All self portraits are a means of gaining self-knowledge.

Pricing artwork can be challenging for budding artists seeking to establish their own business. Formula for setting market related prices for your artwork.

The ability to draw the human face is always an artistic challenge. If you have even a modicum of drawing skills, however, you can easily learn a few tricks to improve your capability. Here are a few tips on how to draw a face profile.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. So said Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), arguably the modern worlds most gifted and celebrated artist who left his indelible stamp on 20th century painting, sculpture and architecture.

Guache (or gouache) is a paint medium akin to watercolour but radically different in composition and usage.

Reclusive, volatile, iconoclastic, Jackson Pollock (1912 - 956), celebrated American painter, was a tormented genius who became one of the most important exponents of Abstract Expressionism.

What do you think of when you hear the word graffiti? Disturbing, violent messages spray-painted on walls? Truth is graffiti is an art form with a long, fascinating history.

Vincent van Gogh was born in 1853 to a pastor in Groot-Zundert, Holland. Growing up in an atmosphere marked by religion and culture, van Gogh was a sensitive, diffident youth. After trying out varied jobs as a bookstore clerk, art salesman and preacher, Vincent finally found his calling as an artist.

Many of us would like to think that our carefully taken photographs are artistic and attractive, but would we consider them in the same league as a fine painting?

The art of home decorating is exactly that - an art! While you can read books about the topic, watch endless TV shows devoted to the subject or visit show houses for ideas, it all comes down to personal choice and feeling comfortable in your own home.

The history of printing goes back to wood-block printing in AD 200, through movable type and the printing press in the Middle Ages. However, the idea of producing acceptable copies of artwork did not get off the ground until the invention of lithography in 1796.

If you are setting up a new home or even redoing the decor of your existing one, you have probably thought about investing in some artwork for your walls. Paintings can add character to your home like nothing else and they make great statements about your taste. But here is the catch: not all artwork is orginal in nature. So how do you differentiate between orginal and reproduced artwork?

The art of the 20th century and onwards has its roots in modernism, an all encompassing term that describes the huge changes in Western society beginning from the late 19th century.

Although far from being comprehensive, this list of South African visual artists may be of interest for all looking to buy a work of art on bidorbuy.

What makes for a good investment? You spend a certain amount and hope for a return which is greater than your initial outlay: the greater the return, the better the investment. Simple enough...or is it?

A few things to keep in mind when buying art in order to avoid buying fakes: Be a smart art buyer on bidorbuy.co.za

After you've perused the oil painting section on bidorbuy and made your purchase, here are a few tips to caring for them.

A sparkling new art gallery has landed on the streets of Rosebank in Johannesburg; but does the striking presence of this gallery actually detract from the art that it houses?

From 1st to 9th August 2008, bidorbuy is hosting a fund-raising auction of about fifty works of art and autographed books