Nick Brandt – The beauty of East Africa in black and white photography
Nick Brandt shoots exclusively in Africa and is one of the world’s most prolific wildlife photographers. His amazing black and white images of elephants, lions,...
buying art online
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Affordable art – what does that mean?
The wonders of modern technology (mostly Google – but we don’t feel comfortable giving them all the credit) tell us at artFido that what most...
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Stunning paintings by autistic three-year-old who can’t speak sell for 800 pounds after she took up a brush just a few months ago
By HUGO GYE A three-year-old autistic girl has made a splash in the art world with her extraordinary paintings. Iris Grace Halmshaw began doing art...
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Art for sale – the price of art online
Pricing art for sale isn’t easy. There’s no official pricing structure. No accepted rules. No hourly rate conversion. No union and little to no economies...
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Indigenous art online – beware the unscrupulous online seller
If you enter “indigenous art online” as a Google search query you may be quite surprised by how many results come up. There are hundreds....
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art attack – why would people want to hack an online gallery?
In less than two weeks, artFido will have been selling art online for an entire year. It seems like only yesterday that we were telling...
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Aboriginal art goes online – The old adopts the new
If you searched the listings on artFido right now you’d find over 1700 pieces of art listed, and approximately 80 would be classified as Aboriginal...
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Street Art – here today, painted over tomorrow
Some street art is going to be around forever. Like the stuff that’s in the cave in France that Werner Herzog made a movie about....
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Graffiti into gif-iti – animated gifs give life to street art online
There has been a lot of talk about traditional art going digital, of how artists are now looking to sell art online and buyers buy...
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Copyright or wrong – Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios on artFido
by Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios I’m sure I’ve used that headline before. But it’s too good to resist. According to The Art Newspaper (TAN), Italian artist Claudio...
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Mark Fitz – On street art, getting people to buy art and how to sell art online
Mark Fitz first caught our attention during our “Put Your Art in Print” competition in 2012. He was yet to sell art on artFido but...
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Selling art online – to fee or not to fee?
When we launched artFido.com in May of 2012 we knew it wouldn’t be easy. Getting artists to consider selling art online through a completely new...
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Want to buy art online? Why not check out Emelie Coffey’s work on artFido
Emelie Coffey is a massage therapist with knack for creating comfort, remedy and beauty with her hands. For the next two weeks, artfido will be...
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The dilemma of selling art online – no touch, no smell, no see
We’ve written about selling art online before. No surprise really, as we are first and foremost a platform built just for that, to buy art...
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Art Lives Online – How the internet is giving life to art online
Yesterday the artFido Facebook page reached 20,000 likes. Now for the Nikes and Cokes of this world, that may not seem like much of an...
