Out On An Insulting Limb When You Photoshop?
August 31, 2007 by FineArtRegistry
Filed under Art Opinion, Fine Art Registry
When in Photoshop, proceed with caution.
Open Letter To Artists (From An Art Critic) - Part 38
James Abbott McNeill’s portrait of Arrangement in Gray and Black, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Van Gogh’s Starry Night – only a few of the paintings that have been used in various ways, commercially and otherwise, to promote a myriad of products. From well known sources – Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, wine producers, national newspapers, to name just a few you – they have been used in a fashion that would make these artists turn over in their respective graves.
Joan Altabe, author of Open Letter To Artists (From An Art Critic) – Part 38, pleads with those tempted to use Photoshop in their creations not to bastardize someone else’s art. Read more
Invaluable Tips To Marketing Your Art
August 31, 2007 by FineArtRegistry
Filed under Fine Art Registry, Market & Sell Art
Artist Marketing Series, Part III
A Guide for Artists’ Creative Survival
Would you, as an artist, be interested in better exposing your precious creations and marketing them in a way that protects them as well as makes affordable and perfect sense? Of course you would. These steps are fully explained in a way that gives every aspiring artist the knowledge needed to pursue success.
In a series of articles devoted to helping artists in their quest for exposure, these important guidelines will be explained in a way that weaves a tale that travels through the Renaissance to the present. Fully explained is the importance of provenance and recording works of art as well as protecting them from fraud and other nefarious acts. Read more
The Best Painter Ever
August 25, 2007 by FineArtRegistry
Filed under Art Opinion, Fine Art Registry
The Awesome Artistic Talents of Ol’ Sol
Open Letter To Artists #37 (from an art critic)
Take some of your valuable time and look to the heavens. You are liable to discover the sun doing some wonderful and even astounding artwork in the sky. The OPEN LETTER TO ARTISTS #37 by Joan Altabe, a contributing art critic for Fine Art Registry™, gives us a whole new way to look at something we so readily take for granted.
There is nothing that can compare to the incandescent power that lights our world. The breathless beauty of a sunset, whether it be in Florida, slowly dipping into a restless ocean or setting lazily on a Northwestern Mountain range, coloring an expanse of sky with hues artists can only strive for.