Tag: artFido
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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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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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Lewis Marnell – Watching Paint Drip For Charity
If you’re in Melbourne, spend your Saturday afternoon at the Metro Gallery. Adnate, Shida & Dvate will be there from high noon working on three of their own pieces and one fine, fine collab. The collab will be auctioned off on artFido.com to benefit the family of Lewis Marnell, a pro skater who died of…
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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…
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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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Selling art online – to fee or not to fee?
When we launched artFido.com in May of 2012 we knew it wouldn’t be easy. Getting artists to consider selling art online through a completely new site, an online gallery unattached to any existing auction platform or bricks and mortar art house was a big ask. So, to remove any impediment to trial, to giving the…