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Why Should An Artist Participate In Art Competitions?

Artists are some of the most productive and creative person among all other professions. Competition in the world of art is growing day by day and one needs to prove talent as an artist to sustain their passion.

Completed Competition    

DeadLine

15

November, 2021

Global Online Art Competition Series 2

Award Date 30, November 2021

YOU COULD WIN $150

Acceptable Artwork - Painting in Watercolor
Submission Completed
DeadLine

25

September, 2021

Global Online Art Competition Series 1

Award Date 29, September 2021

YOU COULD WIN $200

Acceptable Artwork - Painting in Oil and Acrylic
Submission Completed

Participants Name    

Name
Name
Crystal Cioccio Jarnagin, United States
Manoj Sika, India
Reshmi Adhikari, India
ARCHANA DEVI P, India

Why Should An Artist Participate In Art Competitions?



Artists are some of the most productive and creative person among all other professions. To build your career as an artist is a fairly challenging and tough decision. Competition in the world of art is growing day by day and one needs to prove talent as an artist to sustain their passion. Your work needs to be seen to gain popularity. You need to evaluate your art and make essential improvements continuously to grow as an artist. One of the best ways to break into the world of art is by participating in art competitions.

These art competitions can prove to be a boon for as :

1. Motivation
The feeling of being in a competition, the tension and excitement will send creative sparks rushing through your body. Participating in competition will make you challenge yourself and in the race of delivering the best art piece, you’ll probably end up painting, shooting or writing your best art piece. Entering into a competition can also motivate you to exit your comfort zone and try something entirely new that you’ve never thought of doing before. When in a contest, you’re constantly challenged to do more and better. There’s no better motivation than to enter in an art contest.

2. Exposure
One of the sure-shot ways to gain popularity in the world of art is taking home the trophy to an art competition. It is a given that networking is a significant factor when it comes to growing as an artist. Entering in an art contest will open all the doors of networking for an artist. It will provide you with a fair chance to you for displaying your art to the world. It doesn’t matter if you win the competition or not, your art is seen and appreciated. Even though you don’t crack a competition, maybe your art will attract itself a buyer or a promoter. And if you do win the contest, you won’t just get a huge exposure but you’ll probably also end up winning money or some cool gifts.

3. Evaluation
Why do we have exams? So that we can evaluate our knowledge about something right? Well, entering into an art contest works similarly for an artist. The judges of such competitions will always be the experts or professionals in their field. When they see your work, even though they won’t always be able to tell you all the right things to do, they can sure tell you about all the things you did wrong. This proves to be a practically efficient way of analyzing and improving your art. Art contest judges may also grace you with important advice and ideas to improve your work plus their feedback.Thus, evaluation of your work is possible through participating in art competitions, and it will help your art to get better day by day.

4. Building a portfolio
Many artists initially do engage in making a portfolio but later forget to keep it updated. Having a nice and up-to-date portfolio when an opportunity arrives is crucial for an artist. Competitions manage to push artists to take proper pictures of all their artworks and maintain a cool, impressive portfolio. Being ready for every other opportunity is significant and maintaining a portfolio is the most primary thing for that. Entering into a competition will make sure you’re ready for any opportunity that may knock at the door.

5. Practice
When you participate in an art competition, it encourages you . Practice makes one perfect and the reason to practice will be a choice to submit your art piece in a competition. You’ll be motivated to brush up on all the techniques and experiment on new things. You’ll work to rectify your mistakes. Rigorous practice and dedication are the best ways to excel in your own art.

Don’t bother about winning or losing, see these art contests as a medium to sharpen your art. Such art competitions will help you evaluate and improve your art drastically, we make you reach the best version of yourself. It won’t be wrong to call these art contests as your stepping stone to a fabulous career in art. So what are you waiting for? Go and come for great art competitions and submit your art to Linexart.com

A comprehensive digital platform for artists and talent agencies to connect or collaborate to us

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. All entries, without exception, must be in digital format with the following specifications:
Each image must be at least 72 dpi and 500 KB.
The shortest side of the image must be at least 600 pixels.
All entries must be JPG format.
Each image should not exceed 5MB and should be smaller than 7500 x 7500 pixels.

You can use professional photographs, or you can take digital photographs yourself. You may also scan work directly or from a photograph using a scanner.

Image quality is very important. This is the only exposure to your work jurors will have, and a poor representation (such as a blurred image, or one affected by glare, dim lighting, or unnecessary background objects) may reduce your chances of being selected.

No. To give everyone an equal chance, the competition is judged solely and voting on the basis of the work itself. If you are selected, a biography/résumé and statement will then be needed for the promotion (invitation and catalog).

No, all images must be clear of any copyright information so the identity of all artists remain anonymous. In the interest of fairness, judges will not see names of the artists. Any images that do contain artists’ names or any other watermark/copyright information will be disqualified.

There is a $10 entry fee for one image ($7 for each additional image). Note that once you have paid, your entry is complete, no additional changes or submissions can be made.

*Early Bird Submissions: Submissions received from from Aug.15th to Aug.30th may include 1 additional images at no additional cost.

Entry fees are only refundable if you have an error prevents you from submitting your entry.

PayPal and the following credit cards: MasterCard, Visa, Diners, American Express, Discover, payrm and bank transfer are accepted.

Yes. The competition is not by Any Gallery, and participation in the competition is not included in Any Gallery’s representation. All entrants must pay the entry fee.

If an artist is selected for the collective award, they are responsible for all shipping charges to get medals Selected artists are responsible for all arrangements and costs connected to shipping.

Yes. All entrants must be at least 18 years of age.

Yes, the competition is open to artists anywhere in the world. All artists receive equal consideration.

Video art, film, performance art, jewelry, and crafts are not eligible.

No. All submitted artwork must be available for sale.

There is no time frame in which work was created. The only parameters are that the work must be available during the competition dates and must be available for sale.

Collaborative work is accepted as long as collaboration does not exceed two people.

An email confirmation of your entry. If you do not receive confirmation within 24 hours, please contact clientservices linexart.com.

Judging will be done based only on image files in JPG format.
I was not selected in the last competition.

Not at all. Jurors change between competitions, as do artists. Don’t forget: you can also submit different work each year.

Results will be emailed to all participating artists and published online within 3 days.

You can see the results of previous years’ competitions here.

You will have the option to receive the award as a check or wired funds.

Yes, but this is pending approval and only with work similar in style and medium.

If you believe your work has been copied and posted on our website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide us with the following information:

An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest. A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been. Your address, telephone number, and email address

All participants must understand that any artwork image submitted to our International Fine Art Competition will be used by us for promotional purposes only. Due credit will be given to the artists.

Please read the complete terms for more details.

All participants must understand that any artwork image submitted to our International Fine Art Competition will be used by us for promotional purposes only. Due credit will be given to the artists.

Please read the complete terms for more details.

For a complete list of our sponsors/partners, please visit our Partners page.

If you are interested in sponsoring the competition or being a partner, please contact us at admin@lenixart.com.

At Lenix Art, we make it our mission to help you discover and buy from the best emerging artists around the world.