What to check, what to ask, and how to budget before you buy your first original painting online. Buying a painting online is a strange kind of purchase if you stop and think about it. You cannot run your hand over the canvas. It is impossible to step back 10 feet from the artwork to see how it looks in the evening light. You have only one photo, a brief description, and a bit of trust that the seller is being honest. This guide intends to help you narrow this discrepancy. It

A Pen Work Reproduction of Julia Margaret Cameron's 1864 Photograph The Three Marys, pen work reproduction on cartridge paper — 20 x 23.5 in, mounted and glass black framed. Available at KSHMEER. Some paintings hide a joke, or a private code, inside a serious subject. Few pull it off as neatly as the photograph behind this piece, a picture built entirely around a coincidence its creator refused to waste. This pen reproduction brings that quiet joke, and the reverent image bu

Giorgio Vasari records that the painting of ‘Monna Lissa del Giocondo’ was carried out when Leonardo returned to Florence. Of all his portraits, this one stands out as his masterpiece. Vasari states that Leonardo undertook to execute for Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Monna Lissa, his wife, and toiling over it for four years, he left it unfinished…’ MONNA LISSA DEL GIOCONDO Vasari goes on to inform us that Leonardo employed minstrels to play and sing to Monna Lissa w

Darpan Sundari, contemporary interpretation by Nzanti — 17 x 12 in, acrylic on prepared board. Available at KSHMEER. There is a particular kind of stillness that comes over you when you stand in front of a woman looking into a mirror. It is one of the oldest gestures in art — vanity, self-knowledge, a private moment made public. Nzanti's piece Darpan Sundari, part of KSHMEER's collection, takes that gesture and renders it in bold, near-total silhouette: black against a smould

An interaction with Sejal, an artist and a philosophy graduate Tell us about philosophy and art Philosophy is a fixed idea about something and art is a way, a medium through which one express that idea and brings it into existence . Philosophy is study of complex concepts that people hold as beliefs globally and can differ and that's what also shapes society and art is way through which one communicates those ideas in a creative way. Art is a way, a medium What kind of artwor

In this fast moving world full of technology , from the childhood I leaned towards the technology but i never let it hinder my peace and sense of fulfillment that art brings in my life. Whenever i find myself stuck in feelingless worlds of robots and machines I find my escape back in art. I specifically like oil paintings because of its slow nature and it allows me to go back into the past and improve my mistakes which obviously i can't do in real life . So Art acts as a brid