Grand Opening of Art Wise Wholesale at artwiseonline.com- Wholesale Contemporary Art Topped with Additional Discounts.

Artwiseonline.com the online entity of Art Wise, Inc, now offers everyone from interior decorators to gallery owners, museum shops, and e-tailors discounts off already wholesale priced contemporary posters and prints. Join us for the grand opening of the new Online Shop at artwiseonline.com. For almost 20 years, people have depended on Art Wise. for their poster and prints supplies. artwiseonline.com helps customers to easily find the best website buys available, all in one place.

Further benefits of the new Online Shop at www.artwiseonline.com include -

* The same fine art quality expected of Art Wise, Inc * Free Membership * No minimum order on most items * Discounted merchandise updated regularly * Online exclusive and limited quantity sales

Aside from the bonus discounts now available in the Online Shop, artwiseonline.com has long provided customers with everyday wholesale prices and top notch customer service.

Visit our new Online Shop at at http://www.artwiseonline.com

For more information contact us by phone at TOLL FREE at 800-378-8899(USA and Canada) or 718-788-0791 International. We can also be reached by email at sales@artwiseonline.com

Rare Posters offers Back To School Savings

The countdown is on, fall is coming and that means Back to School. The top high school and college movie posters are all here. Plus, you can save 10% off on all these posters, as well as other select items.

The offer expires on September 21st, 2008, so be sure to take advantage of it. Visit our hand pick selections here: http://www.rareposters.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=category.display&category_id=1722

Since 1990, Rare Posters, Inc. has been distributing hard to find posters, prints, and accessories for their customers worldwide. Rare Posters, Inc. is a niche company, and its strength is in providing an impressive selection of lithographs, limited editions prints, signed items, and high quality serigraphs to those interested in something more than a poster, but less expensive than a painting. By partnering with seasoned art dealers, publishers, and printers throughout the world, Rare Posters is able to provide you with the purchasing power to acquire any one of over 800 highly collected artists. At www.rareposters.com, you will find over 5,000 exclusive items featuring artists such as Basquiat, Rauschenberg, Christo, Warhol, Matisse, Botero, Lichtenstein, and Miro as well as many items hard to find anywhere else. In addition to the e-commerce portion of www.rareposters.com, the site also links to corporate information and company background, as well as external sites for the Art Wise Wholesale Art Service and the Rare Prints Online Fine Art Service. Items can be ordered directly online, or by calling toll free 800-378-8899(USA and Canada) or 718-788-0791 (International).

If you need assistance or are interested in a certain piece, don't hesitate to contact Rare Posters directly at sales@rareposters.com or call toll free 800-378-8899(USA and Canada) or 718-788-0791 International

For more information: http://www.rareposters.com

Contact: Michael Dimino, Head of Internet Sales, Rare Posters, Inc. email: diminomichael@rareposters.com

From July 23-24, Rare Posters Online Auctions will offer 200 modern and contemporary prints by 50 artists including Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Robert Indiana and Andy Warhol with estimates between US $20 and US $1,000.

Collectibles, Antiques, Coins, Toys, Neons July 23, 2008 at 9:00 AM PDT Sign Up for this auction

Leading the sale is an outstanding group of works by Andy Warhol ranging from the artist's 1960s to his 1980s work. Among the highlights in the Collectibles, Antiques, Coins, Toys, Neons are a series large sized circus posters, very bright and colorful lithographs straight from the big top. We are also featuring a mixed selection of vintage posters from the 20th century in this event. You will be able to purchase out of print original movie posters from some of the greatest movies ever made, such as on the Waterfront with Brando, and Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor. Vintage travel posters promoting tourism are also being offered, as well as a collection of vintage advertising posters from the 20th century, and politically charged vintage World War II propaganda.

