October 24, 2001 For Immediate Release

World Wide Arts Resources / absolutearts.com 200 Artists Selected as Premiere Portfolio Artists

World Wide Arts Resources / absolutearts.com launch the Premiere Portfolio, a diverse collection of contemporary artworks. This new forum provides galleries and collectors with a venue where they may browse artworks-for-sale which have been reviewed and selected by a team of experienced art professionals. To aid the visitor in making a selection, works are categorized by price, medium, theme and country. All artworks are available to collectors and galleries without additional commissions.

The success of the original absolutearts.com Artist Portfolio, and the blooming collection of art online at World Wide Arts Resources / absolutearts.com, prompted the company to explore a more competitive arena for the serious artist to harness the power of online marketing.

Introduced as a competition, hundreds of artists from around the world applied to be members of this exclusive arts marketing service. From those, 200 artists were selected as Premiere Portfolio Artists. These artists receive a website and numerous web tools to aid them in the marketing of their work via the Internet.

"We are overwhelmed with the number of high quality and internationally known artists who applied," Comments owner and founder, Markus Kruse. "Our goals are to display works by a diverse group of artists from around the world and to supply these artists with an online interface where they can further promote their art. This is yet another facet to our services that demonstrates our commitment to the visual arts online."

World Wide Arts Resources / absolutearts.com, online since 1995, continues to assemble the largest collection of contemporary art online, over 43,000 works of art. Since the launch of the Artist Portfolio in the fall of 2000, this well positioned, comprehensive, privately held online arts portal established in 1995 has evolved into THE website for artists to market their art. Wide Arts Resources / absolutearts.com continues to pride itself as being "Your First Stop for Arts Online" and on keeping operations lean and efficient, yet always evolving to meet the global arts community needs.

Electronic images of screen captures and photographs are available on our website (http://wwar.com/press) or upon request.

For additional information and interviews, please contact:

Jodi Melfi
614-221-7661
press@wwar.com