The fastest way to bring beauty and style to a
room is to put up prints of beautiful paintings. Here’s what you
should consider:
Painting Prints Price Range:
Expect
to pay somewhere in the neighborhood of $50-$500 for an unframed
print–anything less than $50 is likely a poster. You should
expect to pay a similar amount to have the print framed–note that many
prints are designed to be exhibited without frames.
Before
art prints were sold online, the only way to get them was through
galleries or museum shops, which had to charge a large markup.
Nowadays, art prints rarely cost more than a few hundred dollars, and
it is possible to find good-quality prints for under $100. Still,
those lower prices generally come on prints that have been put on
sale. Expect to pay more for perennial favorites like Van Gogh’s
“Starry Night”.
Selection
There
is at least one print of every painting or photograph on display in a
museum anywhere. Thanks to the internet, you can find the right
art print among the tens of thousands in existence and have it sent to
you, regardless of where the original is located. Since websites
will let you browse thumbnail images of the artwork, it’s easy to find
a particular piece even if all you know about it is the name of the
artist or even just the time period in which it was created.
Painting Print Media
Prints are available in a variety of print stocks.
Prints vs. Original Paintings
If
all you’re interested in is a picture to decorate your wall, rather
than in collecting, prints are a better value than original
paintings. Here’s why:
* Expense.
Creating an original work of art generally takes weeks. If you
had to employ someone for several weeks or several months, how much do
you think it would cost at even a modest salary? That’s why
original artwork generally costs at least thousands of dollars.
In order to have a real chance of your work of art having investment
value, you need to buy the work of an artist who is moving up in the
art market.
* Questionable
investment value. Original artwork only has investment value if
the price goes up eventually. Very often, the price does
not. In short, if you’re interested in investing, buy
stocks–it’s a safer bet. Only buy art because *you* value it.
* Knowledge.
You need to be very knowledgeable about what you are doing. Make
no mistake: there’s plenty of fraud in this business. There is
also plenty of wishful thinking on the part of art dealers when it
comes to a work’s long-term market prospects
Ready
to make your home more beautiful with prints of great paintings?
You’re already in the right place: the internet has numerous websites
offering an unbelievable array of art prints. Start looking now.
By: Joel Walsh
Posts Tagged ‘artwork’
Fantasy Art Warrior Women Needed! Artists – Do People Post Your Work Without Giving You Recognition?
March 2nd, 2010
Fine art paintings reproduction, poetry, things you write, pieces of your soul get stolen, so bring out the fantasy art warrior women and.. and… do what?
Yes, it definitely happens, people snatch what you write, paint, sculpt or whatever and post it on their own site without giving you credit… ’sometimes’. I have seen some of my artwork, articles and poems especially, used w/o my link or name.
Ewwe! YES that makes me so stinking mad.
Yet, more often I have seen things I have written or artwork posted on sites that ‘DO’ give me credit. People contact me directly and ask me for permission as well. I would not blame it on article writing though, thieves can find you anywhere online, if you are active at all. It can happen wherever you post, be it on your blog or profile on MySpace or Facebook … anywhere, its the nature of the beast, the beast being the internet.
You can do one of four of things, or actually you can do the top three. I guess it depends on your energy level and just how mad you are because you can also do number four:
1)
Scream profanity and jump up and down and tell everyone you know.
2)
Contact the thief directly, tell ‘em they need to give you credit for your poem or article or fine art paintings reproduction or whatever.
3)
Report the stinkin’ thief, call out the troops! Bring in fantasy art warrior women or the dragon!
4)
Ignore it and move on.
I choose the latter, unless I find a site that is excessive. I expect to see my work posted on unknown sites, because they found me on an ezine, Much more often, than not, they not only post my name and url, but even my information from my posted resource box. It is all what makes that wheel turn that finally leads to me, or you.
As an artist, or anyone for that matter, trying to stand out is tough, as you know. Article writing is the one tool that I rely on, that aids in causing my shining star to say I am here.
When I check my stats for my main website, the numbers are ’substantially’ greater when I write and post on ezines, than when not. I see the difference about a month after I post 5-15 in any given thirty day span. My goal it to do more. It is best to get on a roll with article writing and create a steady flow of them.
The number of reads you get also depends on the keywords you use within your article. You don’t want to write something that no one will read do you? Good keywords, remember that!
Another advantage of writing articles for an artist, is publicity you never dreamed of. I have been approached by several different interest groups needing images for their particular event or cause. Oft times however, these have been non profit groups, yet they have been causes I have felt proud to help. It’s all adverting. Other contacts result in authors wanting illustrators.
The thing is, if you are not out there on the internet for fear of having something stolen from you? ‘You are not out there!’
I get url clicks from my articles. Other things can happen for you because of article writing and posting your artwork online. Contacts made with you that you never imagined. Try it and see.
Can people steal from you? Yup. Does bad stuff happen in life? Yup. But more often than not, good stuff happens, the sun comes out and the sky is blue and you won’t need your fantasy art warrior women, unless they are on canvas,paper or you are sculpting or writing about them.
By: Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
Subjective Art
February 15th, 2010
The question is, is Art affordable? I guess the answer to this question can vary depending from whom you ask? The affordability of Art is only relative to the pocketbook of the person who appreciates Art. 1 million dollars for an artwork could be affordable for a person who can buy it with ease, and $200 for an artwork can not be affordable for a person who needs that money to put food on the table for his or her family.
For this reason Art can not be looked at as an affordable or unaffordable commodity, Art is really a subjective commodity that accumulates value relative to it’s desirability. It’s price is formed in the eyes of the beholder. The one who can buy Art does not think whether he can afford it or not, he buys it because he likes it, because he has to have it.
If you notice, most people who buy Art, live in abundance. Once the affordability of something comes to mind, that means you are thinking in terms of lack, not in terms of abundance. The people who buy Art usually live in abundance, and continue to live in abundance. They get what they want and do not worry about whether they can afford it or not. They buy it because it is pleasing to them, and having it makes life more pleasing and enjoyable to them, thus the universe gives them more pleasing and enjoyable objects to appreciate and surround themselves with, another words, more abundance.
So Art is really subjective and it’s possession is a state of mind. Art is an essential dynamic or urge that makes life more abundant in beauty and love, and provides harmony to the environment.
By: Mike Samii
