Amazon.com was spurred by Jeff Bezos and it first started as an online bookstore in 1995. Apparently, the site was named after the largest river in the world, the Amazon. And just like the diversity of life in the river, this online store soon retailed wide variety of products like DVDs, CDs, MP3s downloads and streaming, software, video games, apparel and furniture, food, toys and jewelry. Well, Amazon remains to be infallible with its launch of its new portal, the Amazon Art.

Amazon Art was created by teaming up with hundreds of art dealers and art galleries across the USA. You can browse over 40,000 amusing fine arts from thousands of prolific artists. Amazon Art also exhibits magnificent works of other artists who had fewer exposures in the past. You can also find master pieces that worth multi million dollars! Check out Monet’s “L’Enfant a la tasse, portrait de Jean Monet” for $1.45 million USD and Norman Rockwell’s “Willie Gillis: Package from Home” for $4.85 million USD.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon faces a big challenge in encouraging the art community to sign up for the new fine art portal with many other art galleries and dealers. The reported 5 to 20 percent cut to be taken by the retail giant resulted to poor responses from other art communities.