to the in the late 19th century, before the emergence of modernism, when skill, technical prowess and accuracy were the factors used to determine how good a painting was, the role of the art critic was quite clearly defined because of the clearly defined factors and principles that were ...
Wearable Art - Wearing Your Art on Your Sleeve
2007-12-03 01:08:00 Wearable Art - Wearing Your Art on Your Sleeve I was recently introduced to the world of wearable art which, as the name suggests, is a form of art where garments, textiles, jewelery and other fashion accessories are created as original, individually designed forms of artistic expression. The conventional criteria for creating clothing such as comfort, ...
Recording and Protecting the Details of an Artwork
2007-11-24 14:00:00 Recording and Protecting the Details of an Artwork If you think about it, the physicality of an artwork is worth considerably less without all the associations that usually accompany an artwork such as: -the provenance (association with owners, places where the artwork has been exhibited and sold etc.) -the association with the artist that created the work -the association ... More About: Recording , Cord
Art Market Movements - The Korean Art Revolution
2007-11-02 13:20:00 Art Market Movements - The Kore an Art Revolution In the past Korea has typically been an isolated community that has been overshadowed by China and Japan but in the last few years Korea has come out of the shadows and begun to introduce their art to the world art market and the response has been nothing ... More About: Korean art
When Pornography is Pornography and Not Fine Art
2007-10-31 12:44:00 When Pornography is Pornography and Not Fine Art Most of you will be aware of the controversy surrounding the Nan Goldin photograph ?Klara and Edda Belly-Dancing? which is owned by Elton John and was recently removed from an exhibition by police after complaints were made regarding the sexual nature of the photograph which features two young ...
How to get an Interest Free Loan to Buy Art
More articles from this author:2007-10-29 12:03:00 How to get an Interest Free Loan to Buy Art Did you know that you can get an interest free loan to buy art? The Arts Council of England has recently announced a program called ‘Own Art’ which allows people to burrow money to buy a contemporary work of art. According to their website (http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/ownart/ind ex.html) the ... More About: Eres 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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