TREASURE CHEST
Many of the links are outdated - pictures are missing etc.
we are working on it!
This page is a collection of links in random order. While at one point we thought we would be able to bring order to this chaos, we no longer harbor any illusions that we can do so. Instead, we just add more stuff as it comes. Rummage through it like on a TREASURE HUNT.
Ernst Fuchs Official Website
ernstfuchs-zentrum.com
There are a wealth of images of work by Ernst Fuchs found on the site of the
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Fantastic Realism Exhibition at the Belvedere Gallery in Vienna
Press Photographs from the Opening at the Belvedere Gallery in Vienna, May 20, 2008
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SELECT ESSAYS
The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism - essay by Otto Rapp
Visionary Art from the The Art History Archive, it includes the essay 'What is Visionary Art' by Alex Grey.
The Manifesto of Visionary Art by Lawrence Caruana.
'That Art', essay by De Es Schwertberger in the beinArt Forum.
To see all the beinArt Forum posts on the subject, click: What is Surreal/Fantastic & Visionary Art?
Interview with Michael S. Bell by Nan Sea Love
Curator Michael S. Bell, a specialist in American Art,researched the Surrealist phenomena while he was assistant curatorat the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. He has been the sole voice in the Academic Art World to recognize Visionary Art. Here he speaks in an impromptu interview with Nan Sea Love about Visionary Art and its place in the Art World.
“Surrealism and Visionary Surrealism”
A very informative Wikipedia article about KITSCH is worthwhile reading.
Canon Fodder - What’s wrong with art-history textbooks?
is an informative article written by Alexandra Peers in the February 2006 issue of ARTnews.
Visionary Artists The Visionary Art Gallery of'Cyberguru' Daniel Tarr
over 700 Artists with links to their websites!
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VisionaryArt Show - a great Gallery to visit!
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VISIONARY ENVIRONMENTS - a wikipedia entry with tons of links to extensive/large-scale artistic installations (buildings, sculpture parks, etc) intended to capture intense subjective/personal experiences (dreams, fantasies, obsessions,etc) of their creators.
This is a detail from Ferdinad Cheval's Le Palais Idéal.
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Group on Facebook
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IFAR - International Foundation for Art Research
The International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) has launched a website compiling foreign cultural property laws and other information affecting the ethics and legality of transferring cultural property. The resource Art Law & Cultural Property also has a database of catalogues raisonnés for artists.
About Copyright and Fair Use:
Public Knowledge is a Washington DC based public interest group working to defend your rights in the emerging digital culture.
Artists Rights Society (ARS) is the preeminent copyright, licensing and monitoring organization for visual artists in the United States. Founded in 1987, ARS represents the intellectual propertyrights interests of over 50,000 visual artists and estates of visual artists from around the world (painters, sculptors,photographers, architects and others).
Canadian Artists’Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC) is incorporated federally as a non-profit corporation that is the national voice of Canada’s professional visual artists. As a non-profit association and a National Art Service Organization, their mandate is to promote the visual arts in Canada, to promote a socio-economic climate that is conducive to the production of visual arts in Canada, and to conduct research and engage in public education for these purposes.
For a general guideline regarding Professional Artists Fees, Exhibition Fees etc, consult the CARFAC Minimum Fee Schedule
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Highly recommended for any artist, but particularly emerging artists, to read the information on this site:
A wealth of very valuable information!
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A must read on the artbusiness.com site, this article spells it out in a nutshell: | |
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ART& ARTIST CONTESTS, COMPETITIONS, SHOWS, AND MORE LEGITIMATE OFFERS VS DEAD ENDS, TIME WASTES &SCAMS | |
Pay to Play at Your Own Risk
Warning: there are art scams operating on many networks, particularly nefarious is the World Art Foundation scam that started on facebook and myspace, but since has spread throughout social networks, including Ning. Please follow this link below and read all the information. It will save you a lot of grief in the long run!
CONSUMER FRAUD REPORTING
How to Report a Fraud or Scam
INTERNATIONAL VISUAL ARTS ORGANISATIONS
AUSTRALIA - National Association for the Visual Arts
AUSTRIA - Interessengemeinschaft Bildende Kunst
CANADA - CanadianArtists’ Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens
DENMARK - The DanishAssociation of Visual Artists
FINLAND - TheArtists Association of Finland
GERMANY - Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste
ICELAND - TheAssociaton of Icelandic Visual Artists
IRELAND - Visual Artists Ireland
NORWAY - Norwegian Visual Artists Association
POLAND - TheAssociation of Polish Artists and Designers
SPAIN - The Union ofVisual Artist’s Associations
SWEDEN - The SwedishArtists’ National Organization
SWITZERLAND - Association of Swiss Painters, Sculptors andArchitects
UK - ArtQuest
UK - The ArtistsInformation Company
EUROPE - International Association of Art - Europe
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ARCA
Association for Research into
Crimes against Art
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International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection
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TheArt Dealers Association of America
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SALVADOR DALI AND ERNST FUCHS
Check out the DALIPLANET blog for some interesting info on SalvadoreDali.
For a connection between Dali and Ernst Fuchs, the post about the GOLDEN TRIANGE is very informative.
ORPHANED WORKS LEGISLATION:
here is a insightful government document worth your read:HEARING ON “PROMOTING THE USE OF ORPHAN WORKS: BALANCING THE INTERESTS OF COPYRIGHT OWNERS AND USERS”
SATOSHI SAKAMOTO
launched a new Myspace page to promote a new Visionary Art project in Tokyo Ginza there are a growing number of good magazines available in our
BOOKSTORE READING CORNER
SAY NO TO FREE ART
Interview with KRIS KUKSI
A Journey into the world of Kris Kuksi, interviewed by Gromyko Padilla Semper in deviantArt
February 2010
We are currently rebuilding our website with a new theme - so temporarily this site is functional, but a construction zone.
Headers, background and certain special new functions will be built in, respectively changed. Additionally, most Slide Shows used to be embedded from our Private Social Network on Ning. Since Ning discontinued Flash some time ago, the space where the embedded slide shows supposed to be is blank!
We are working to fix this as well, but with over 500 pages for artists alone, this will take time.
