December 2005 - Web Art Academy

City of Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery

On 21 Dec, 2005 With 0 Comments

Located in the Drake Circus region of Plymouth, City of Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery in England is the biggest and finest museum and art gallery in the city. Built according to typical Edwardian Style, this exceptional English museum and art gallery was built in 1907. This stunning museum was built by the famous Thornely and Rooke. Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery boasts an extensive collection of fine and decorative arts, natural history together with human history. The natural history section alone features more than 150,000 specimens. There is also a significant natural history library and archive. Highlights of the natural history collection are relics from Dartmoor, Bronze and Iron Age objects from Mount Batten and post-medieval and medieval…

How To Sell Your Art – Advice For Artists On How To Sell Your Art

On 19 Dec, 2005 With 2 Comments

We all know that Van Gogh only managed to sell one painting in his life – a clear illustration of the fact that making art and selling it are two very different things (and great comfort to those artists who never sell anything!). The ability to create good art does not necessarily bear any relationship to the ability to sell it. Completely different skills and knowledge are involved. The traditional model has been that the selling side has been taken care of by galleries, leaving artists to concentrate of the creative side. This is fine if you are lucky enough to have a high profile gallery on your side, but a whole new field of opportunity has opened up now,…