Asian Art Crowd-sourcing & Trading Platform, Artyii, Raises 0.5 Million From Art Angels

Online, December 19, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Founded by 2 college graduates and based in Singapore, Artyii (www.artyii.com) is a platform that showcases emerging Asian art to the world. With a severe lack of channels for thousands of emerging paint artists in Asia to showcase their work, Artyii allows artists to price and sell their works on their platform fairly. Already, artists are being picked up by galleries and Artyii is moving to assist hospitality and F&B businesses to crowd-source and commission gallery grade wall paintings for their properties at good prices.

Already, emerging and extremely talented artists are screaming for attention on their blogs and social networking sites and most galleries are still sticking to traditional offline referral methods to pick up promising artists.

Their platform (www.artyii.com), represents a replication of that referral model - online. Based in Singapore, Artyii's focus is on Asian art.

Working on an "Invite Only" basis, all artists have to apply for an invitation before being able to list with Artyii, and a panel of art professionals will vet through their online application to determine a certain level of skill and talent.

Once in, they're able to invite their artist friends and start putting up their works for sale, if they choose to. For the artist, its totally free to join and Artyii only earns a small commission by faciliating the payment and logistics if a sale is made.

Launched in December 2010, Artyii is already growing in artists eager to be recognised. Their facebook page is already teeming with activity as artists stream in, from Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia.

Art professionals are welcomed to join the community as well. The benefits to joining as an art professional would be exclusive access to Artyii's database of artists and free publicity of their projects to a very targeted market of artists and art buyers.

While many would still prefer to physically see and buy art at their local gallery, co-founder, Shannon, shares that for the wallet friendly original pieces that Artyii carries, buying art online is becoming less of a concern for the modern, younger art lover.

Moreover he says, "On Artyii, you get to know the artist and his story on a very personal level, to see his complete profile and even see art professionals' comments on his pieces before you make a informed decision on your purchase."

He goes on, "We try to be an independent platform where there's no conflict of interest when selling someone a piece."

If you're a first time art buyer or someone looking for quality, original wall paintings for your home or office, you now know where to go.