WordPress is a user-friendly, non-scary platform for designers and technophobes alike. It is used to create beautiful sites to showcase businesses and personal brands or as a blogging platform. With WordPress, the only subjective opinion that matters is the experience of the person that you are trying to reach. In addition to that, technology has provided new and innovative tools for creators. It used to be the case that artists needed wealthy patrons to promote them, and fund their attempts at creating beauty through their craft.
So, here in our today’s post we have compiled a list of some of the amazing free artists themes for WordPress that are useful for artist portfolio websites. All these themes have good documentation available online and make use of the latest features available in WordPress. For more information about the theme, click on its image. I hope you’ll find what you’re looking for, and if you do please leave a comment, and tell everyone about your choice and your website. If you like this effort then don’t forget to take a look on other articles:
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1. Harmonic
This theme puts the spotlight on your images and content. Harmonic’s striking homepage is accompanied by a minimalist, one-column blog design and an optional portfolio page template. Each section of the scrolling front page has options in the customizer that let you assign a unique display. The customizer allows you to easily set a background for the news, page, widgets, and portfolio sections. You can even include a background shade so that the title and tagline are more readable.
2. Portfolio Press
Portfolio Press is a responsive WordPress theme for showcasing your photography, art, web sites, or other projects. It also works nicely as a regular blog site. An options panel is available for uploading logos and changing the layout.
3. Minimal Artist
Minimal Artist is a website-oriented theme built with the needs of the artist community in mind. While it can be used as a blogging platform, its main features are ideally suited to portfolio websites. The posts page is configured to display a mosaic of featured image and post titles; this can be changed to list display. If no featured images are set, only titles will display, or, in the absence of title, post date.
4. Gateway
Gateway is the perfect mix of class and elegance, a traditional yet customizable home for your content. Reinforce your brand with a site logo, add a bold header image and call to action, and showcase your best posts or a video with a special Homepage template. In the Customizer, you can choose the behavior of your Custom Header image. Go to Theme Options → General to select either a fixed-position header (default) or a traditional scrolling header.
5. Apostrophe
Apostrophe is a fully responsive magazine theme that’s a pleasure to read from any device. It offers clean, easy-to-read typography paired with a modern, minimalist design. Choose from a single-column layout, or make use of multiple sidebar and footer widget areas. Highlight your best posts to add variety and interest to your homepage, and showcase your social media links at the top of the page.
6. Boardwalk
Boardwalk, a flexible, versatile, and responsive theme designed to show off your content in an unconventional yet elegant and creative way. Boardwalk allows you to have two Custom Menus: one in the theme’s slide-out sidebar (Primary Menu) and one in the footer (Social Menu). Boardwalk also allows you to display links to your social media profiles with crisp, perfectly-sized icons. Boardwalk is designed to work seamlessly with Custom Colors and the Custom Design upgrade.
7. Chateau
If you are looking for a theme that is clean and especially typographically pleasing, look no further Chateau may be what you are looking for. An elegant, minimalist theme, Chateau sports a classic look but under the surface it’s packed with cool features that will help you to customize your blog how you like. Chateau features three default layouts for your blog. Two of those layouts feature a typical sidebar, either on the left or right of your content. If you don’t need the sidebar you can choose the third layout to utilize the whole width with your blog posts.
8. Sketch
Sketch is a responsive portfolio theme, perfect for showcasing your creative talent, whether it be illustration, design, or photography. The theme’s clean, light design puts the focus on your projects. Sketch takes advantage of the Portfolio feature on WordPress.com, offering unique layouts and organization for your portfolio projects. This template will display your portfolio and allow you to set your portfolio as the site’s front page.
9. Illustratr
Illustratr is a minimalist portfolio theme that helps you create a strong online presence. Primarily crafted for designers and photographers, it is a simple, powerful, and flexible theme. Illustratr is responsive, from desktop to mobile, and everything in between. The theme adapts to any screen without sacrificing usability or design integrity. Illustratr takes advantage of the Portfolio feature on WordPress.com, offering unique layouts and organization for your portfolio projects.
10. Reddle
The basic elements of Reddle’s layout were inspired by an older theme called Rubric but there’s really nothing basic about its minimal layout. Everything about the design adapts to how you want to use your blog and what you want to use it for. The default layout for Reddle is fluid. That means the layout will stretch to fill your browser window no matter the size. But if you add a Custom Header Image to your blog or a Custom Menu, Reddle will snap to a fixed layout.
