ArtSocket blog

ArtSocket Blog

ArtSocket is a boutique art gallery featuring prints by a select group of artists and photographers. This blog is a collection of articles and resources which are aimed to provide information about art, interior design and the features and processes at artsocket.com

Featured Articles:

Curated art online: how does it work?
We'd like to help.
What role does (or should) art play in our lives?

Sharing art is easy fun and rewarding

Internet thrives on sharing. It is the ultimate “pass it on” engine that allows us to up to date on the latest news and happenings - whether it is with our friends or elsewhere in the world. But what do you think is the most common type of media that is being handed from screen to screen online?

Images take up the most amount of traffic on the internet and there is a reason for that: it is virtually the easiest way to convey information without having it written. It is also the easiest way to experience art online. There are billions of photographs and works of art being posted on Facebook, tweeted and pinned. Some of those images are ours - so we decided to make it easier and more fun to share ArtSocket material for anyone who’d like to. Simply click the share button (bottom right of the photo, looks like a square with an arrow coming out of it) and you are done.

Of course, this function bears ArtSocket award-winning design and usability. (And your followers will appreciate and praise you for sharing high-quality art :) Enjoy!

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Our goal is to bring inspiration and promote creativity. Although we are a for-profit organization with a goal to sell prints, at heart we just want to make art.

If you are an artist, photographer, musician or any other sort of creative individual - we would love to help you promote your work - on our social network, blog or on the website itself. Please feel free to submit your images, links or anything you think is relevant and we will do our best to promote your creations. We will also critique your work and give you some sound advice (not just praises!)

If you are an art lover and looking for a particular something, would like some advice or just want to see if we have some ideas for you - by any means, let us know and we will do our best. If not ourselves, we will find someone - we’ve got lots of friends in the creative industry.

If you are a creative organization, club, gallery - we would love to promote your events, work, artists, venue. Just drop us a line.

We are not asking for money, links or anything at all in return. All we want is to connect those who create and those who seek creations. Really.

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Would you buy art online?

Kathryn Tully discusses on Forbes the latest shift in art trade. To be more specific she lists the pros and cons for both the businesses/artists and the collectors/buyers for the online art market. There are obvious barriers to making large purchases online, such as experiencing the works in their true appearance (i.e. seeing how the actual 20” canvas print looks on the wall vs an image on 13” computer display). But there are also advantages in terms of easier distribution methods and lack of need for physical space to store the works.

What do you think?

Image by Kees van Mansom

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Curated art online: how does it work?

Internet has democratized and revolutionized our lives in many ways, including discovery and exploration of art. It is not uncommon for museums and art galleries to have more visitors online than at the actual venue. In this article we will describe the online curation process (and why it is important) as well as compare both physical and online methods.

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On tour

We are pleased to announce that Dmitri Tcherbadji, will be going on tour across Asia and North America in search of next brilliant imagery for ArtSocket. His trip will begin in Northern China which will likely mean much fewer Twitter and Facebook updates as they are blocked in that country. However there will still be full support via e-mail should you have any questions - as usual. If you would like to follow his travel adventures more closely, follow his personal blog Knowledge and Anticipation.

As the plane’s engines rev and we are getting close to taking off Toronto International Airport we would like to thank everyone involved with this project and recap couple of things that we have accomplished in the past year:
- Complete website redesign and rebranding - one of the most time consuming and difficult tasks ever, no doubt. And thanks to your awesomely helpful feedback we were able to score awards from some of the world’s most prestigious web design directories (hi CSS Mozaic, CSS Garden, CSS Design Awards, QNT Gallery and QIndex!)
- Tons of new artwork and photography has been added since 2012 including many artists who’s imagery isn’t live yet but will be arriving soon this year (hi Frank!)
- Countless technical upgrades - for which we thankful to the amazing Toronto development community (hi #DevTO!) and the global online community (hi David Walsh and SmashingMag!)
- We have produced tons of engaging and helpful content for everyone interested in art and photography on both our website and our blog (hi Betty and Shelley!)
- We have donated over 2K to various charitable organizations - considering that we are still a start-up! (hi #HoHoTO!)
Once again, thank you everyone who is involved and anyone who visited our website and shown interest, sent free e-cards or purchased our prints. We love you all.

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ArtSocket Blog

ArtSocket Blog

Featured Articles:

Sharing art is easy fun and rewarding

Would you buy art online?

Curated art online: how does it work?

On tour