ArtManager is a software that tracks all the artworks of an artist or a collector. It's a web app able to perform advanced research operations on all the art production of an artist in a fast and intuitive way.
The old filing system
Before the adoption of ArtManager, a very primordial system was adopted (photographing the artworks and placing them in folders renamed for example "40 x 50 25AC34"). The advantage of this solution is the simplicity of insertion or updating, the disadvantage is clearly that it is not possible to perform advanced search criteria (for example if you wanted to see all the 40 x 40 paintings that contain "flowers" in the title, it is not possible to do it: you have to manually enter folder by folder and check if the search conditions are verified).
ArtManager - the perfect solution
Since my grandfather passed away, our family has decided to collect all the artistic production in an organic and
detailed way. To do this we used ArtManager, a software that I developed capable of displaying the artworks both in
tabular format and in a visual format like a photo-gallery.
The real advantage of this solution is the possibility of
filtering searches based on parameters such as measurements, year of production, title, type and so on. The software
is also a small CRM, capable of tracking customers and galleries and keeping track of all the transactions of artworks
that have taken place.
How ArtManager works
The real beating heart of the application is the database, which stores all information relating to artworks, customers,
sales and frames. The web application is written in PHP, and acts as a middleware between the database and the human operator,
so it does nothing more than create a user-friendly interface which interacts with the database.
The application has also been designed to be used by more expert users, for this reason in each screen it is possible to search
in advanced mode using queries (for example if you want to see all the artworks that have lateral measurements less than 40 cm, it is
not possible to do this with the simple search, but it is always possible using the advanced search mode).