DeviantART (also known as dA) is a website widely known as an online art market to artists today as a place to showcase or sell their artworks. The site made it possible for artists to upload their original artworks for the public to see and perhaps for other to purchase. The deviantART community has dramatically influenced many contemporary artists to now rely on the use of an online gallery to both display and sell their works as opposed to depending of a gallery in the offline world. deviantART has caused a shift in the way the economy revolves around the art market and art world. This is by its adoption into the art world, its uses and its effects on the art market. A major source that will be majority referenced on will be a interview conducted between the creator of deviantArt, Angelo Sotira and the author Daniel Perkel in Daniel's article "Making Art, Creating Infrastructure: deviantART and the Production of the Web" (2011). Creating of an online art community DeviantART is a famous online art gallery website, while acting as an art market as well; but it was not like this when it was first created in the 2000s. Sortia claimed that dA emerged from "Dimension Music, a music company that was on the verge of collapsing" (Perkel, 2011, p. 38). It originally was a site similar to Flickr; but as it started to develop over the years, it incorporated many different mediums of art such as traditional and digital artworks in attempt to encourage many users to join the site. Today, it "serves as a community where artists and art lovers are able to use new ways of art in order to express themselves" (Perkel, 2010, p. 43), and a way to interact with other users in a variety of ways, such as journals, images or groups. In addition, the... ... middle of paper ... ...5, 486-487. Retrieved from http://resolver.scholarsportal.info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/resolve/15309282/v45i0005/486_disanoa Salah, A., & Salah A., (2013, June). Flow of innovation in deviantART : following artists on an online social network site. Mind and Society, 12 (1), 137-149. Retrieved from http://resolver.scholarsportal.info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/resolve/15937879/v12i0001/137_foiidfoaosns Singh, A. (2009, November). Soft as a Whisper. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 29 (6), 4-5, Retrieved from http://resolver.scholarsportal.info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/resolve/02721716/v29i0006/4_saaw Zontea, A. (2010). ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE NEW GENERATION OF ARTISTS: A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF VIRTUAL ART GALLERIES. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, 55(2), 117-140. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/869017548?accountid=14771
Though people can look into color and composition, others can still even look into the source of the art itself. Cole goes deeper, delving into the source of the art, looking in particular into the idea of cultural appropriation and the view a person can give others. Though it is good for people to be exposed to different opinions of a group or an object, sometimes people can find it difficult to tell the difference between the reality and the art itself. Sometimes art can be so powerful that its message stays and impacts its audience to the point where the viewer’s image of the subject of the art changes entirely. Cole brings up an important question about art, however. Art has become some kind of media for spreading awareness and even wisdom at times, but in reality, “there is also the question of what the photograph is for, what role it plays within the economic circulation of images” (973). Cole might even be implying that Nussbaum’s advertisement can sometimes be the point of some media, and that sometimes the different genres of art can just be to make someone with a particular interest happy. One more point that Cole makes is that “[a]rt is always difficult, but it is especially difficult when it comes to telling other people’s stories.” (974) Truthfully, awareness and other like-concepts are difficult to keep going when a person or a group is not directly involved.
Often, collectors rely on art dealers when deciding whether an art work is 'good or not'. They are not very knowledgeable about how valuable a specific art work is. Valuation of an art work is made by some criterias .How much are the similar art works worth? Are there any artworks that can be bought or is this the final chance to have a Picasso in your home? Does any museum show interest such as MoMA? Or was that artwork owned by Charles Saatchi? Is it going to be auctioned at Sotheby's? All answers of these such questions helps determining the value of an art work. The network of the actors of art worlds should be analyzed for example if we were to study the phenomenon of skyrocketed prices of art works. However, where Becker's approach is not enough is that he believes there are different art worlds. Becker states, 'Art worlds typically have intimate and extensive relations with the worlds from which they try to distinguish themselves.' Even though they share resources, exchange ideas and they are part of a larger social organization, not everything is shared and this is one of the main reasons that generates a curious economics phenomenon of the art markets. We should try to find a balance between researching every aspect of the complex cooperative network of art creation and limiting the research to a specific
They try and bring people together within these public spaces through their ridiculous sketches and ‘improvisations’. By filming their endeavors within their public space, they are providing their own surveillance cameras and can choose to film what they want within this already surveyed space. As technology continues to grow and expand, the questions brought up by Krauss and Mann will only continue to fuel debate. The newest public space being investigated through art is the Internet. Privacy comes into question more and more often with the advent of Facebook, Youtube and Chat Roulette.
