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The historic capital of England as well as a forward-looking city, London is the world’s most visited city for a reason. Its cultural and artistic offerings keep visitors coming back for more, from hit musicals in the West End to the capital’s unbeatable nightlife taking the London experience well into the night.

Although London is an ultra-modern city, its historical attractions continue to be a major draw for many visitors, from the extensive collections at the British Museum, which is free to enter, to impressive landmarks such as St Paul’s Cathedral, just across the river from the London Eye – still the UK’s top paid-for visitor attraction and the perfect way to see the city in all its glory.

London’s galleries also showcase many aspects of the city’s artistic traditions, as well as those from around the world. The Tate Modern is one of the city’s most popular attractions, housing challenging and innovative works in a converted power station, while the National Portrait Gallery contains many priceless works.

Not that a trip to London has to be all about exploring old buildings, of course, especially with the extensive calendar of events meaning there’s bound to be something happening in the city whatever time of year you take trains to London. As an international city, London’s events celebrate its multicultural heritage and diverse communities, from the Bastille Day Garden Party in honour of our neighbours across the Channel to Pride London, the UK’s biggest event for the LGBT community that takes place each summer and features a whole host of performances in Trafalgar Square.

There’s plenty to do in London when the sun goes down too, whether you’re keen to take in an award-winning musical in the West End, such as Grease or Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera sequel Love Never Dies, or if your interest is piqued by the city’s fashionable nightspots like Stringfellows. Food connoisseurs will also find flavours to please all taste-buds at restaurants owned by some of the world’s foremost chefs.

One rising area of tourism that London has been keen to emphasise in the lead-up to the 2012 Olympics is its sporting attractions, with the new Olympic Park being declared a world-leading sports venue in various polls, putting London ahead of the international competition. Football fans can attend games of the city’s most successful team Arsenal at Emirates Stadium, just north of Central London and easily reached on the Underground, while the southern boroughs of Twickenham and Wimbledon are also top destinations for their famous associated sports.

Everyone is living in a universal age, where reaching out to anybody, anywhere in the world is a subject of few minutes.

Earlier the circulation of art was limited to informal efforts, but now with the help of online art galleries, art has traversed all boundaries, showcasing the art of primarily Indian artists from multiple generations in diverse mediums.

Through online art galleries there is a chance for everyone to make a universal score with innovative originality of imagination. Artists who are not acknowledged for their work in their own land can have guaranteed followers in some other land without even owning a passport or a visa for that land.

Thus the online art galleries can be termed as websites or web portals created by web designers dedicated to art in different forms. These can also be termed as a medium to exhibit one’s work. The online art galleries thus provide a worldwide online market to the artists.

Many online Indian art galleries display finest collection of contemporary and traditional art that includes work of India’s most sorts after artists. The range of art includes upcoming artists, art collectors, art experts, art lovers, architects, interior designers and many more.

There are some Indian art galleries that host Indian paintings, art gallery and other artwork of this genre.  Apart from the information about the artwork, these online Indian art galleries includes the sizes and prices of the various arts displayed over the net. Thus, these art galleries act as online art advertisement stores.

However, there are certain galleries that only exhibit the artwork, but do not sell anything. They work as online exhibition centers for people around the world to see various artworks. Some online art galleries just work as a forum for art enthusiasts, sellers, students, etc., to learn about the existing art forms around the world. Thus, artists have a choice between the online art gallery to sell artwork and the ones that simply function as a forum for artists from across the world.

In fact, a number of art gallery owners host art and art shows online providing complete exposure to different artists. This is an important aspect, as earlier artists used to struggle to get international exposure. The online art galleries are created according to the artist’s works, with backgrounds, fonts and text changing to befit the paintings or artwork put up.

 

There are others who educate people and create awareness on the impact of art on everyday living and the effects of having good arts in homes and offices. There are some others who aim at educating the people differentiate between good and bad art work. For these the art galleries have discussion forums, write-ups and art appreciation workshops.

Thus these online Indian art galleries are dedicated towards the effort of presenting a well-balanced infusion of art education and interactive art experiences with a widespread visibility to artists. Thus the online art galleries carry forward the practice of supporting a dialogue with the viewers at the level of artistic perception while also simplifying the process of buying art and bridging the gap between the art world and the art market.

Zhang Huan was born on 1965 in Yang City, He Nan Province, China he Lives and works in New York, China. After he was born, he moved to the country with his paternal grandmother and three brothers and lived there for about eight years. It was in important experience as it allowed him to grow up with nature and develop a direct relationship with it, with no inhibitions. He only went back to An Yang later and it was a pretty radical move, as it’s a fairly big city, about five million people. He moved to Beijing a lot later. The first years spent in the city were pretty dramatic. I was very undisciplined, especially at school and a terrible student. I couldn’t concentrate; they were always throwing me out. I couldn’t stay shut up in a room, I wanted to be free. So I spent most of my time alone drawing. In a certain way that’s how it began.

Three years in making, Donkey was completed in 2006 and was the very first mechanical installation Zhang Huan made after he transferred part of his artistic production from New York back to Shanghai. The artist was both overwhelmed and dismayed by the overbearing and standardized presence of high-rises in the city. Other works such as the well-known To Raise the Water Level in a Fishpond, which took place on August 15, 1997, involved the participation of other performers. Forty or more participants, recent migrants to Beijing from other parts of China, were invited to walk into the pond in order to raise the water level, an absurd gesture that nonetheless underscores the far reaching effects of even the slightest movement or gesture.

While the move to America and the rapid growth of his international reputation enabled Zhang to work on increasingly ambitious scale ( Hard to Acclimatize/My America , 1999, held at the Seattle Art Museum and My Australia , 2000, held at the National Gallery of Australia) , he still continued to produce works in which he was the sole participant. Peace was produced shortly after his best-known work Family Tree and shares some of the same preoccupations.

Conclusions:

After Zhang Huan was born, he moved to the country with his paternal grandmother and three brothers and lived there for about eight years. He had already established his own style and the impact of the work had won him a strong reputation in Chinese art circles…

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