Art Market 2.0 – Crowdsourcing Artists

b-uncut is fast emerging as the worlds leading artist Crowdsourcing platform. The beginning of Art Market 2.0.

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Commission An Artist Online

People have been commissioning artists for a thousand years. It is one of the earliest forms of trade.

Kings, Queens, Lords then industrialists, pioneers, even pirates took artists in and fed, housed and paid them to make great art. The artist commission is as old as time.

But, a system or channel for commissioning art has never been established. Almost every other form of trade has become formalized into retail, trade or barter networks and outlets. But not the art commission.

It is still an ad hoc, grey market. It may be worth billions of dollars a year, but it’s completely disorganized. If you happen to bump into an artist at a dinner party that sculpts how you like – bingo, you’ll commission him. Or not. There’s no marketplace for artists commissions. Buyers have little choice or price transparency. Artists have no route to market. Gallery’s are not geared up for it. Demand is undeveloped, supply patchy.

Well, its about to change. b-uncut the worlds leading network of emerging artists and a Web based art marketplace has just launched an online art commissioning system. b-uncut has over 1,500 artists, growing by 150 a month, from all geographies and every genre. So, art buyers and lovers can now use b-uncut’s artist commissioning system to efficiently order a commission.

Finally a marketplace can emerge for artist commissions. One where pricing is open, choice is abundant and the process of commissioning art is managed. Do you want to commission an artist?

b-uncut: An Art Revolution

A quiet revolution is under way in the art world. One that few expected and most missed. Because it’s on the Web; called b-uncut.

It was started in 2007 by a group of contemporary artists, led by Philip Letts, as a new kind of collective. One without borders. One bound by the Web. They’re vision was simple. To use the digital world to reinvent the concept of artist collective and shift power to the 21st Century artist. So giving them greater indepenedence. They figured that if they could persuade enough artists to support this movement then, one day, the art world could become a bit less dealer centric. And a lot more open.

They reasoned that the dynamics of the 21st Century should fashion an artist centric ecosystem. Even a new kind of art market, one driven by the artists themselves. A place where meritocracy reigns and FAIRTRADE exists. Where artists can earn a living, if they are talented, from their art, not barista skills nurtured at the local Starbucks.

Wind forward to today and the revolution is well under way. Nearly 1,500 talented, emerging artists from all over the world have joined b-uncut. They work and hang in its virtual studios – where the rent is free and access is open (so long as they are real artists and supporters of the movement). Within these virtual studio walls they create and share paintings, sculpture, graffiti, photographs, videos, poems, writings and more. They’re styles cover conceptual art, abstract art, surrealism, pop, street, realism, pointillism, performance, photography, video and much, much more. They have produced and loaded nearly 25,000 artworks at b-uncut’s studios in just 2 years!

They upload finished works and works in progress. They share their notes, sketches and musings. The 1,500 studios rock! The artists are alive. They critique each other and have produced an invaluable peer review and rating system – something that artists have lacked since the beginning of time. They huddle in specialist groups and learn online. They teach one other, promote each other and look out for each other. Today over 100 new artists join b-uncut every month. It’s growing – they’re good and the place buzzes.

Together these extraordinary artists decided to go one step further. Six months ago they built their very own art marketplace. First they constructed a Web based Gallery – the b-uncut Gallery. It already hosts around 60 of the more commercially minded artists and takes the concept of Web gallery to a whole new dimension. Walk into its 3D like gallery rooms and queue up for openings. Visit their cutting edge, stunningly curated digital exhibitions. On the way out drop by the museum store. Entry is free for everyone, 24 hours a day. You just need Internet access and a smartphone, PC, laptop or library. Next time you want to go to a contemporary art show do it from your arm chair.

If you like what you see you can buy some of their art at the gallery or direct from the artists using b-uncut’s revolutionary artist commissioning system. You rest assured that the artists pocket more of the receipts which allows them, in turn, to plow your funds into art supplies, art books and future artworks. I don’t know about you but if I decided to invest in a specific artist and their works I would want to know that they, not middlemen, took the majority of my money and continued to develop their art for my future pleasure.

And you get better prices which is why art buyers and lovers are starting to flock to the b-uncut Galleries and Store in their thousands. They’re buying.

Anyone can visit the artists studios, but, membership is reserved for the artists. They’re privacy is important. You can observe and watch them work, share and learn. But, shhhh, they’re creating. You can also read their blogs, notices, listen to their favorite tunes and watch their videos. You can find out about shows they will be in and go meet them in the flesh. Each month 25,000 art lovers come by b-uncut’s studios to watch the artists work and hang out.

