Online Art Gallery

As compared to the traditional art shops, an online art gallery offers easy accessibility and more variety.( www.artnishe.com )Traditional art shops can be very difficult to access for people who stay in far-off places. Traveling all the way to a good art shop is not only expensive and tiring but also is time consuming. Furthermore, due to lack of enough space, an art retailer may not afford to offer a wide variety of paintings to the customers to choose from. To be precise, no matter how much space an art retailer has, it can never match the virtual capacity of a good online art gallery. ( www.artnishe.com )

Choosing the right piece of painting is also a lot easier with an online art gallery. ( www.artnishe.com ) The different genres of art, and paintings of respective artists are listed category wise in the site itself, which, on clicking, takes the user to the related paintings. Even a confused visitor can get his kind of paintings in no time with the search option that lets one type in the keyword and search for a particular art piece. www.artnishe.com


Once the painting has been chosen, it’s the time to buy it. To buy a painting from an online art gallery, all that is needed is just a single click of the mouse button.( www.artnishe.com ) Just fill in the order form with the payment and address details and leave it to the art gallery to have it delivered at your doorsteps.
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The Art of Investing

For any art enthusiast, picking the right painting to invest in is a very detailed and rigorous event. If you are spending thousands of dollars for a work of art you want to pick that perfect piece that fits into your home and inspires you. When you invest in Fine Art you are not only investing in the moment but into the future as well. Not only do you want the painting you buy to be appealing in the present but down the road when you are looking to sell your painting to the next lucky buyer. So how do you make a decision as big as this without any guidance? If you follow the tips below you will be sure to pick just the right painting for you that will have value for years to come.

Tip #1: Buy a painting you like. The first tip that I offer you is to buy a painting you like. Do not simply look for a painting that will bring you the most profit in the future but buy something that you will be able to look at day after day and feel a connection to. Philip Guston, an American expressionist artist once said, “Look at any inspired painting. It’s like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.” This is the feeling you want to search for when finding the painting to mount on your wall. There will be no greater disappointment then if you wake up one day to find that the attraction to your painting has disappeared.

Tip #2: Look for good quality and subject matter. Just because a painting is by a particular artist, don’t assume it will be easy to turn over when the time comes to sell it. Make sure the painting is of good quality and subject matter. This assures you that, in the long run, you will be able to sell the painting to another art seeker and get a great return.

Tip #3: Ask the right questions. Make sure you ask the right questions — Who is the artist? How important is the art? What is its provenance, history, and documentation? Or more simply, where has the art been and who has owned it? This is the most important thing you need to know. An art work’s provenance provides information about the origin of the work and its previous owners. Provenance serves as the key evidence of a work's authenticity and its rightful ownership.

Tip #4: Make sure the asking price is fair. You want to make sure that the asking price is fair. Compare and contrast your art to records of public and private sales of related works of art that have already sold. You can obtain price information on works of recognized artists from the art departments of most major institutional and public libraries, art reference bookstores, the internet, certain art galleries, and auction sales records (the most important auction records for this purpose are works of art that are similar in size, subject matter, medium, date executed, and other specifics to the one you are interested in buying). You also want to research who you are buying from. Whether it is from an art gallery, art dealer or auction, make sure they are reputable and have a knowledgeable staff to help you out. Ask to see recent sales results for art by the artist you're interested in. Make sure that the artist has a good track record of selling works of art similar to the piece you are looking to buy for a comparable amount to what you're being asked to pay.

Tip #5: Insure your art. After you make your big purchase, make sure to insure your art for its full replacement value. Remember to insure for casualty loss (fire, flood, etc.) as well as for theft. Continually have your work of art revalued by a certified appraiser to be sure you will be able to recover its full value upon its loss.

I wish you the best of luck on your exciting journey ahead.

By Dan McDougall

Language of art

What did the thinker, the poets,and artists of so many different period have in mind when they spoke of painting and sculpture as a "language"? At first, the phrase may seem intuitively clear, yet the more one looks into it, the more complex it becomes. Therefore it is no idle question to ask what it realy means.
In answering, one should keep in mind the obvious, namely, that it is an essential characteristic of the visual arts that they are wordless. \in calling wordless arts a "language", one is making a seemingly paradoxical statement, which, precisely because it is paradoxical, must be based on implict assumptions. It goes without saying that the people who used this idea, "the language of art",were not always aware of what they were impying. But it is necessary to bring some of thes underlying assumption on light.
First of all that the work of art,the painting in the church or the statue on the square, are explicity made to reach, and to appeal to, an audience. That the work of art is seen, experienced, and understood by spectators is not merely something that happens to the painting and the sculpture after they are completed. They are produced in order to convey a distinct message. In considering art as a language, the main emphasis, then, is placed on what may be called the communicative function of the work of art.

