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In the not-so-recent past, when someone wanted to buy art, they had to walk into a gallery in a major city. Doing that didn’t always guarantee that you’d be able to procure the artwork you desired, however. The most prestigious the art, the less likely anyone, even if they had the money, could purchase them. Much of art was auctioned as well, so you had to walk into an auction house and hope that your bid would be enough. In both cases, you had to have connections, either with the artist, gallery owner, or auction house.

This limited not only who could purchase art, but who could sell it as well. If artists didn’t have the right connections, it was unlikely that they could market their art, no matter how talented they were or how exceptional the art they created were. This made the art world an inaccessible place that outsiders weren’t able to participate in.

With the advent of the internet, though, this has changed. Today, if you have the money, it’s much easier to purchase high-quality art from unknown but talented artists, all from the comfort of your own home. All it takes a secure internet connection, a credit card, and in a few clicks, exception art can be accessible to you, too.

To assist you in purchasing and collection high-quality art, here’s a list of the best places to buy art online. This list is by no means exhaustive, but it’s a good start.

eBay: As a well-established auction site, eBay is a good place to bid for art, of all kinds and styles.

Art-Exchange Advertises as “the best source for all your art needs.” Their inventory includes over 100,000 works of art, from wall décor to three-dimensional works.

Art.com Offers the world’s largest selection of art and décor items for homes and businesses. Also offers custom framing and mounting services. Probably one of the best places to purchase posters and prints online.

Artbreak.com Place where new and upcoming artists can sell their work online, without paying commissions.

UGallery,com Represents today’s top emerging artists, selected by an expert panel of curators. Contains a diverse A place to buy art and research original art. Also has an online art galleries directory, gallery reviews, expert advice, art news, exhibitions, etc.

Original Art Online – An effective tool for the emerging artist to market and promote his or her art in a professional and inexpensive manner.

MyBestCanvas.com – Online art gallery specializing in selling original paintings from artists from all over the world.

Art Brokerage.com – Offers over 18,500 original paintings, prints, and sculptures from more 1700 international artists. Has over 850 new fine art listings every month.

Barewalls.com – The largest selection of framed posters and prints, at competitive prices. Includes posters of movies, music, sports, art, and celebrities.

1st-Art-Gallery.com – Offers handmade, oil-on-canvas reproductions of the most famous works of art.

By: Peter Dranitsin

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This isn’t Ebay, folks.

With more and more people possessing disposable income and looking for ways to spend it, fine art is becoming an increasingly popular means of beautifying the home. While many of these pieces are purchased from art galleries in cities across the globe, the most prestigious works are sold at auction to the highest bidder. Concurrently, if you’re thinking of purchasing a piece of fine art, it is important to understand the complicated process that goes on behind the scenes.

The largest art auction houses are Sotheby’s, Christies, Lyon & Turnbull, and Bonhams. In any given year, billions of dollars worth of art can cross the counter at each of these famous institutions. Each house holds several auctions a week, with inventories ranging from furniture to random pieces of Americana to fine art. This article will serve as a basic primer to the process of purchasing the latter.

The first step is finding an item that you’re interested in. Most auction houses have online catalogues and schedules that you can sort through to determine when items come up that you might want to bid on. Once you’ve found something, you can either purchase it in person, through a proxy, or via an absentee bid.

The most exciting way to purchase that perfect piece of fine art is to attend the auction itself. There’s nothing quite like the high-octane atmosphere of bidding, and making that split second decision to raise your paddle and subsequently the price. This also ensures you complete control over the process, and the ability to react quickly to other bidders offers. Once the last bid has been placed, the auctioneer will allow a short amount of time to pass before awarding the highest bidder with the piece.

If you can’t make it to the auction house, other options abound, however. Most houses will happily accept “absentee” bids. Simply obtain a form from a catalogue or website and return it via fax or post with the maximum price you are willing to pay for a particular piece of fine art. You can also use these forms to register for telephone bidding, by which a representative of the auction house remains on the line throughout the auction acting as the middle man between you and the auctioneer.

Once you’ve been announced as the winner of the auction, it’s time to pay for your new prized possession. In most cases, credit cards are accepted, though not all locations accept plastic. For higher priced items, most auction houses request that you pay through your bank with a cashiers check. You may pay immediately, or request an invoice, after which you are given an allotted amount of time to make payment.

Purchasing fine art at auction is a great way to explore the art world. If you’re lucky and do your research, it’s entirely possible to come across a steal. The auction itself can also provide a great story to accompany the beautiful new piece hanging over your mantle place.

By: Hugh Parker

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The artistic beauty of silver Judaica art has a historical time line referred all the way back to the Old Testament of Exodus 31:1-6. In this section of the Old Testament, it is said that the craftsmen Bezalel, Oholiab and several others created the first Sanctuary and the first silver Judaica ritual and priestly items for the practice of the Judaic religious ceremonies. With so many religious ceremonies to recognize, the needs and desires for these types of ceremonial objects of precious materials is an on going production.

With silver being the preferred precious metal within many lands for many centuries, silver Judaica has very little artworks to have survived before the 16th century. Many silver Judaica objects of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries have been preserved in museum and private collections. Since these were products of individual hand craftsmanship, there are many whom believed these particle artworks are held up to be the prime example of what Judaica should look like and consist of in the idealistic image. When the Industrial Revolution came about, objects were based upon those original hand crafted images of what Silver Judaica was “supposed” to look like.

