TechCrunch excerpt is below as well as info from the Artfinder website:
From TechCrunch
Artfinder has partnered with galleries, libraries, museums and artists worldwide to build an extremely comprehensive online catalogue of fine art featuring over 250,000 works from over 400 institutions. I’ve seen the demo and it’s pretty amazing – and you can too as the site goes live today.
Users create their own ‘art gallery’, collect favourite artworks, and share them with their friends via Facebook, Twitter and email.
Although this sounds like an obvious move, believe me, finding the art and dealing with all the galleries in question is a real barrier to entry which Artfinder appears to have cracked.
It’s also partnering with museums, galleries and artists to create create discovery and marketing apps for smartphones and tablet devices like the iPad. Artfinder will look georgeous on a Retina screen.
The revenue model is from the sales of apps, original artworks and print-on-demand items such as posters and postcards, and the startup has cut rev share deals with museums, libraries, artists and galleries.
From the Artfinder site.
Artfinder is an exciting new concept for discovering, experiencing and sharing art.
Artfinder gives you access to hundreds of thousands of paintings from artists, galleries, museums and collections around the world. With our growing number of images, artist biographies, guides and articles, learning about your favourite artists and works, and discovering new ones, has never been easier.
With Artfinder, you can start building your own art profile, receive personalised recommendations based on the art you like, and share and discuss art with friends via Facebook and Twitter.
Click HERE to visit Artfinder, or HERE to read the TechCrunch article.
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