BEL ART PROJECT - Fine Art . Art Directory. Contemporary Artists. Original Paintings

<body>   <div style="float: right"> <p align="center" style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0"><font size="1">  <script type="text/javascript">  </script> <script type="text/javascript" src= "http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </font></p> </div> <h1 style="text-align: center; margin-top:6px; margin-bottom:0"> <b><font face="Verdana" size="3">ABOUT US</font></b></h1> <h2 style="text-align: center; margin-top:6px; margin-bottom:0"> <b><font color="#800000" size="1">Bel Art Project is exclusively dedicated to art and</font> <span lang="EN-GB" style= "font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: maroon; "><font size= "1">pursuits three main goals :</font></span></b></h2> <ul style="font-weight: bold"> <li> <h3 align="center" style= "margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:0;text-align:center"> <span style="font-weight: 400"><font face="Verdana" size="1"><font color="#800000"><b><span style= "font-family: Bookman Old Style">T</span></b></font><b><span lang= "EN-GB" style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: maroon; ">o develop a community</span> <span lang="EN-GB" style= "color: maroon; font-family:Bookman Old Style">of artists and galleries around the world, supporting their efforts with free resources to promote their art sites ,</span></b></font></span></h3> </li> <li> <h4 align="center" style= "margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:0;text-align:center"> <font face="Verdana" size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style= "font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: maroon; ">To provide a guaranteed quality tour and an easy access to the best art related sites in the world of art,</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style= "color: maroon; font-family:Bookman Old Style">and</span></b></span></font></h4> </li> <li> <p align="center" style= "margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:0;text-align:center"> <b><font face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style= "color: maroon; font-family:Bookman Old Style"><font size="1">To promote the oil and acrylic paintings on canvas carried through by</font></span></font><span lang="en-gb"><font face="Verdana" color="#800000"><span style="font-style: normal"><font size= "1">Manuel Penha da Graca</font></span></font></span></b></p> </li> </ul> <h5 style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0" align="center"> <b><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#800000" size="1" face= "Verdana">The project includes several programs suitable to the contemporary artists members issues, focused in helping art sites to achieve relevant listings in search engines results and in simplify art lover's searches .</font></span></b></h5> <p style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0" align="center"><font size="1"> </font> <span lang="en-gb"><b><font size="1" color= "#800000" face="Verdana">Artists and galleries may <a href= "awards1.htm"><font color="#000080">apply to Bel Art Award Program</font></a> a very special seal of excellence, increase web exposure by <a href="webring1.htm"><font color= "#000080">joining  Webrings</font></a></font><font size="1" color="#000080" face="Verdana">,</font> <font size="1" color= "#800000" face="Verdana">or simply participating at Bel Art Artists Partners , a</font> <a href="artistspartners.htm"><font color= "#000080" size="1" face="Verdana">link exchange program</font></a><font size="1" color="#800000" face= "Verdana">.</font></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style= "font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: maroon; "><b><font size="1" face="Verdana"> any gallery or artists with a relevant presence in the web is welcome . Each program has its own specific requirements according the main art medium used or the level of art notoriety achieved.</font></b></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0" align="center"> <b><span lang="en-gb"><font color="#800000" size="1" face= "Verdana">Common visitors may also surf  links to the most relevant art resources , international  museums , galleries and art directories, give an overview at art history and classic masters paintings,  browse some top hit lists of  art related sites and give a glance at an exclusive art gallery of oil and acrylic paintings on canvas.</font></span></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0" align="center"> <b><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style= "color: maroon; font-family:Bookman Old Style">Bel Art Project</span> <span lang="EN-GB" style= "font-family: Bookman Old Style; color: maroon; ">is a non profit initiative. There are absolutely no costs to join. Regular art links or references are totally free of charges. Special placements of the links displayed in some programs, may require a fee. Other resources listed at several pages Bel Art Project may be sponsored. Those are clearly marked. The income generated from those, reverts in the benefit of the community through investments in web promotion .</span></font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0" align="center"><font color="#800000" size="1" face="Verdana"><span lang="EN-GB" style= "FONT-FAMILY: Bookman Old Style; font-weight:700">The content of Bel Art Project is not offensive by common sense, or illegal by international laws.