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Protecting Your Art and Market Value Strategies for Collectors
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Protecting Your Art and Market Value: Strategies for Collectors
If you’re new to art collecting, you’ve probably come to realize that there’s more to it than purchasing the artwork. Once you are the proud owner of a piece, you become responsible for its safe-keeping, cleanliness, maintenance, and preservation. And if you’ve decided not to display it for whatever reason, you’ll need to store it…
An Exploration of Cave Paintings The Story of Humanity’s Longest Art Form
A new technique for dating cave art pushes the earliest works back to at least 41,000 years ago and raises the possibility that Neandertals were responsible for some of it. Credit: Pedro Saura; (BOTTOM LEFT) Rodrigo de Balbin Behrmann | Source: science.org
An Exploration of Cave Paintings: The Story of Humanity’s Longest Art Form
In May 2022, a team of researchers published the details of what is now recognized as the largest known ancient cave art image in the US. The record-breaking cave painting of a nearly 10 feet long serpent-like figure is more than 1,000 years old. The Indigenous Americans that left the etchings on the cave ceiling…
Andy Warhol and Marilyn A Connection That Gave Us Iconic Art
Andy Warhol’s ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ displayed at Christie’s 20th and 21st Century Art preview in April 2022 NYC. DIA DIPASUPIL via Getty Images | Source: huffingtonpost.com
Andy Warhol and Marilyn: A Connection That Gave Us Iconic Art
Andy Warhol’s iconic Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) painting has recently secured the world-record price for artwork at auction. Warhol’s portrait of Marilyn Monroe painting sold for $195 million in under four minutes — beating the record previously set by a 1995 Pablo Picasso painting that auctioned for $179.4 million in 2015. The 40-by-40-inch acrylic…
The Ultimate Guide to Building Your Reputation in The Art World
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The Ultimate Guide to Building Your Reputation in The Art WorldWhether you are an emerging artist or have already spent some time working on your reputation, being reminded of the fundamentals is always an excellent way to develop new strategies. The process of building a reputation can be broken down into three main parts — your works and how you present them; the way you…
How To Become A Professional Artist
Art Guide
How To Become A Professional ArtistBecoming a professional artist may seem like a long and arduous path to go on, but there are certain steps that you can take for it to be as effective as possible. Even as an amateur artist, you have the chance to create an art career for yourself and follow in the footsteps of successful…
What Art Sells Best Online
Art Guide, Art Market
What Art Sells Best Online?Let us start by getting straight to the point — there is no definitive answer to this. However, there are ways to learn what people prefer and what is naturally more appealing to the human eye — which, in turn, can help you decide what you want to go for and ensure that potential buyers…
Robert Colescott - Reenvisioning History Painting
Art World
Robert Colescott – Reenvisioning History PaintingScheduled on May 12th, Robert Colescott’s painting George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware River: Page from an American History Textbook, which was painted in 1975, was one of the most anticipated highlights of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York. While Colescott’s work has already been on auctions before, the price for the artist’s…
How To Make An Art Portfolio Online
Art Guide, Art Market
How To Make An Art Portfolio OnlineNowadays, with information circulating freely worldwide using the internet, there is no longer a distance between the artists and the masses. Just a single image, maybe your first artwork, can be seen by a vast number of fans and possible future customers. No matter what type of art you are making you can and should…
Jackson Pollock’s “Mural” on display at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice
Art World
Slow Art Movement – How the Art World Relearns Art AppreciationRecent studies show that the average visitor of a museum looks at an art piece for less than 30 seconds — 17 seconds being the average. Museum spaces sometimes are not helping this and seem to encourage the "more is more" way of thinking. All the crowds that can push you from one piece to…