ArtMatch

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you’re wondering, answered plainly.

What is ArtMatch, and who is it for?

It's for anyone who loves art but never quite felt the art world was built for them. The hushed galleries, the jargon, the quiet sense that you need permission to begin. We think that's backwards. If you know what moves you, you're already a collector. So we made the way in simple. Take a short quiz and we learn what you're drawn to. A real curator finds original work that's genuinely you, at a fair price, and stays with you from the first piece on. You bring the taste. We bring the art, the trust, and a real person beside you the whole way.

What if I get it home and don't love it?

Then you send it back and we refund you. You get 14 days to live with a piece on your own wall, in your own light, before you decide anything. If it isn't right, just say so, send it back, and once it reaches us you get a full refund. Art should earn its place in your home. It should never feel like a bet you're stuck with.

Who actually picks the art?

A real person does. Jean, our founder and curator. The quiz and our matching do the narrowing, taking thousands of works down to a short list that fits how you see. From there, Jean chooses by hand. Every match you're shown has a human behind it, someone who has looked at the actual work and would happily live with it.

Is an algorithm choosing my art?

No. A person is. The quiz helps us learn what moves you and narrows the field, but it never makes the call. The technology does the looking. Jean does the choosing. You get the reach of seeing far more art than you ever could alone, with the judgment of someone who knows it.

Do I have to be an “art person”?

Not at all, and that's rather the point. You don't need the names, the movements, or the right thing to say at an opening. The quiz reads what you're genuinely drawn to, and you only ever buy what truly speaks to you. Knowing what you love when you see it is the only qualification that matters.

How do you set the price?

The price you see is the artist's own. It reflects real things: where the artist is in their career, the size of the work, the medium, and how many exist. We don't quietly mark a piece up to whatever a room will bear. And any time you want to know why something costs what it does, just ask. We'll tell you plainly.

How do I know it's the real, authentic work?

Every piece comes straight from the artist who made it. We work with each artist directly, so nothing passes through resellers or middlemen. What you see listed, the artist, the title, the year, the medium, the dimensions, and the edition size, is exactly what arrives. The artist is the source. That is your proof.

What's the difference between an original and a limited-edition print?

An original is one of a kind, a single work with a surface and texture that can't be repeated. A limited edition is a small, numbered run signed by the artist. “5 / 25” means the fifth of twenty-five made, and that's all there will ever be. Both are real, original art, and an edition is often a lovely way to begin.

What is a Giclée print?

Giclée (French for “sprayed ink”) is a fine-art inkjet process that reproduces a work at very high resolution, keeping the fine detail, colour, and tone of the original. Every ArtMatch print is made this way, with archival pigment inks on museum fine-art paper, so it reads the way the artist intended and holds up for decades.

What is the Classic Masters Collection?

It's a small, hand-picked set of the most loved paintings in the world, from Van Gogh's Almond Blossom to Monet's Water Lilies, offered as beautiful museum prints. These works are in the public domain now, which means they belong to everyone, so we can print them honestly and openly. We chose each one because it matches the taste our quiz tends to surface: lush, dreamy, alive. It's a way to live with a masterpiece you love, at a price that makes sense.

Are these real, and how can you sell a Van Gogh?

These are museum-quality fine-art prints of the masterpieces themselves, made from the best high-resolution scans in the world and printed at true original size on heavy Hahnemühle German Etching paper. Because these works are now in the public domain, we can offer them openly and make them beautifully. What arrives on your wall is a faithful, luminous print, made to be lived with.

What does “true original size” mean?

Each Classic Master is printed at the real dimensions of the painting itself. Monet's Water Lilies is about 90 by 90 centimetres in the museum, so your print is too. Most reproductions shrink a masterpiece to fit a standard frame. We don't. You get the scale the artist actually worked at, which is a big part of why these works move people in person.

It's an open edition. Is a Classic Master still special?

Its specialness lives in the work itself and the care of the print. Each one is made beautifully: printed at true original size on Hahnemühle German Etching, a heavy, velvety museum fine-art paper, ready to frame and built to hold its colour for decades. A masterpiece is made to be shared, and an open edition simply means anyone who loves it gets to live with it.

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