Tag: art auctions online
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Stunning paintings by autistic three-year-old who can’t speak sell for 800 pounds after she took up a brush just a few months ago
By HUGO GYE A three-year-old autistic girl has made a splash in the art world with her extraordinary paintings. Iris Grace Halmshaw began doing art as therapy, but when her parents decided to put the works on sale they began fetching prices of up to £830. And painting has also helped improve the youngster’s condition…
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artFido’s Buried Banksy – go fetch!
To celebrate artFido’s one-year anniversary, we are giving our Facebook fans an opportunity to own their very own Banksy! Hidden deep in the heart of artFido, there is a Banksy artwork listed with a reserve of only one dollar. Yep. One dollar. That means someone is definitely going to walk away with their own, original…
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Street Art – here today, painted over tomorrow
Some street art is going to be around forever. Like the stuff that’s in the cave in France that Werner Herzog made a movie about. The rest you’ve got to enjoy while you can. Because most street art, by its very nature, is ephemeral. Time, taggers, weather, zealots, other artists might all take a shot.…
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Copyright or wrong – Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios on artFido
by Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios I’m sure I’ve used that headline before. But it’s too good to resist. According to The Art Newspaper (TAN), Italian artist Claudio Capotondi has made inroads into the Chinese art world. A version of the work he produced in 1978, Sferosnodo, was selected for permanent display at the front of a station…
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Mark Fitz – On street art, getting people to buy art and how to sell art online
Mark Fitz first caught our attention during our “Put Your Art in Print” competition in 2012. He was yet to sell art on artFido but was obviously open to the new online art platform and wanted to reach a new market keen to buy art online. His “Creative Gun” was one of the most popular…
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Art Lives Online – How the internet is giving life to art online
Yesterday the artFido Facebook page reached 20,000 likes. Now for the Nikes and Cokes of this world, that may not seem like much of an achievement, but for a small Australian start-up, that is definitely something to celebrate. It’s almost twice as many as the National Gallery of Australia and seven times as many as…