How Urban Art is Changing the Art World

The traditional path to art world notoriety has usually included art school followed by showings in galleries, and being noticed and collected by well-known art patrons and eventually museums, with the accompanying media attention to keep it all going. Urban art has by all accounts turned this system on its head and instead of artists praying to start out in galleries they are finding their audience first, literally, out in the open, on the street. From there, with the masses telegraphing their preferences via the internet, the attention-getting artwork then moves into the galleries.

Artists' long-held frustration at often not being able to have their work seen in galleries has, in the case of Urban Art, found an outlet in having unlimited audiences able to view their art, thus propelling it into the galleries. In February, 2008 when Bono's Red auction was held in New York it was Banksy's work that set new price records even in the rarified company of work from some of the art world's most lauded producers. The Tate Modern in London, the world's most visited Modern Art Museum, in May hosted 'Street Art,' an exhibition during which an entire side of its building was utilized by Urban artists.

As accessibility has driven the meteoric rise of Urban Art sales worldwide, the availability of emerging artists' work on facilitating mechanism that is the internet will eventually yield the same trajectory.

Watch our videos!

At Capucines Boulevard international art gallery http://www.capucinesboulevard.com our objective is to promote both established and emerging artists and make art a desirable part of everyday life.

One of the tools we use to achieve this objective is creating exceptional educational videos in 3 categories:
1. Videos about our artists and their works: in our gallery we currently have about 130 artists and we are striving to create a video about each of those who completed their profile page and have multiple works of art exhibited.
2. Videos about art as an investment tool: we aim to educate the community about the value of art and how one can make smart decisions while buying art.
3. Videos about events we organized or participated in.

Some of the videos you can see on our blog on the left hand side, while all the videos (and we currently have 30 of them) can be viewed at: http://blip.tv/search?q=capucinesboulevard&x=0&y=0

Father's Day gifts

Next weekend we will be celebrating a great holday - Father's Day (June 15). Women tend to receive more presents and tokens of admiration but this is an excellent opportunity to give something special to those hardworking dads!

Whether your dad is a golf pro, a BBQ king or anything in between we have unique gifts for him in our gallery http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/ and in our gift shop http://www.cafepress.com/capucinesblvd:

For a really cool dad our top picks are sculptures by Anton Maslik capturing the wild spirit, true force and strength - "The Knight of the Road" and "100 Bulls' Forces":

More info at: http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Anton_maslik

Go GREEN with Capucines Boulevard art gallery - Part II

Capucines Boulevard art gallery http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/ not only sells green products (see our previous post on May 21, 2008), it is also proud to be able to apply as many green rules in its own work/operations as possible. Since we are a virtual company, we:

1. don't produce any carbon emissions (our employees don't commute to work)

2. don't produce any waste

3. don't consume any extra electricity

4. have virtually paperless operations (even our contracts exist and are "signed" on-line) - we guess we have already saved several trees :-)

5. we promote the beauty of Mother Nature through the works we exhibit in our gallery:

If you like any of the art work above, you can find out more information about them, the artists and how to purchase them on our website (links are given in the order of appearance of the art works):

http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Lynard_Stroud/Fall_Light

http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Robin_Mayo/Colorado_Full_Moon_1

http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Maude_Metcalf/temple-tulip

http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Sumantro_Mukherjee/Excite(1)

http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Boris_N_Kudryavtsev/September._Burches_Lace.

http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Julia_Utiasheva/Winter_path.

http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Krystyna_Suchwallo/Garden_with_mirror_of_water

Go GREEN with Capucines Boulevard art gallery - Part I

Nowdays everybody is concerned about the well-being of our planet and we all understand that it is impossible to make huge improvementss over night but everyone can contribute his/her own little bit to protect the environment.

It is much easier to change your own habbits than to change the world and these little steps combined will make a big difference. Capucines Boulevard art gallery chalenges you to stop using plastic bags and go for reusable canvas totes!

Did you know that Americans throw away almost 100 billion plastic bags every year, and only 1 percent to 3 percent are ever recycled?

What’s So Bad About Plastic Bags? Plastic bags are not biodegradable. They clog waterways, spoil the landscape, and end up in landfills where they may take 1,000 years or more to break down into ever smaller particles that continue to pollute the soil and water.

Plastic bags also pose a serious danger to birds and marine mammals that often mistake them for food. Thousands die each year after swallowing or choking on discarded plastic bags.
Finally, producing plastic bags requires millions of gallons of petroleum that could be used for transportation or heating.

In our gift shop http://www.cafepress.com/capucinesblvd?s=capucinesblvd&type=17 we offer convenient canvas totes which you can use for shopping, taking lunch to work, taking piles of workload from work (you know those files and folders that don't fit in any of your handbags), going to the beach or to picnic and so on.

Our canvas totes are inexpensive, spacious, light but durable and can be folded to fit in any bag, even your pocket. But the biggest fun is that we offer nearly 60 designs to choose from!! All images on the totes are original art works created by the members of our gallery around the world.

Here are just some examples to choose from:

Let's work together to save our planet!!!

P.S. All the original artwork you can find in our gallery www.capucinesboulevard.com

"What Women Want" poll results

We closed our International Art poll earlier this week and we would like to thank everybody for participatio. The poll turned out to be truely international - we receive votes from:

USA

Germany

Spain

Colombia

Russia

Ukraine

Byelorussia

and the WINNERS ARE:

1 PLACE - Impressionist painting (Krystyna Suchwallo)http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Krystyna_Suchwallo - 27% of votes

2 PLACE - Glass work (Lance Friedman)http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Lance_Friedman AND Swarovski Crystalized Skull (Gregory Quinn) http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Quinn_Gregory - 18% of votes each

3 PLACE - Exotic Landscape (Yuri Kudryavtsev) http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Yuri_Kudryavtsev - 15% of votes

Congratulations to the winners!!!

LADIES, CAST YOUR VOTE!

Capucines Boulevard international art gallery launched an international poll on April 9, 2008 called "WHAT WOMEN WANT?" We truly believe that all women are artistic and more often than not they want to receive something special as a token of attention and appreciation, something besides the trite and commonplace gifts like a purse, perfume or a box of chocolates. We believe they deserve something unique and beautiful - an original work of art.

From Leonardo da Vinci to Salvador Dali women inspired the creation of most outstanding works of art. And even if you think of a landscape we believe it is also influenced by a feminine energy, after all, Mother Earth is a LADY :-) It's time they received something back.

To celebrate the up-coming Mother's Day and women everywhere we would like to ask you, dear, ladies, what DO YOU WANT? PLEASE, CAST YOUR VOTES ON THE LEFT!

The possible choices are:

Mystical painting (Robert Romero) http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/roberto_romero
Glass work (Lance Friedman)
http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Lance_Friedman
Stone ware sculpture (Patrick Johnson) http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Patrick_Johnson
Impressionist painting (Krystyna Suchwallo)
http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Krystyna_Suchwallo
Unique photography (Maude Metcaf) http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Maude_Metcalf
Wooden decorative art (Valeriy Latyshev)
http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Valeriy_Latyshev
One-of-a kind ink drawing (Anatoly Kudravtsev) http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Anatoly_Kudravcev
Rare limitted edition print (Charles Collins) http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/charles_collins
Exotic Landscape (Yuri Kudryavtsev) http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Yuri_Kudryavtsev
Swarovski Crystalized Skull (Gregory Quinn) http://www.capucinesboulevard.com/artist/Quinn_Gregory

The results will be announced on our websites as well as an artistic soiree we are planning to organize in Chicago, IL (stay tuned for details)