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G25N - Online Gallery for Contemporary Art. Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you. ART. 7 Awesome Art Blogs to Look At. People call Gen Y so many names, but perhaps one of the most likable that also strikes true is “the visual generation.” In fact, a new kind of “literacy” has been identified in digital natives who grew up immersed in visually-dependent, multimedia environments.

Young people today respond more to imagery than any other generation before them, perhaps because new technologies have allowed more dynamic graphics on our screens, and these Photoshop amateurs have cultivated a more refined popular taste in design. And when has photography been more accessible than it is now, when anyone can come up with the best-looking compositions from their Canon digital SLRs?

It’s only on rare occasions that we still call hired professionals to snap our precious moments. Despite this budding golden age in visual communications, the visual arts remain outside the mainstream. The Guardian’s Jonathan Jones on Art. Modern Art Notes by Tyler Green. Venetian Red by Liz Hager and Christine Cariati. Ron Gilad. Ron Gilad, 1972, Tel-Aviv. Actually Gilad lives and works in New York City, his hybrid objects combine material wit with aesthetic play; they sit on the fat, delicious line between the abstract and the functional.

Gilad is fascinated with philosophizing about the common objects we live with. His work, which vary from one-off to limited editions and production pieces, have no “expiration date” and reside in both public and private collections worldwide. See more; Art. More than 400 invited guests attended the opening event of The Art Hunter in Sydney on Tuesday night. The Art Hunter launch is a collaboration between The Cool Hunter and Jaguar, and the opening night was also the Australian debut of the spectacular Jaguar C-X17 concept car. To present The Art Hunter, we engaged our dream team of collaborators, led by the incomparable Natalie Longeon, Peter Pengly and Phil Barker from The Artistry (they designed and executed our Summer Lovers store as well), to transform a 500 m2 warehouse in Alexandria into a genuinely exciting, temporary three-week art exhibition experience.

The Art Hunter is not a white-walled space where you quietly walk past pieces of art. Instead, it is an eclectic and vibrant environment where every wall is a different colour (by our paint sponsor Taubmans), where there is no natural light and where the work of more than 40 artists, curated by us, is not only on display but also for sale. Closes Sunday 30 March Want to see more? World Contemporary ART Group News. It is often upsetting when artists discover their creations are stolen, and used by someone else online. Sometimes the artworks are simply displayed on another website, without any credit to the artist. Other times the art theft may be more blatant, such as selling the image on postcards, posters, etc .

One of the best copy protection measures is to have a low resolution images, but even this isn’t failsafe. At lower resolutions, the artwork is still large enough to be sold on keychains, ipod cases, greeting cards, and similar items. Also, watermarking may easily be cropped out with a photo editing program. This is one of the easiest ways for artists to find stolen art displayed on other websites: How to Check if your Art is Copied or Stolen With Google Image Search What should artists do next, after they find out their art is used by someone else without permission or credit? What to do About Online Art Theft There are steps artists can go through without even hiring a lawyer. World Contemporary ART Group News. World Contemporary ART Group News. Art is being stolen everyday on the internet. As artists who post artworks online, we need to protect ourselves from art thieves. I have even heard of people stealing images and selling them on Etsy products and elsewhere.

Although this has not been personally experienced (not that I know of anyway), I have found my art on other websites without permission or any credit. How do we as online artists protect ourselves from this kind of thievery? We have an entire article devoted to the subject: How to Prevent Art Theft Online One of these effective methods for protecting our art, mentioned in this tutorial, is watermarking! Below is a complete article on how to watermark artwork photos using Photoshop. If interested in our other Photoshop tutorials, please visit: Optimizing Images of Art with Photoshop Part 1 Image Optimization of Artworks using Photoshop Part 2 Making a Watermark in Photoshop Open Photoshop and create a new document (File – New or Ctrl+N). How to Find out if Photos are Stolen. Video | Juxtapoz Magazine.