Carlos Fentanes
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What is Art?
Why do I make art and why I’m keep making it?The simple answer is I don’t know, I don’t even know what art is and what an artwork should have in order to be called “Art”. What do I know then? Well, I make doodles and people tell me that this is art. Why? Why…
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How to sell your Art on Instagram
Last year she was a starving artist working as a waitress and living from tips in a moldy basement and now she’s a successful artist with more than a million followers and showing her work in the main galleries of New York, London and Hong Kong, her work has been auctioned for more than a…
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Murder at Tiktok Street
Last year, popular local artist, Jane Doe, had it all: a growing TikTok following, a successful art business, and a bright future. But when one of her videos is flagged and removed by the platform, her account is shadowbanned, and her following stagnates. Frustrated and resentful, Jane becomes increasingly vocal in her criticism of the…
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Secrets of my technique
Every week I started a new paragraph that supposedly will be in my blog, but I never finish, actually I barely start. So, in this small paragraphs I talk about why I paint, art fairs, drawing techniques and an endless chain of other stuff, but why I never finish them?I’m trying to generate ideas about…
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The Naming of Artworks
One of the first songs in the musical Cats from Lloyd Webber is about the Naming of Cats, a difficult matter indeed. Right now, I have a difficult time trying to name a work of art and I remembered that poem of T S Eliot that Lloyd Weber took for his musical, I’m going to…
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Art collectors and Art scammers
I receive a letter, it was a very suspicious letter about my art and I want to share it with you, here it is, including names: Johnson Moore <johnsonmre4222@gmail.com> My name is Johnson Moore, from Washington, DC city I have been on the lookout for some artworks lately in regards to I and my wife’s anniversary…
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To NFT or not to NFT
I have been trying to understand the term Non-Fungible Token (NFT), its concept in the art world and its function with a work of art. As a concept I can get it but when it is transformed to a valuable work of art, I really don’t get it. It seems to me that It is…
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What Is an Ex-Voto?
So, I was invited for an exhibition next summer with the theme: Contemporary Ex-Votos and I have to send an image by February 12 in order to be included in the catalog. But what is an Ex-Voto and what is its relevance? According to Wikipedia : An ex-voto is a votive offering to a saint or to a divinity; the term is…
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Countdown: 65 days until delivering my next painting.
After my 100 days project something change inside me, I was the same but at the same time I feel that I have more control on what I am doing as an artist, and little by little I started to participate in art shows here in Canada and in the USA. I moved to Toronto…
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Would you give booze to an alcoholic?
My name is Carlos, and I am artist. I have seen some movies and read novels about AA meetings and it seems that they start introducing themselves and acknowledging that they are addicts. Being an artist is a kind of addiction? Sometimes I found myself at the stationary department at the superstore buying pens even…
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