Art Website Development: Connecting Art Enthusiasts and Artists Worldwide

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................4
Questionaries...............................................................................................................................4
Outcomes of the research.............................................................................................................4
Requirements for the website........................................................................................................19

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Introduction
This project proposal is based on the idea of connecting art enthusiast or the art
consumers with the artist worldwide. With the improvement of internet and technology building
websites and reaching to people has become so much easier. My research is based on the impact
of arts and artists on the society and also the impact of lifestyle, psychology and creativity on the
people in the society. During this research I received many participants who were willing to
provide their views on my concept of building the website. The name given to the website is “Art
Connects Network”. My main aim is to provide a platform for the artist and the art consumers a
platform that can be used by everyone around the world. The questions in the survey were well
constructed and the reply to them were also captured well. In this research proposal, a brief
explanation of all the question are mentioned and in addition, I have visited a few websites that
share the same idea. I have taken some references from those websites. All the websites are listed
in this report with a brief analysis for every website.
The primary idea of the website came to me when a person said to me that he never
understood the concept of modern contemporary art. He wished to reach out to the artist and
collect more information about the piece of art to understand the concept of the art very
precisely. The main goals of creating this website are to commence online exhibition and selling
of the contemporary arts from around the globe. These include the oil paintings, acrylic paintings
and mixed media painting and drawing which covers a wide range of themes. The words also
includes sculptures, ceramic, photography and various print media. This website will provide a
section where many local and well established lectures from different artists will be featured.
The selling section of the art works will be open to all to select their favourite art work and buy

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them. The website also aims to provide nation-wide and also international exhibitions and art
fairs. In this proposal, the requirements to build the website is also provided.
Discussion
Questionaries
The following questions were asked during the survey:
1. How important do you think arts is in our society?
2. Why do you think the consumers need to meet the artists?
3. How art influences people in day to day life?
4. What is the impact of arts on the art lovers and also the artists?
5. Which is the most influencing website that you have come across that involves
the same idea?
6. Is there any suggestions that you would like to make?
7. Is there any other features that you would like to see on my website?
8. What are the art forms we can cover to gain more attention?
9. Should we include premium services for art purchase or should it be free?
10. How can we make our website an interacting platform for budding artists?
All the questions that are mentioned above were asked to each participant. I attended
many art exhibitions around my locality and also interacted with many people to gather
information for my website. A brief description of the interviews of the interactions are provided.
Outcomes of the research
I stared the survey by visiting a person near my locality, Mr Steve Jones, who is an art
enthusiast and I am very grateful to him to provide me his precious time. He has collected many

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art works from the nearby art galleries. He has also attended many art fairs and has a lot of
knowledge about arts.
The first question that he was asked was what are his view about the importance art is to
the society, to this his reply was very amazing. The stated that “Art is very important according
to me and I believes that art can reflect the side of a people and the artist, particularly what the
artist is thinking while creating the art work. I think every art is beautiful in its own way.”
The second question to him was why it is important to meet the artists in person, to this
his reply was “The influence an artist can create through his arts works is immense and to
understand the perspective of the work it is important to interact with the artist. There are many
ways an art work can be depicted but the perspective of the artist is very important because he is
the creator if the work.”
In the next question he was asked about the influence of art in his life. The reply from his
side was “After the death of my mother at a very young age I started feeling depressed and
painting gave me another chance to recreate my mind. I started painting and it kept me engaged
and uplifted my thinking process. So, I guess art plays an important role in my life.”
To the next question which was what are his views on the impact of art on the artists and
art lovers. He stated that, “As I mentioned earlier art is very influential in my life and as an art
lover and artist myself I can say that every piece of art is created with utmost important by an
artist. The art lovers around the world try for every possible medium to connect to the artists so
that they can know the artist better. The art lovers always admire the artist and many have stated
that it feels like falling in love with the piece of art as well as the artist.”

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In the fifth question, he was asked about if he know any website that helps to connect art
loves and artist and if he can mention some websites. His response to this was, “Yes, there are
several websites that provide information about artworks from different parts of the world.
Artdaily.org is worth mentioning here, it is known to be the first art newspaper that was started
over the internet. This website provides daily news about the several art works and the
information about the artists from around the globe. One recently started website known as
artsy.net is also a very interactive platform that provides the option to purchase the arts works. It
also includes a project known as ‘the art genome project’, which collects views of different
artists on a particular art work and connect them according to the characteristics which they
named as ‘genes’. There are several other websites that provides an interactive interface like the
3dvas.com and googleartproject.com that provide many information about the artists and the art
works.”
For the next question, he was asked for some suggestions for the website that I was
creating. In the responses he said, “Providing a 3D interactive interface like the 3dvas.com, for
the users with all the functionality of googleartproject.com would be very helpful for the art
lovers and would draw more attention in the market.”
In the very next question he was asked if he wants to see some other features on the
website that I was about to create, that would influence more people to use my website. The
answer to that was, “You can include a chat bot or some chat service through which the users of
the website will be able to connect with the artists and interact with them directly. This can also
help the art lovers to understand the art work precisely from the perspective of the artist.
Creating a huge database is also important. You should be able to produce a lot of information on
your website.”