</span></font></p> <div> <h6 style="text-align: center"><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="3"><span lang="EN-GB" style= "color: #800000; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: 700; text-transform:uppercase"> Brief notes about Bel Art Project History</span></font></h6> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:6px; margin-bottom:0" align="center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style= "color: #800000; font-family: Verdana"><font size="1">The original site Bel Art Project was developed in 2003 with the single purpose of simplifying the compilation of the artwork photographs that the author was collecting. The only page available was the art gallery page.</font></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:6px; margin-bottom:0" align="center"><b><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size= "1"><span lang="EN-GB" style= "color: #800000; font-family: Verdana"> </span></font> <span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana"><font size="1">It was quickly retooled when the artist acknowledged that it would make no sense to keep the art gallery sealed and disabled to the general public.</font></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:6px; margin-bottom:0" align="center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style= "color: #800000; font-family: Verdana"><font size="1">The on line art gallery took off and was later to become a personal online auction. Since that time it has been permanently impacted by those small free features captured in the internet to enrich the sites content and promote the exhibition.</font></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:6px; margin-bottom:0" align="center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style= "color: #800000; font-family: Verdana"><font size="1">The developments on the art gallery have made it more visited each time. Soon other contemporary artists met it, and several required to be a member, in order to value their art sites and benefit with some new visitors sent by Bel Art Project.  Good ranks help their promotion on the web and probably their art sales. Among them were galleries, famous artists and emerging painters, of all genres from landscape, abstract or impressionist to figurative, illustration or portraits, and all mediums from pencil drawing and sketch to oil, watercolours and acrylic painting. Artwork on canvas got the largest share. But deco, pop and religious art or reproduction prints marked their presence.</font></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:6px; margin-bottom:0" align="center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style= "color: #800000; font-family: Verdana"><font size="1">Bel Art Project had now the ability to build a valuable, intuitive database of artists on a global scale made available to the common person. This create more traffic to all linked art sites which helped to promote  fine arts in the web and valuing our own sites with no need to recur to large paid professional art directories and art resources.</font></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:6px; margin-bottom:0" align="center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style= "color: #800000; font-family: Verdana"><font size="1">At that time has become more relevant the web award program, which winner artists exhibits the Bel Art Excellence Award at their creative sites, and the specialized art web rings begun growing up daily. Those two features definitely launch the Bel Art Project in the web modern art circle.</font></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:6px; margin-bottom:0" align="center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style= "color: #800000; font-family: Verdana"><font size="1">Next step was to upgrade resources offered to the common visitors. They go away with a positive experience only to return again and again as the relationship grows into a friendship.</font></span> <font size= "1"><font color="#800000">Often they have became Artists Partners</font></font></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:6px; margin-bottom:0" align="center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style= "color: #800000; font-family: Verdana"><font size="1">The new pages dedicated to classic masters of paintings, to the museums, art resources , galleries, directories and art centres, or the art sites top lists, brought great benefit to visitors success in their quest to find the best art sites in this brave new world of the web.</font></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:6px; margin-bottom:0" align="center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style= "color: #800000; font-family: Verdana"><font size= "1"> </font></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:6px; margin-bottom:0" align="center"><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style= "color: #800000; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: 700">Manuel Penha da Graca</span></font></p> </div> <p style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0" align="center">  </p> <p style="margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 0" align="center"><font color="#800000" size="1"><b>Terms associated with this topic include :</b><i><b>oil paintings gallery, acrylic paintings gallery, contemporary painters gallery, art directories, paintings exhibition, artists resources, art sales, art top directories, art webrings, contemporary painters, canvas artwork, art award winner artists, masters painters, contemporary artists, modern artists, fine art gallery, museums, famous paintings</b></i></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style= "font-family:Bookman Old Style;color:#800000; font-weight:700">The Bel Art Web Project, Copyright © 2004-2006 by M. 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