Tag: art online
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THE TOP TEN THINGS ABOUT THE NEW ARTFIDO
So, you may have noticed. We’ve got a new dog. And we’ve learnt some new tricks. We spent almost all of 2014 fine-tuning artFido.com to make it even easier to buy and sell art online. And we’re pretty proud of the results. Fido has never looked so good. And the site, well it’s running like…
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Is This The Best Way to Recognize the Artists of Famous Paintings?
If you haven’t studied art history, it can sometimes be a bit confronting walking around a museum or art gallery and trying to get your head around who painted what. So with this in mind, here’s a bit of a tongue-in-cheek guide as to how YOU can easily work out which artist painted what. Though some…
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Man Fake Texts Artist In A Hilarious Prank Almost Too Funny To Be True
While prank videos are always entertaining to watch, reading prank texts can be really funny too. It seems the guys at Textastrophe are at it again, with another epic texting prank that almost seems too funny to be true. This week’s subject, a local painter whose painting is hanging in a 24-hour restaurant. Whether the following is…
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Jason Moad – Creating contradiction in reality
We’re stoked to see more of Jason Moad’s work back on artFido. Jason is an extremely well respected artist based in Melbourne, Australia and has previously sold art on the site. His work is recognizeable for its sharp detail and interesting juxtapositions of natural and man-made beauty. “As a realist painter I deal in contradiction.…
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Sandy Skoglund’s striking conceptual photography – one colour makes a splash
Sandy Skoglund’s work is absolutely striking. She creates surrealist images by building elaborate sets, then furnishing them with carefully selected, colored furniture and other objects. Finally, after months of painstaking painting decoration and placement, she photographs the set, complete with actors. Her works are characterized by an overwhelming amount of one object and either bright,…
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Tilt makes a statement at the Hotel Au Vieux Panier
Well we’re not sure you’d have the most restful sleep, but Tilt‘s graffiti covered room at the Hôtel Au Vieux Panier is definitely something to behold. One side of the room is completely covered in vibrant graffiti, tagged into every corner, every crevice and crack. The other? Completely stark white. Not a touch of color,…
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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…