ARTLOOK 6.1 API
Revision October 2025
Getting started
Function calls
Returns a listing of all or selected artists.
Normal call: artists
https://api.artlookonline.com/artists?tenant_id=1&api_code=Abcde567
Shortcut call: artistslisting/{slug}
https://api.artlookonline.com/artistslisting/new-modernists-gallery
data([‘id’, ‘name’, ‘dates’, ‘short_description’, ‘sample’, ‘profileimage’, ‘representativeimage’])
IMPORTANT! This call can be slow if you do not use the parameter "no-imagecheck=true" - it is recommended generally to add this parameter to this call.
- category (artists with work categorised as ...)
&category=abstract - subcategory (artists with work subcategorised as ...)
&subcategory=abstract - work-tag (artists whose work has been tagged as ... )
&work-tag=colourful - has-work (only artists with listed works)
&has-work=true - work-sample (if true, return reference number of a piece of work)
&work-sample=true - no-imagecheck (speeds up function by not checking if images are present)
&no-imagecheck=trueRECOMMENDED - only-available (only includes artists and works where there are unsold)
- tag (only artists whose contact record has a specific tag)
&tag=Featured - subcats (append a list of subcategories to the array)
&subcats=1
Dates represent birth and death dates (if provided).
subcats appends a list of subcategories ("subcategories") to the array, and a list of categories
("SubsByCategory") with the subcategories they contain.
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