Affordable Fine Art Originals & Prints July 24, 2008 at 9:00 AM PDT Sign Up for this auction

In a market in which prices for many modern and contemporary works have reached stratospheric levels, our Affordable Fine Art Originals & Prints auction offers collectors the opportunity to acquire works by renowned artists at relatively affordable estimates. We are pleased to offer an exceptional range of works of modern, contemporary, and pop art at this special event. Modern artists such as Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso, among others, are represented. A diverse selection of contemporary prints can also be found at great prices, including works by Jeff Koons, and Richard Serra. Pop artists featured in the sale on July 24th are Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana and Robert Rauschenberg, and other renowned artists all being offered a very affordable prices.

How To Participate

It's easy to participate. Simply click this Sign Up link to register. Anyone who places an absentee bid will be notified via email if they have been outbid. Of course, you can preview the Affordable Fine Art Originals & Prints Live Auction catalog or any of our exciting live auction catalogs at any time

rareposters.com is proud to announce new member benefits that will appeal to art enthusiasts everywhere. The new rareposters.com membership program gives members an additional 10% savings and free $30 off their first purchase for a limited time.

Use this special member's only code in the shopping cart to redeem your gift: rare2008

Saving time and money are important to everyone, especially these days. rareposters.com is aware of this and is continually adapting to customer needs and wants by introducing these new benefits. Customer feedback has been positive:

"I just wanted to thank you for all your help. We love our posters and have directed everyone we know to your web site. THANK YOU!" says one happy customer named Laura.

Membership is all that is needed to take advantage of these new services and savings on high quality Rare Art. Registering is easy and free using the My Account link at the top of the home page of rareposters.com. One only needs to select create an account under the login in area, enter their name and email address, and click on the sign up button. Once signed in, members will automatically save 10% off all items. In addition, we run frequent members only promotions

Along with the benefits of saving 10%, the member's area offers much more. Signing in will allow customers to add items to their own wish list where they can keep track of everything that they want and also email their wants to friends and family. Membership also allows customers to create an affiliate account inside of their new account area that gives them a commission on referrals. . Customers can also view their order history or compete in contests and games for prizes. They will also receive the member's only bi-weekly rareposters.com special newsletters.

All art enthusiasts are invited to become a member today to take advantage of these new services from rareposters.com.

The surreal stylings of Spanish painter Joan Miró are at the center of this this month's Artiast Spotlight. A contemporary of Pablo Picasso, Miró was as imaginative as he was prolific, producing thousands of whimsical and colorful works throughout his life. Our inventory showcases approximately 130 pieces of the the work of pioneer European Joan Miro, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth-century.
Joan Miro was born April 20, 1893, in Barcelona. At the age of 14, he went to business school in Barcelona and also attended La Lonja's Escuela Superior de Artes Industriales y Bellas Artes in the same city. Upon completing three years of art studies, he took a position as a clerk. After suffering a nervous breakdown, he abandoned business and resumed his art studies, attending Francesc Galí's Escola d'Art in Barcelona from 1912 to 1915. Miró received early encouragement from the dealer José Dalmau, who gave him his first solo show at his gallery in Barcelona in 1918. In 1917 he met Francis Picabia.

rareposters.com Joan Miro Collection
He attended drawing sessions of the Sant Lluch Circle, where the architect Gaudi had been a student. In 1916 he visited an exhibition of French art organized by Vollard in Barcelona. During this time Miro met many influential figures of the art world, such as F. Picabia, the founder of the Dada review "391," Marie Laurencin, and Max Jacob. He had his first exhibition in 1918 at the Gallery Dalmau, and in the same year became a member of the Agrupacio Courbet, a group of young painters around Artigas. He painted "detailist" landscapes at this time. Then in 1919 Miro took his first visit to Paris, where he met and became friends with Picasso. He spent the subsequent winters in Paris, returning to Montroig with his family for the summer. At the end of 1920 he took a studio at 45 rue Blomet in Paris.
His first Paris exhibition in 1921, organized by Dalmau at the Galerie La Licorne was a complete failure. Until his next exhibition in 1923 Miro established a close relationship with the neighboring artists surrounding his studio in Paris; and with Henry Miller and Hemingway. Then in 1924 he joined Andre Breton Louis Aragon, and Paul Eluard in the Surrealist group, and in 1925 took part in the Surrealist exhibition at Galerie Pierre. During the years that followed he lived next to and worked closely with Max, Ernst, Magritte, Eluard, and Arp, he was married in 1930 to Pilar Juncosa on October 12th, and continued exhibiting with the Surrealists from New York to London.
After the outbreak of war in Spain in 1936 he left, not to return for four years. He had 22 works included in the International Surrealist exhibition in the same year, at the New Burlington Galleries in London. In 1940 while beginning his Constellations series finished the next year, Miro returned to Paris in the face of the advancing German army. He returned to Spain that same year. In 1942 Miro returned to live in Barcelona, he begins to work with ceramics in collaboration with Artigas. He makes his first visit to the United States in 1947, and returns to Paris the next year where he produced numerous engravings and lithographs.

