The Saatchi Gallery online is a website designed to be an online art gallery. I personally think the Saatchi Gallery Online is a revolutionary publication. It provides a huge step forward in the way we view art. This is entirely due to its use of the internet. By using the web, not only does it provide a place for unknown artists to showcase their work and become more widely recognized, but also makes art more available to the general public. Despite, the different quality of the pieces when they are being viewed digitally to in reality, I feel this way of viewing art is still very successful and important. Of course seeing the actual piece is a rewarding thing to do (as you probably know after seeing the difference between viewing art in book and in reality) but I feel making the work more widely known, so more people experience the work is very important. Websites such as this, encourage more people to look at art and appreciate it and might encourage them to pursue this interest further by visiting galleries in reality as well as electronically.
The website is easy to access both from the point of view of an artist exhibiting and an art viewer and is already one of the most visited websites on the web. Today when I accessed the site it had 63, 396,792 hits in the last 24 hours and was ranked 339 in the world's top 50,000 sites. There is also so much more to the site than just exhibiting and viewing the art with chatrooms to visit, online sales taking places and help and support for art students and up and coming artists.
I think a truly inspirational way to approach the viewing of art.
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