Tag: art sales online
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artFido’s featured artist – Bijan Soltani
artFido’s featured artist for this month is Bijan Soltani. Born in Kerman/Iran in 1986, Bijan now lives in Perth, Australia, working full time as an architecture visualiser and Revit modeler, and part time as a character/environment designer & animator. In his spare time he manages to put together some amazingly complex and striking pieces of art…
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Affordable art – what does that mean?
The wonders of modern technology (mostly Google – but we don’t feel comfortable giving them all the credit) tell us at artFido that what most people are looking for when it comes to buying art online is affordable art. Not modern art. Not beautiful art. Not contemporary or Aboriginal art. Affordable art. Now affordable art…
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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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Art for sale – the price of art online
Pricing art for sale isn’t easy. There’s no official pricing structure. No accepted rules. No hourly rate conversion. No union and little to no economies of scale. So how should artists price their work? Well. Reasonably. That’s as good as it gets. Be reasonable. And when it comes to selling art online…be really reasonable. Those…
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Indigenous art online – beware the unscrupulous online seller
If you enter “indigenous art online” as a Google search query you may be quite surprised by how many results come up. There are hundreds. Actually, if Google is to be trusted, there are over eighteen million relevant results. Eighteen million! That is a lot of options. Some would say too many. And they would…
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art attack – why would people want to hack an online gallery?
In less than two weeks, artFido will have been selling art online for an entire year. It seems like only yesterday that we were telling our friends and family about our idea for an exciting new online gallery; for creating a website that would give artists and galleries an opportunity to sell art online; for…
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Aboriginal art goes online – The old adopts the new
If you searched the listings on artFido right now you’d find over 1700 pieces of art listed, and approximately 80 would be classified as Aboriginal art. Not a huge number in its own right, less than 5% of all listings, but substantial enough to prove a point: that there is definitely a market for Aboriginal…
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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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Graffiti into gif-iti – animated gifs give life to street art online
There has been a lot of talk about traditional art going digital, of how artists are now looking to sell art online and buyers buy art online. Yet few would have considered the possibility of taking street art online and further into the digital world. Lucky for us, there are some forward thinking street artists…