Tag: australian art
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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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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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INSTAGRAM: BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ARTISTS
Mindlessly double-tapping through Instagram can quickly turn into a black hole of nail art, puppies in costumes, and half-naked Rihanna. Looking for a more cultured and entertaining 20 minute diversion? Here’s some awesome artist and art-world Instagram accounts that you should definitely follow: www.artfido.com @artFido http://instagram.com/artfido No bias here! Although we haven’t been on Instagram…
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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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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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And the ballroom dancers went around…and around…and around again. A lesson in reading art auction figures.
By Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios Hello, old friend. Nice to see you again. It’s good to know some things never change. As regular as clockwork… John Brack’s Backs and Fronts is back on the art auction podium for the fourth time in nine years. Wouldn’t be the first, and certainly won’t be the last rapid-fire repeat customer…
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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…
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Art and Technology – Where will the future take us?
There can be no doubt that the advancement of technology has had an impact on art. Not only has it increased the ability to share, consider, adore, contemplate, and purchase traditional works, it has in many instances birthed completely new forms of personal expression. It’s doubtful that artists 200 years ago could have imagined creating…