Sunday, March 15, 2009

Shopping or Art Online

It can be a bit overwhelming. What search terms do you use? We ask our friends and customers what they would search for if they had naked walls in their house and wanted to decorate them - amazing the terms people come up with... art is way too general, canvas art, posters, prints, paintings... how do you skinny it down to the find the artwork a normal person would hang on their wall? You know you want better than the mass-produced look of a Kirklands, or Target, but you don't want too edgy artsy-fartsy things that will scare children and animals. If you visit local galleries for posters, the framing costs a fortune, and can you afford an the original of "Landscape of the Muse" shown above by John McCormick? Where do you go?

Now it's easy to Dress Your Naked Walls... without losing your shirt!

Let's start with how this art business really works:
When an artist paints a picture - that's the original. An art gallery may sell it, or the artist may sell it at an art show or their own gallery. Simple enough. If that artist gets "discovered" like a writer, the artist gets "published" - a publisher will contract to produce reproductions (posters, lithographs, giclees, etc) and the artist will get a royalty from every print sold. Those reproductions can be prints on paper or canvas, and can be from any number of methods of printing, but basically its ink on paper or ink n canvas.

There are over 100 publishers of significance, with over 100,000 art images published - nearly all of them can be seen at http://liebermans.net/.
They only sell wholesale, but you can look, and now you see what the frame shops and art galleries see when they go shopping for art. It's a great place to search using their advanced search capabilities, and if you find something you like there, let us know and we'll order it for you! Just email us info@nakedwallartgallery.com .

So now you know why so many websites like art.com and allposters, etc. offer so much art. They also offer too many choices when it comes to framing - do you get glass or plastic, is the matting acid free? what color mats? how many mats? do you want the words to show? what frame? what about canvas? it can make you crazy. Most websites give too much selection of modern canvas art and endless complicated options.

We only offer canvas transfers with finished edges. That's the most popular contemporary option, where we take the paper print and transfer it from the paper to canvas, so it look most like the original artwork, at a fraction of the cost. In fact, by focusing exclusively on canvas transfers, our prices are lower than most frame shops charge to put a poster under glass!

At the Naked Wall Art Gallery, our Naked Wall Experts have carefully selected over 500 of the best works of contemporary canvas art from top artists and have chosen the most appropriate finish options. Every art print on canvas we make is an exact replica of the artist's original work - the closest you can get to the original without spending a fortune, they're made in America and we always provide FREE Shipping!

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