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Rare Posters Inc announces its 2008 Spring Modern and Contemporary Art Auction

Rare Posters Inc, one of New York's premier antiques and fine art providers, announces its Spring Modern and Contemporary Art Auction, being on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008. Up for auction are over 500 works on paper - prints, posters, drawings, and books –by well-known contemporary artists. Whether you are a new collector or an established one, there's something here for everyone. The works will be on view from May 1 to May 21 at an "Auction Preview" at Universal Collectibles Live Auction Website, online at http://live.universal-collectibles.com/p_ds/?d=event&eid=506&ssn=1096584135 (Look for the rareposters.com logo.) Early bids will be accepted throughout the preview period.

"This event is an incredible opportunity to acquire the works of the world's premier artists of the 20th century," said Bernard Roguerie, President and founder of Rare Posters, Inc. "We are blessed to be associated with both and this occasion should not be missed."

Some of the artists include: Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, Roy Lichtenstein, Henri Matisse, Benton Spruance, Toulouse Lautrec, Jean Dubuffet, Auguste Renoir, Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Miro, Claes Oldenburg, Saul Steinberg, Keith Haring, Jacob Lawrence, Emily Eveleth, David Hockney , Bernard Buffet, Fernando Botero, and A.M. Cassandre.

Headlining the fine art category is a Framed Limited Edition Signed by Roy Lichtenstein (Est. $32000 - $40000). Collectors covet Lichtenstein's meticulous and remarkably accurate depictions of popular advertising, and he is considered among the foremost artists of the 20th Century. Lichtenstein's work as well as contemporaries such as Warhol holds relevance today and many of the messages portrayed can be directly linked to modern day life.

"It's a pleasure to be able to offer such rare and beautiful art" comments Rougerie. "We are always looking for items to feature in our auctions."

Opening bids range from $50 to $25,000 -- with many opening bids at a fraction of retail gallery prices. It's easy to participate. Simply click on the Sign Up link at, live.universal-collectibles.com/p_ds/Default.aspx?d=event&eid=506&ssn=1096584135 to register. Anyone who places an absentee bid will be notified via email if they have been outbid.

Since 1990, Rare Posters, Inc. has been distributing hard to find posters, prints, and accessories for their customers worldwide. Rare Posters, Inc. is a niche company, and its strength is in providing an impressive selection of lithographs, limited editions prints, signed items, and high quality serigraphs to those interested in something more than a poster, but less expensive than a painting. By partnering with seasoned art dealers, publishers, and printers throughout the world, Rare Posters is able to provide you with the purchasing power to acquire any one of over 800 highly collected artists. At www.rareposters.com, you will find over 5,000 exclusive items featuring artists such as Basquiat, Rauschenberg, Christo, Warhol, Matisse, Botero, Lichtenstein, and Miro as well as many items hard to find anywhere else. In addition to the e-commerce portion of www.rareposters.com, the site also links to corporate information and company background, as well as external sites for the Art Wise Wholesale Art Service and the Rare Prints Online Fine Art Service. Items can be ordered directly online, or by calling toll free 800-378-8899(USA and Canada) or 718-788-0791 (International).

To find out more contact: Michael Dimino – Head of Internet Sales Rare Posters, Inc 135 Plymouth Street, Unit 412 High Brooklyn, New York 11201 Email: diminomichael@rareposters.com Tel: 718-788-0791 www.rareposters.com