11 Free WordPress Themes for Artists 2019: Freemium Features

Every artist needs a platform to show its creativity to the world. What could be a better platform than an online website/blog? Whether you’re a photographer, a painter, or a web designer, everyone needs a portfolio. After all, portfolio is the time-tested, best way to give potential clients a look into your work history.

To support various artists across the globe, we have collected some of the free WordPress themes for artists. These themes are tested by our team so that you can easily choose which one is a better option for your online appearance. Some of these themes have premium like features, and also you don’t have to spend a single penny. Let’s have a look at some best free WordPress themes for artists that will rule 2019.

1. Musical

Features	Details
Price	Free
Author	Mythemeshop
Load Speed	1.5 seconds
SEO Score	4.5 points
Overall Rating	4.8 star
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It is incredibly flexible allowing you to create a custom entertainment website from scratch. Don’t go on the name of this theme, and this is actually a great-looking portfolio theme. It features nice square blocks where you can showcase your works, its build for speed. The musical is fully responsive, minimal and clean design.

It’s having unlimited color and background options with some cool icons. The theme is already SEO-ready and AdSense optimized, so you don’t need to tune it. All ads can be placed within few minutes since no coding is required. Have a look on this theme.

2. Flash

Features	Details
Price	Free
Author	Themegrill
Load Speed	2.1 seconds
SEO Score	2.5 points
Overall Rating	4.2 star
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Flash is one of the most popular Multi-Purpose WordPress themes. It comes with easy “drag and drop” page builder that is helpful to shape your page according to your need. It also has a simple and elegant one-page layout, a full-width slider and with great product filters. Flash is full of  6+ widget areas & 11+ custom widgets, many color options, flash Toolkit plugin. You can easily Show your portfolio & recent work.

This theme is packed with image slider widget to display your essential content beautifully. It is optimized for speed and SEO. Overall, a neat design that will make your business stand out.

3. Snaps

Features	Details
Price	Free
Author	GraphPaperPress
Load Speed	2.9 seconds
SEO Score	3.5 points
Overall Rating	4.1 star
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A responsive, simple portfolio WordPress theme for photographers with unlimited galleries and easy to customize the theme. It has a minimalist and clean design, with a full-width header and a grid-like portfolio gallery. This theme comes with various post formats and custom widget areas. By default, it has no sidebars which make it centered focus so that it creates more credibility, nice implementation right there.

This theme supports high-resolution images for maximum portfolio impact which drives traffic. As you know content is king, so it helps you to show your content uniquely. Kindly have a look at this theme.

4. Ignis

Features	Details
Price	Free
Author	Athemes
Load Speed	1.5 seconds
SEO Score	2.5 points
Overall Rating	3.5 star
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A clean and minimalist theme for business and corporate sites, with a simple and elegant 3-page layout, a full-width slider, a beautiful portfolio, and a jetpack portfolio. Its a responsive theme with three blog layouts, google fonts. This theme also comes with many color options, lazy load portfolio.

Ignis is already optimized for speed and SEO, so you don’t need to optimize it manually. We love the way it demonstrates your work using transition when you hover your mouse over images. If you are a famous celeb, you can start selling your merchandise with a Woocommernce integrated store. Overall, a neat design that will make your business stand out.

5. Asteria Lite

Features	Details
Price	Free
Author	Towfiq I
Load Speed	1.2 seconds
SEO Score	0.5 points
Overall Rating	2.0 star
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Asteria Lite is suitable for any types of website – corporate, portfolio, business, blog. The Asteria Lite theme offers a substantial photo gallery page, and this combines nicely with the theme. Its A clean and minimalist business portfolio theme with a multipurpose professional design. It comes with a stunning responsive design and social icons.

Asteria lite is having a three-page template and full layout option. The theme is 100% SEO friendly and translation ready. You can easily translate into German, Spanish, Italian, French, Chinese, etc.  It is a One-Click Install theme. You don’t need any more plugin. Check this out now.

6. Farben Basic

Features	Details
Price	Free
Author	Bavotasan
Load Speed	3.4 seconds
SEO Score	2.0 points
Overall Rating	2.0 star
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A minimalist responsive full-screen theme for an artist. It comes with easy to use shortcodes, live customizer, various post formats.  It has a full-width featured slider, an impressive colorful portfolio in masonry style, image galleries, and a blog layout. Farben also comes with Font-awesome icon and advanced color picker. You can use these icons to create a more visual illustration in the navigation menu.

This theme is translation ready so that you can translate it in any language. Overall, a clean WordPress theme for an artist to create A+ quality dynamic pages and a solid portfolio.

7. Hatch

Features	Details
Price	Free
Author	AlienWP
Load Speed	0.8 seconds
SEO Score	0.5 points
Overall Rating	1.8 star
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Hatch is a minimalist responsive and straightforward free WordPress theme for artists, with a subtle grid portfolio. This theme comes with advanced widgets, Lightbox, photo-friendly design.  The remarkable thing about this theme is that it doesn’t come with any distracting elements, so your works will be the first thing the visitors see.

This theme also comes with theme matching styles for contact form plugins like Gravity Forms and contact form 7. It is also translation ready. Overall have a look at this beautiful theme.

8. Diary

Features	Details
Price	Free
Author	Mythemeshop
Load Speed	1.3 seconds
SEO Score	0.5 points
Overall Rating	1.6 star
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Diary is a simple and cool theme that can be used for writer/blogger portfolios. You can show your best work and show people how impressive your skills are. The theme comes with theme option panel, unlimited color schemes, advertisement management. It’s already responsive ready, means it can resize itself automatically according to different devices like Apple iPhone or Laptop/PC.

The layout is classic – sidebar and main content area. You can add your social media profiles with this theme which shows you in the left sidebar which helps you to get more social followers. Also, this theme is developed by one of our favorite developer i.e. Mythemeshop. So you can expect good support as well.

9. Gridster

Features	Details
Price	Free
Author	Theme Furnace
Load Speed	1.2 seconds
SEO Score	0.5 points
Overall Rating	1.5 star
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A Responsive, friendly and clean WordPress theme with hundreds of Google fonts and grid portfolio on the homepage. It puts your works in the spotlight beautifully with custom logo and custom widgets. You can add a description for each item in the gallery, and you can filter them by category name as well. Its also comes with unlimited colors, social media links.

Overall this theme looks normal to eyes, nor too modern neither old-fashioned. This theme is highly recommended for all photographers and graphic designer artists to showcase their items in a glance.

10. Pure

Features	Details
Price	Free
Author	GT3themes
Load Speed	2.8 seconds
SEO Score	0.5 points
Overall Rating	1.2 star
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Pure is an excellent theme for portfolios and bloggers comes with Retina ready and Ajax effect. It comes with a great animated masonry design, modern appearance, and lots of layout styles. It also having GT3 page builder, Contact form 7 support and lots of post formats and page layouts.

Pure can be used for basically any kind of project. However, if you think more of an Artistic SEO theme than this theme is living under the rocks. It has terrible SEO optimization but other than that it is a great visual theme. Use it and lets your portfolio talking.

11. Masonry

Features	Details
Price	Free
Author	Dessign
Load Speed	9.1 seconds
SEO Score	0.0 points
Overall Rating	0.5 star
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Masonry is a stylish WordPress theme that works nicely for portfolio websites. It comes with social icons, hover-effects, and custom background color. It is having a clean design and minimal masonry layout. You can change customize the whole theme according to your need.

The theme is responsive; thus your site will look great on multiple devices from smartphones to tablets to desktop computers. This theme is search engine optimized so your site will get more visitors by search engines. However, please note that this theme has performed worst in our SEO and speed test.