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Are you looking forward to entering your art work into a contest? Well these tips might just be what you want.

There are some things you need to put into consideration before you actually go into the competition and present your work.

You need to first make sure that the work you present is your best. Am assuming that you probably have a number of art works and also have a favorite one. You also have to bring something that best presents you. That way, you will be able to explain your work if the need arises.

Photograph your work as that is what the juror will use to judge you art. Once you are in the art competitions, you need to present the art work the best way possible. This means that you have to have the best frame and stand to impress the juror. A good frame also makes your work fine and if some one happens to like your work ad would like to buy it, they usually want something that they will take home directly and hang.

Always enter a number of pieces that you will be able to present. This means that if you can only handle one; don’t bring two into the art contests.

murano glass Italy has been a known name for centuries. The fine pieces of jewelry made from murano glass have amazed people with their fine craftsmanship and unique properties to such extent that they proclaimed it to be a work of art. Luckily the art of making murano glass jewelry has been kept through the years and nowadays anyone can choose from many pieces of murano glass jewelry when looking for something chic and elegant.

Today, murano glass offers the finest forms of jewelry, art and decor. The craftsmanship that is has makes each one of the glass patterns from the murano glass beads seem unique and if this fine glass look is combined with a brilliant design then we have one stunning piece of jewelry.

The special look and color of the murano glass comes from special techniques used only by the glassmakers from the murano island near Venice. These techiques have been passed from generation to generation and each glassmaker added his own touch to his works.

Finally, another thing that comes in handy nowadays about the murano glass Italy is that although the murano glass jewelry looks marvelous it is after all made from glass and glass is by far least expensive then other materials used in the crafting of jewels such as silver and gold. That doesn’t mean that all murano glass jewelry and home decoration items come at a low price. Depending on the manufacturer, a piece crafted by someone with hundreds of years of tradition will cost accordingly.

So if you enjoy the fine look of glass combined with a background of history and tradition the murano glass jewelry and murano glass artwork will surely impress you with their elegant and fashionable style. Just search the internet and you will find many fine jewelry items.

Andy Warhol (real name Andrzej Warhola),was born on 6th of August, 1928 in Forest City (Pennsylvania) in a family of Czechoslovak emigrants.

In 1949, Warhol graduated from Pittsburgh Carnegie Institute of Technology with a diploma of the artist-designer. After he moved to New York city, Andy Warhol changed his name to and worked in designer stores: ‘Tiffany & Co’, ‘Bonvit Teller’ as well as in magazines ‘Vogue’ and ‘Glamour’. Working in advertising has brought success and Warhol bought a house in Manhattan.

After the exhibition of drawings for Campbell’s canned soup company, held in Los Angeles in 1962, Andy Warhol’s work became famous. By 1963, Warhol began to use silkscreen method, and the most of his works performed in this manner.

Warhol’s most important works include: ‘Marilyn Monroe’, ‘Elvis Presley’, ‘John Wayne’, ‘Campbell’s soup cans’. Although it’s really hard to find Andy Warhol prints in high resolution, it is still possible.

Highlighting the aspect of mass production, Warhol called his studio “The Factory” In the same period, Warhol began to direct movies.

In 1980 Warhol began to take more orders and commercial orders for advertising. At that period he made a lot of paintings that are available now as Andy Warhol posters.

Andy Warhol died Feb. 22, 1987 in his sleep of a heart attack in Cornwall Medical Center in Manhattan the next day after gallbladder removal surgery