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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
 The gallery promotes feminist, political and gothic/fantasy art that makes some form of social commentary. We exhibit online in six major languages (and we'll be adding more languages in the future).Because we do it for free and its a daunting task to translate biographies and artist statements into extra languages we limit ourselves to only those artists we feel meet all of our thematic and professional requirements (ie. an artist with only 3 pieces in their portfolio for example would be politely encouraged to keep painting/sculpting/etc and come back when they've built a stronger portfolio). The Art History Archive This archive is being compiled to serve as a library of information about different artistic movements, art groups and specific artists. Its purpose is to educate people about the different movements and show people that there are other movements worth looking at, and specific artists that users may never have heard of. We realize that art teachers in highschools and even professors in universities tend to gloss over these movements and forget about them. Thus this archive is endeavouring to include EVERY art movement worthy of mention, no matter how small. Fair Use Policy We subscribe to the Fair Use Policy in which educational tools are exempt from copyright. We respect the rights of the artists but also believe in the higher goal of providing the broadest range of educational material for our audience. We will not censor works of art from our database because we believe censorship of specific artists only leads to lack of knowledge of such artists. It is an often held complaint that art galleries don't show enough works by female artists (for example). Many times it is because the artists in question refused to give copyright permission (or was unavailable to give it) to those involved, and thus was inadvertantly censored. We shall endeavour to show works regardless, as stated under the terms of Fair Use. We will not be attempting to contact artists we show either. There are simply too many out there and artists are reclusive creatures anyway. We also will be including articles written on various artistic topics and various contemporary artists. Because often the author is unknown or dead we will not be taking the time to ask the person for their permission. When you see a modern sportscar or supercar there are often two things that immediately come to mind: "My god what a waste of money!" and "Gee, I wish I was that rich!" They are in essence our dream cars. They look incredibly beautiful/powerful (and usually has the engine/interior to match its good looks) but we all know that sportscars and supercars are far from practical. Lets start by comparing the different sportscars available (please keep in mind we are analyzing the cars for artistic merit, not whether the car is any good): Sportscars Aston Martin: [British] Expensive, reliable, incredibly powerful engines. Most famous for its role in James Bond movies Aston Martin is the epitome of British sportscars. My personal favourite is the 1976 Aston Martin Vantage. Contact: 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 Phone: (416) 736-3687
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