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
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 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 […]
Art Authentication for Artists – How to Protect Yourself in the Digital Age
The digital era has changed the art world forever for the better with new mediums, increased access to audiences, and innovative platforms for art transactions. But with the good comes the bad. Indeed, the internet has given artists and art enthusiasts around the world more access to the art marketplace, art communities, art education, and […]
Fashion and Contemporary Art: A Perfect Match
Is fashion art? Can art be fashion? These arguments should no longer exist thanks to a long history that has witnessed how the two creative cultures have collided, collaborated, and crossed over time and time again. Fashion and art both have stories to tell and messages to communicate to their audiences. Bold or understated, loud […]
NFT Art Guide: What It Is, How To Use It, and the Future of the Tech
Thanks to the incorruptible power of blockchain technology, we have decentralized digital ledgers that have opened a world of possibilities for digital art. While the digital marketplace gave us a new way to conduct transactions through cryptocurrencies, it also evolved and created a method for representing and managing the ownership of digital assets. The future […]
How-to Marketing for Self-taught Artists
While anyone these days can easily access paints, pencils, sketchbooks, canvases, or clay, not everyone is driven by creativity to see what their minds and hands can produce with these materials. Most artists will tell you that they came into their craft naturally, drawn by curiosity which grew into a nagging need to continue to […]
The Mysterious Motives of Manet’s Masterpiece, Le Déjeuner Sur L’herbe – Art and Nude Series: Part. 4
“I paint what I see, not what others like to see.” – Édouard Manet It can’t be helped. When you first look upon Le Déjeuner Sur L’herbe (1863) by French painter Édouard Manet, your eyes are instinctively drawn towards the woman who illuminates against the darker, rich tones of her background. But it’s not just […]
Art and Politics Part. 3: Art Speaks in Times of War
From a mural in Paris of a young girl waving a Ukrainian flag while crushing war tanks beneath her feet to a 13-by-13-meter painting of a white dove holding an olive branch in Ukraine’s national colors on a building façade in Frankfurt, artists all over the globe are showing solidarity with Ukraine through powerful art. […]
Food Art Obsession – A Feast for Our Eyes
The almost ritualistic behavior of capturing images of photogenic food and sharing with social connections didn’t begin with the digital age. Well before the “camera eats first” phenomenon, depictions of food were the main theme for artwork. Recalling the primitive roots of food art, the subgenre is anything but bitesize, but rather, a banquet that […]
Benefits of Signing and Dating Your Art
Do you sign your artwork with the same signature you use on legal documents? Do you sign your work on the back of the canvas or do you hide your signature within the painting? Or do you not sign and date your artwork at all believing it’s not necessary? It’s not uncommon for artists to […]
Celebrating the Legacy of Black Artists in Black History Month 2022
The Black Woman is God (TBWIG) exhibition, which showcases Black women visual artists, is back in person at the SOMArts Cultural Center. Exhibits like this one showed their flexibility last year, along with many other venues that had to respond to the disruption brought on by the global pandemic. But while it was forced into […]