Review of the online store of paintings Montmilan 
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1. General information
Online painting store Monmilan.ru is a relatively young online gallery of original paintings. Work began in 2020. It is a marketplace for selling and purchasing contemporary paintings directly from artists. At the time of writing (June 2023), the gallery represents 1,200 artists and more than 15 thousand works.
2. Styles and genres of paintings
There are no restrictions on painting style at the Montmilan Gallery. The site contains both traditional style paintings in the genres of landscapes, still lifes, portraits, as well as new trends in interior painting and contemporary art
3. Gallery artists
The site presents 90% Russian contemporary artists. Both young and already proven.
4. Pros and cons of the Monmilan site
Pros:
- Free placement and no commissions for selling works
- Direct connection between artist and buyer. You can always personally ask a question to the author of the work
- Quite high positions in search engines when searching for paintings and artists
- Compared to other galleries, a popular Instagram account (banned in the Russian Federation) with more than 16 thousand subscribers
- Technical support
- Moderation that cuts off paintings from newcomers
- Convenient filters when searching for paintings, you can find the work of an artist even from a small city or an unusual style
- Modern design
Minuses
- At the moment, not all Russian artists are present on the site
- If you are a complete beginner artist and have been painting for no more than a month, then it will not be easy for you to get into the gallery
- Technical support does not always respond quickly
5. How to display your paintings
There is a short registration form on the site, where you need to indicate your full name, email, phone number and attach several photos of the paintings so that the moderators can evaluate the work. After filling out this form, you will receive a response from the moderator by email within 2-4 hours.
If you are accepted, then you can immediately add your paintings and information about yourself through your personal account
6. Recommendations for artists when posting on the gallery website
There are rules under which the artist’s page and his works will receive more traffic from search engines and directly from the gallery website: 1. The most important thing is the uniqueness and volume of the text. Search engines don’t like it when the same texts are used on dozens of different sites. Prepare new unique texts describing the artist and paintings or edit old ones. Also, do not limit yourself to one sentence - the more text, the better (within reasonable limits)
2. Number of paintings. Also, you shouldn’t limit yourself to 1-2 paintings. The more paintings you have, the more likely you are to be noticed by buyers. In addition, when an artist has a large portfolio, it is easier for buyers to decide whether the artist’s work is suitable or not
3. When adding paintings, add more tags - this way you will be represented in different collections of paintings and you will receive more orders