Tag: selling art online
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Nick Brandt – The beauty of East Africa in black and white photography
Nick Brandt shoots exclusively in Africa and is one of the world’s most prolific wildlife photographers. His amazing black and white images of elephants, lions, and cheetahs can be found in galleries and private collections all over the world. At 26 he moved to Los Angeles from his home city of London to pursue a…
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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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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…
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Want to buy art online? Why not check out Emelie Coffey’s work on artFido
Emelie Coffey is a massage therapist with knack for creating comfort, remedy and beauty with her hands. For the next two weeks, artfido will be featuring Emelie and her work. The art that is. Not the massage. Sorry for those who need the latter. We spent a couple of minutes getting Emelie’s take on art…