Today it is common to find these artistically beautiful works of art in the home, not just in the Synagogue. The goal in creating Silver Judaica is for the artists to produce highly sacred objects for enriching the observing participation and to be able to reflect the Talmudic idea of Hiddur mitzvah. Hiddur mitzvah is the Jewish term for “the glorification and enhancement of Jewish ceremonies or the “observance in beauty”.

With each object representing the ceremonial observance of the many religious ceremonies, there is considerable consistency within what the Silver Judaica object its self is, but creative variations upon the finalization and stylization of the object is left up to the artisan whom crafted it. For example, the well recognized Hanukkah lamp is importantly historical by religious nature, there is the unique artistic creativity of most each Hanukkah lamp its self.

In today’s objects, it is not only the Jewish artists creating beautiful, but required ritual works of art, there are also many non-Jewish artists. With the personal respect in the basis guidelines of the objects themselves, creative process is too encouraged of the ritual spiritual objects being created. There is inspiration within the non-Jewish artist because of their artwork being so genuinely cherished and passed on down through various family generations for the admiration and spiritual practices of the Silver Judaica.

By: Anita Satin Choudhary

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Art has long been a favorite pastime. Just as long as art has been around people have been collecting paintings and original pieces of art, many are hard to find and expensive to purchase. In recent years interest in art collections has grown enormously among people of all ages. With the explosion of desire in finding collectable art pieces, some have turned to a new sort of collection, collecting art posters.

Although it has been possible for years to find reprints of famous pieces of art not until recently have reprints developed actual value. The entrance of collecting art posters has made it possible for anyone to collect famous works and has changed the reprint business all together. Art posters are reprints of original famous and unknown art and can range from the Mona Lisa to a movie advertisement poster.

With the renewed interest in collecting art, though it may be reprints only, collecting art posters have raised prices and led to art poster auctions. Art poster auctions are similar to art collectible auctions in that you can bid on great works of arts, the main difference is in regular art auctions you are generally buying an original whereas in art poster auctions you are purchasing reprints of art on posters. The popularity of art poster auctions has exploded too. People are beginning to pay between $100 to $2000 or more to purchase a reprint poster of certain works of art.

Famous paintings are not the only works available for purchase at art poster auctions. You can also find movie posters and advertisement posters. People are seeking older advertisement posters the most. If you have an advertisement in poster form in good condition from the first half of the twentieth century it may be worth a bit of money at an art poster auction.

These art poster auctions are not only popular in the United States. Collecting art posters at auction have become a worldwide favorite pastime. People are searching the planet to find certain posters and as a result the prices at art poster auctions are on the rise.

Music posters are also gaining popularity at the art poster auctions. Although not yet as expensive as other types of posters in the near future we may find the price just as high for music concert posters as any other kind. As long as the interest in art poster collecting continues, the art poster auctions will continue to grow and so will the price of reprints. More and more people are enjoying the beauty of art works thanks to art poster auctions. Every generation has collections of art that has made the art famous and art posters are the art collections of the 21st century.

By: Gregg Hall

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Marketing Art is just as much a part of being an artist as is the creation of the art itself. Today artists are desperate to find any techniques that improve their art marketing strategies while increasing their bottom line. One such technique is using Press Releases.

An artist today may find it possible to create news out of almost any situation that they are facing in their artistic career. How an artist goes about creating this into a story rather than just news is the difference between an artist who has learned how to make use of the power of press releases and is receiving the monetary benefit that this process produces.

Reporters and readers alike enjoy a great story especially a story that is factual and personal. In creating a story for the media you need to think about marketing your art, not by the process in which you create that art but by the story behind the creation of the art. Think of a piece of art, and the story that went behind what happened, what were your feelings,what did you desire, what was it that made that piece of art special to you. This is what reporters and readers alike crave and desire. Put these thoughts and feelings and desires into a bullet point list.

Now that you have your bullet point list about a particular piece of art you need to turn this into a story. If you don’t think that you can write your own press release, then you should consider hiring a professional writer. With your bullet point list ready, the writer should be able to ask a few simple questions and create a rough draft of your press release. Clearly define to the writer the purpose for your press release.

You may also want to consider who you are creating the press release for. If you are targeting different audiences, you may want to create press releases specially designed for each audience. Remember when marketing art the objective is to capture as many interested parties as possible. If you will be showing your art work at a gallery or other local event make sure you include this in your press release.

You need to focus on the Headline and make it catchy headline. If you fail to do this your release could get lost in the thousands that are created every day.

Exposure; The easiest way to expose your press release is for online press release websites. There are hundreds of such websites that would all be a good audience for your marketing art campaign. However in order to weed out the undesirables talk to your writer and/or do a search of the Internet to find the best.

CASE STUDY: As a result of a Press Release I did for an Artist, he was invited to a Radio Interview on one of the BBC Radio Programmes and through this he got amazing publicity through hits on his website and through the Artist being perceived as an Expert overnight. The recorded interview was then emailed to clients, put onto his website, You Tube and other video sites providing the Artist with FREE quality exposure.

By: Juzer S Kimti

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