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Are
you an artist with a gallery here?
These
erotic art galleries have been online for over a decade.
Some artists have had galleries here for many years.
Some of our original artists are no longer posted.
This page was created to help keep us current with our
exhibiting artists.
Keep
your gallery current! Many of you have
changed e-mail addresses, web addresses, even nationalities.
Lots of you have created many new works, expanded into
other media, and evolved into new styles. Let
us know! Send your updated information and images
of your new works (800 x 600 pixels or larger, please)
to us ().
Help
us help you! Let people know your work
is exhibited here. You can even profit from directing
traffic to us. If you join our FireCa$h Affiliate
Program, and include our affiliate code in your links,
you will receive 50% of the subscription fees if any
of your visitors join.
Notice
anything different? Our layout was
improved in early 2009. More categories, larger
pages, larger thumbnails, easier navigation.
Don't
be afraid to post your e-mail address!
We're using a new method to protect you from spammers
who use e-mail harvesters to put published e-mail addresses
on junk mail lists. E-mail links in our art galleries
are now generated by coded scripts that are not readable
by automated harvesters, and they're not image files,
either (which can be read by optical readers).
This doesn't guarantee nobody will manually copy your
address for unsolicited mail, but probably eliminates
95% of junk mail while allowing your admirers and possible
customers to contact you.
Can't
find your gallery? We expanded from
having six art categories to eleven. Nearly half
of our galleries were recategorized. If you can't
find your gallery using the old web address, please
check the alphabetical artist list for your name, click
on it, and record your new web address shown in the
blank at the top of your browser window.
Still
can't find your gallery? We eliminated
about a dozen of our original art galleries because
of one or more of the following reasons: (a) not
enough works on display, (b) not enough sexual or nude
subject matter, (c) the images were too small, (d) or
the artist's collection was a small sampling of various
genres that couldn't be categorized. If your former
gallery is missing and you have a well-developed collection
of work to send to us, write us again.
I've
submitted a gallery, and I haven't heard back from anyone.
If that's the case, please accept our apologies.
We receive applications from hundreds of artists every
year. We try to respond to as many as possible,
and we try to exhibit as many as possible, but we are
limited in time and budget. FireGirls.com has
been operated entirely by one man (Alex) for most of
its history, and his main job is to maintain the Members
Area.
However, Mina Stambecco
now works for Alex full-time, and can help us respond
to more of you. We've maintained about 100 to
120 galleries for our first decade, but would love to
see our art galleries benefit a thousand artists if
possible. If you send us your art and application,
please do not expect an immediate reply. Historically,
it has taken us months for new submissions to go through
our queue and become exhibits. With Mina's help,
hopefully that can shorten to weeks or days. Our
Art Galleries are free publicity, and good publicity,
and we hope you appreciate that, as we appreciate your
art.
I've
sold the rights to my artwork, so please remove it from
your site. When you submit your artwork
to FireGirls.com, the form states that you grant us
nonexclusive internet publishing rights. That
means we can exhibit them, but you're still free to
license or sell them to others. You are not authorizing
us to sell your work, or to sell rights to it.
You are just giving us permission to make your work
visible here. That permission is irrevocable (permanent).
If you are selling exclusive
rights to your artwork to another entity, you need to
explain to them that the work is visible elsewhere on
the internet, and nonexclusive rights to low-quality
versions of them were granted to FireGirls.com.
This should not be a problem, because the images we
exhibit here are NOT reproduction size or quality.
For a piece of art ot
be reproduced on a color printing press with art-quality
detail (150 line screen frequency), a minimum
resolution of 2.2 megapixels (1200 x 1800 pixels) would
be required to generate a small, postcard sized (4"
x 6") image. Even an exhibition-quality image
for internet usage demands a resolution of at least
1 megapixel (1200 x 800 pixels). The images posted
here in our free erotic art galleries are:
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posted for information and educational purposes, and
NOT profit, and therefore are neither commercial nor
competitive in nature;
- are
typically HALF a megapixel or smaller, and with visible
JPEG artifacting, making them neither an exhibition
size nor reproduction quality;
- are
not being resold or redistributed by us; they may
be, however, reused elsewhere within FireGirls.com
for illustration or discussion purposes, or to promote
these free art galleries.
The
only compelling reasons we have found to remove an artist's
galleries have been (a) discovery that the exhibitor
was a fraud (not in fact the creator or rightful owner
of the submitted images, and therefore was unauthorized
to submit them); (b) the exhibitor was in physical
danger because of the art (in one case a woman in a
middle-east country faced imprisonment and torture for
creating erotic art and exhibiting it here, so to spare
her, we removed her gallery).
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