From the book "Language of art".By Moshe Barash

Fine artists

Artists create art to communicate ideas, thoughts, or feelings. They use a variety of methods—painting, sculpting, or illustration—and an assortment of materials, including oils, watercolors, acrylics, pastels, pencils, pen and ink, plaster, clay, and computers. Artists’ works may be realistic, stylized, or abstract and may depict objects, people, nature, or events.
Fine artists typically display their work in museums, commercial art galleries, corporate collections, and private homes. Some of their artwork may be commissioned (done on request from clients), but most is sold by the artist or through private art galleries or dealers. The gallery and the artist predetermine how much each will earn from the sale. Only the most successful fine artists are able to support themselves solely through the sale of their works. Most fine artists have at least one other job to support their art careers. Some work in museums or art galleries as fine-arts directors or as curators, planning and setting up art exhibits. A few artists work as art critics for newspapers or magazines or as consultants to foundations or institutional collectors. Other artists teach art classes or conduct workshops in schools or in their own studios. Some artists also hold full-time or part-time jobs unrelated to art and pursue fine art as a hobby or second career.

Usually, fine artists specialize in one or two art forms, such as painting, illustrating, sketching, sculpting, printmaking, and restoring. Painters, illustrators, cartoonists, and sketch artists work with two-dimensional art forms, using shading, perspective, and color to produce realistic scenes or abstractions.

By US Department of labor

Invest in art

World of art is not an easy one for amateurs to navigate. For one thing, it's immense, and knowing what you are looking for can be incredibly difficult. The best option is to find a reputable dealer to help you make the right choices and to prevent you from picking up a fake. Be aware though, that many dealers do not have any specific qualifications. Their knowledge is the reward for many years spent learning the trade, which makes checking the credentials of a dealer very hard indeed. One of the seriose expert in art investment is Dermot O`Grady, director of Green Gallery in Dublin. www.greengallerydublin.com
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Art collector

So, you want to be an art collector? For a beginner, it can be an intimidating concept. Do you need to be a millionaire? Have a degree in art history? Possess impeccable taste? None of the above. Art collectors come from all economic classes. Some are trained art scholars, while others teach themselves by reading and visiting galleries or museums. What they share is the desire to make an investment in something that will give them joy and aesthetic pleasure.

What Makes an Art Collection? A Collector
By Roger Dunbier, PhD

Some individuals own two, three possibly dozens of paintings and don't consider themselves art collectors. They are correct if they have not taken the first step in becoming an art collector, which is the conscious decision to become one. Without that decision, the ownership of art alone does not qualify you as a collector no matter how much you own in the way of art objects.
Beyond this first step is the serious consideration of what direction your collecting activities will take, what you want to obtain, to dispose of or retain. It requires some thinking, better yet a lot of thinking.
Art is a knowledge business. Collecting art depends on knowledge. Good or great collecting depends on your knowing as much as or more about the desired object than the other party with whom you're dealing---if you're buying,the seller; if you're selling, the buyer. This, of course, cannot always be done, certainly not in the case of each and every object. The fact remains, however, that the closer one can come to achieving parity or superiority in knowledge about any potential transaction, the better.

What is composition?

1. Webster's Dictionary calls composition "arrangement into a specific proportion...in artistic form." That might sound like a lot of work, but believe it or not, you decide on composition when you draw a picture.
2 Composition is where things are placed on a paper or a canvas. A good composition can make a picture strong and interesting. A bad one can make it weak and confusing. Great art does not just happen. Often, an artist has to think a lot before he or she ever picks up a brush or a pencil.
3 The first thing an artist has to have is an idea for the project. What ideas does he or she want to express? What should the subject be? What emotion does he or she want to show? Often, artists make several preliminary sketches to decide on the composition of the picture. Leonardo da Vinci did amazing sketches. He drew faces and landscapes that are works of art all by themselves.

By Colleen Messina