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Artists who do not currently own a website but who wish to exhibit their art on a wotartist mini portfolio, can now do so. All artists are free to submit their art for inclusion.

To maintain the highest standard of Contemporary paintings exhibited on wotartist, artists must first submit a sample of their work for consideration. The selection process and criteria for being accepted for a wotartist mini portfolio is the same as outlined in our "What is wotartist's inclusion criteria?" section found on our submit page. Please note that for the set up and running of wotartist art portfolios a fee does apply.

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Animesh Roy

Animesh Roy is inspired by the furious passion of Van Gogh, the adventure and grit in Papillon and Robert Louis Stevenson, Messner for being alone with the mountains, the total irreverence and bohemia of Henry Miller, rebellious youths in The Wild One, “What are you rebelling against? What’ve you got?”, the sublime serenity of Tagore and Ray, and courage and greatness of the Mahatma.

Born in one of the most artistic places in Bengal, Krishnagar, famous for its clay sculptures, Roy has been crisscrossing since a child as his parents had transferable jobs. A sense of adventure was instilled in him as a child through treks in the Himalayas — “Walking down to Saat Taal and getting lost on the way back in the darkness.....”

Inspiration comes from adventure, travel, meeting people, visiting villages, monasteries, temples, churches, mosques, and graveyards. He would not be able to work in the confines of a comfortable city studio. Though many of his works do get physically done in a studio — the germs are born on the road, while travelling, soaking in.

Roy has been a rebel and a traveller and his natural skills are completely untrained. His artistic growth did get stunted from four years of exile in the Delhi College of Art, trying to get a meaningless ‘art degree’. He planned for a ‘break’ like Papillon succeeding with two back to back solo shows just out of college in 1992. Earning the ire of the art critics and his art college professors!

Since then Roy has had six solo shows in major Indian cities.

Saturday's art tip

Different art viewpoints

Before beginning a sculpture, the sculptor unlike the painter will make studies of his/her subject from many different angles. The painter is more accustomed to finding a single viewpoint and proceeding to paint from it alone. The painter however can learn a lot from the methods of the sculptor and should take great care when selecting a viewpoint by making sketches just as a sculptor would. This of course is even more important when the subject is close, for example in the case of a portrait subject, a still life or interior scene. Often simply shifting one's viewpoint to the left or the right can help the painter to explain what they are seeing.

Exercise 1.
Take several objects and arrange a still life. Without making a drawing re-arrange them several times and each time step back and try to observe how colours change, how shadows darken, how lights lighten, how mood changes, how cast shadows can distort the appearance of objects. Just like the sculptor would you could try to draw the subject from many different angles. You should start to see that the appearance and our preconceptions play games with us, and that which we hold to be true one moment may no longer be the case!

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Wotartist art gallery currently enjoys a page rank of 6. This has been achieved through dedicated work in securing reciprocal link exchanges with artists. Since Jan 2008 wotartist has created 203329 unique visits to artists' websites

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Listing on wotartist is entirely free. To submit your website to wotartist simply fill in our submit form found on each page.

To maintain the artistic integrity of this site and the quality of contemporary art that we exhibit we are committed to our inclusion criteria and therefore suggest that to avoid disappointment all artists look at our art inclusion criteria in detail.

about wotartist

WOTARTIST is an on-line contemporary art gallery/artist art directory run by professional and practising artists. Designed with ease of use foremost as a consideration, Wotartist's raison d'être is to bring the best contemporary artists currently exhibiting on the internet from search engine obscurity and hopefully for their art to enjoy greater exposure. Wotartist's interface was born of the desire to democratise the exposure of artist's sites.

Determined to make it easier for the art loving public to find contemporary artist's websites we knew we didn't want them buried on multiple sub-pages of our site. It was through finding a solution to the age old problem of image download times that we were at last able to list all our artists websites on only a few art pages.

Because we also track the number of unique visitors that click through to each artist's site we are able to organise them on each page relative to the number of visits their art sites receive from wotartist, with those with the least visits at any given moment being exhibited at the top of the page. As a consequence all the contemporary artists listed on wotartist enjoy equal exposure. Only the very best artists' websites are chosen for listing.

Please note the following key features.
1. Browse artists art websites by continent regions above.
2. View further samples of art by following the artist link under each artists name.
3. Free to send contemporary art greeting cards are found by following the art card link above.
4. You can bookmark your favourite artist's page and sign up to receive, each new artist and art tip added to the art school, to your social network sites, such as FaceBook, by using the yahoo and bookmarking logos on each individual artists page.

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For a modest annual fee wotartist also offers an artist webmaster service which includes updating images and text, general site maintenance and when required the moving of hosting to more cost effective servers, thus reducing the financial burden of running a website.

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