Art News and Info

Collecting Art You Value

It’s not always easy to know what art you should collect. Should you buy something you don’t like? Is the art “high quality” enough to pay a lot for it, and what does that mean?  Are “quality” and “value” a measurable thing in art, or should other factors be involved?

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Fight Your Covid19 Sadness with Art

In this time of COVID-19, everything has changed. It’s easy to forget that we once went to art shows and galleries and never gave a second thought to shaking hands, rubbing shoulders, and hugging fellow artists and collectors. Some day those things may become normal again. Isolating ourselves is not

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How to Commission Art

Commissioning art isn’t a scary process and it’s not complicated either. When commissioning art from a talented artist, you can ask just about anything of them that’s in their wheelhouse. Since you see landscapes, realism, impressionism, portraits, animal art, and abstract art here on Fine Art South, you can get

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Red Velvet watercolor painting

Why Art Buyers Buy Art Online

Collectors buy art online just like the rest of us shop online – because of convenience and lack of salespeople and other reasons. Art sold online is often less expensive online than art in galleries, because there is very little overhead compared to a gallery. Fewer people to pay and

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Sewell Mill Out and About Atlanta Art Show

“Out and About” at Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Arts Center is a new group art show running now through January 7, 2020. This is an exciting art display sponsored by the Atlanta Artists Center. Fine Art South’s artist Shelly Leitheiser has a painting in this show titled “Out There”.

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Reality or Abstraction Art Show

Reality or Abstraction is a new exciting art show currently showing at the Grandview Gallery in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia. Fine Art South artist Shelly Leitheiser has 3 paintings in this juried art show, pictured below. The Grandview gallery is member-owned and operated by the Atlanta Artists Center. They do great

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“Design of Dissent” at MODA in Atlanta

RePrinted from ArtsATL “In our information-technology age, we’re constantly bombarded by headlines that can weigh on our psyches — families separated at our border, LGBTQ-rights suppressed in our workplaces, images of police brutality on our phones, victims of sexual violence publicly shamed before our eyes. The list goes on. The

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