You can read b-uncut’s art magazine and blog. Leading Museums, galleries and critics do. You get the real time, real world, unfiltered news and reviews from the emerging art world. Uncut: b-uncut. Check interviews with artists, exhibition reviews, street snaps, opinion pieces and more.

So you see a new art revolution is afoot. Who said the Web wouldn’t change art. It already has. More than you can ever imagine.

b-uncut Store Rips, Supporting Emerging Artists

The b-uncut Store is doing for the art world what Loudclothing.com does for the music industry (which is why EMI bought them yesterday!).

And art lovers are buying in, snapping up the latest contemporary art accessories - t-shirts, posters, coasters, mousepads and more.

Here’s a few we like. Go to the b-uncut Store today and support emerging artists – its FAIRTRADE for artists.

The Museum Shop for the Masses

Museum shops at Moma and the Tate do a roaring trade – even in the current climate. People just love having a nifty product with cool art on it. After all who can afford that original Van Gogh these days. The problem is that Museums are hard to get to and only promote dead or celebrity artists. What about tomorrows artists?

b-uncut has the answer. The worlds leading emerging artist network has recently launched an online Museum store for emerging and developing artists.

A place where anyone can go online to buy every day products at every day prices with the coolest next gen art on it. Want that graffiti poster or t-shirt. An abstract mug or mousepad. A photographers clock and coaster. A conceptual artists fridge magnet.

And the real kicker is that whenever you buy a product at the b-uncut Store you know that you’re helping an emerging artist buy their next paint, paintbrush, canvas or spray can. I know where I’ll be shopping these holidays. You?

A New Art Marketplace is Born

In 2007 a handful of pioneering artists had an idea. They thought that if they could use the Internet to unite and organize artists from around the world then together they could redefine the concept of art market. You see, they understood that world artists had had enough. Enough of making no money. Enough of working at Starbucks or McDonalds rather than in the studio. Enough of being abused by gallerists, dealers, critics and the art snoberati. Enough.

Today it is so bad that even talented artists regularly get denied a career by an antiquated and inefficient art market that is choked by a few hundred leading gallerists, a fistful of prickly critics and less than half a dozen auction houses. As a result emerging artists fail to get discovered, developed or promoted. It’s time for something different. Time for a new kind of art market, born from the Internet, developed and shaped by the artists, art buyers and art lovers – free from the establishment. So quietly, underground, b-uncut was born. At first offering a virtual studio network for artists from around the world to work together over the Web and share their art, opinions and concepts for a new art universe. And together they designed this new art market from the ground up, unfettered by the confines of legacy – offering FAIRTRADE for artists.

More than 700 artists have joined the b-uncut movement with 100 new artists signing up each month. So today they opened the doors to a new art marketplace with a next generation art gallery. An online museum store, an art bookstore with Amazon and an immersive art marketplace managed by b-uncut where artists can meet buyers and buyers can appreciate emerging artists and understand the international, emerging art universe. A place where artists get a better deal, where prices are fair and transparent. A place where art breaks. A place for the smartest buyers of emerging art.

The b-uncut team have taken online gallery to a new dimension with their “smooth” virtual artist studio visits. They already knew that b-uncut.com was THE place to be for up and coming artists and modern art buyers, but with their new, branded online gallery, innovation takes on a full and edgy purpose making great art accessible to many. Never before could you stroll through a cutting-edge gallery from the comfort of your armchair and peruse the details of artists’ work directly without any horse-trading middlemen or dealers. b-uncut puts you within one degree of separation of an infinite number of talented, international artists whether you’re looking for photography, paintings or digital art works – to create what can also be referred to as the “Art Web”.

Now that we are a long way from the uptight and dull approach of auction and gallery sales, this unique and exclusive space offers a fair deal to art producers, connoisseurs and first time buyers.

So sit back, relax, and let us take you on an art tour. Join us at b-uncut.com.

b-uncut Breaks New Records for Artists

blur Group’s crowd of artists at b-uncut keeps breaking new ground. Today it surpassed 10,000 artworks loaded. b-uncut.net, where the artists hang, attracts over 5,500 unique visitors per month and over 40,000 page views making it by far the most ‘active’ artist site on the Web.

In the mean time b-uncut.com, aimed at art buyers and art lovers is growing fast. And buyers are starting to buy both from our recently opened Gallery and Store. We have 31 artists at the b-uncut Store – and growing.

b-uncut is the place on the Web where the coolest art breaks and where the artists’ artists hang. Join us.