Wolfe explains that artists rely on the "culturati", or high society members whose thoughts and actions are under the spot light at all times, to get their work noticed. These individuals like the newest of the new because it gives them a form of social status which separa...
At the beginning of this article, Jorge Frascara disagrees with how EI Lissitzky relate graphic design to fine arts without considering its social impact. Some artist viewed it as an art form while he stands at the opposite side. He points out the flaws of Lissitzky’s failure to recognize graphic design from several aspects. For example, he ignores the problems of appropriateness, performance and the impact on the public and in the visual environment. Lissitzky and some contemporary avant-garde artists did not clearly distinguish the difference between visual creation and visual manipulation. This results in negative influence in mass communication. Jorge used the example of Pelikan ink to illustrate how inappropriate it is to overemphasize visual structure during the graphic design process. The image created
Art exhibitions are but a manifestation of the of the artist and what an artist produces specific art in order to provoke certain emotions or feelings to their audience. Artists have put their paintings, photographs, designs, on display for the world to critique and to judge; although this does not necessarily have to mean that the critique they are giving is negative. Artists develop certain themes and patterns in their art in order to evoke feelings and emotions that will draw more people to their exhibits and therefore audiences can acquire a thirst for what it is that artists produce. A recent gallery at the University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography had an exhibit on display titled, “The Pure Products of America Go Crazy”
Of all new advancements, the digital space arguably has the most outstanding effect on illustration, encroaching on our reality and the meaning of physical space within the field. As the digital space expands and further accommodates more aspects of the global illustrator’s life, we may come to a point (or are already at the point) where there is novelty in the restricted physical space; in a physical artwork, studio or gallery. It has changed the playing field and the rules of the game- knowledge and new innovations are developing rapidly, with a possibility of overtaking tradition through convenience. Not only has digital technology affected how illustration is received and displayed, but also how it is created- in the proliferation of digital
The Company is famous for making its work through extensive periods of research and development which brings together performers, designers, writers, artists and specialists from diverse fields to create the works – a process now known simply as ‘devising’.
Women desire to become beautiful and powerful, even if they don’t say it in words. And the Photographer plays with that concept and creates that desire, that you can become that person you see in the photograph. And live that lifestyle. Photographers use techniques from the cinema/cinematic, to create the desire of viewers/Buyer/Consumers. The cinematic techniques made it possible the way people lived and the...
Art is not useless as Oscar Wilde stated; nor is it the death of logic by emotion as Plato supposed. Art is an activist trying to inform and shape the social consciousness. Art by nature is critical and questions how the world is perceived. These questions are pivotal in creating change within society. The Armory Show, a major turning point in American art, for example, was inspired by shifting perceptions of the aesthetic and a stirring toward modernity. The Armory Show was an artistic rebellion against the juries, prizes, and restricted exhibitions that excluded unacademic and yet t...
With new medias as Instagram, we are now all media artists. This is what I have chosen to illustrate in my video, based on An Instagram short film from Thomas Jullien, that we have discussed in seminar.
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There was once a strong geographical distinction between local and global, but in order to understand the process of globalization, it is wise to take a look at what is occurring at the local level. Malcolm Bull expresses the idea that there are two economies in the art world, one economic and the other cultural or in other words the art market and the attention economy (188-189). The cultural focuses on the social process of art and its relationship of the art to the art audience, and its presence in the ...
To begin, digital technologies have been creating new avenues and relationships between the arts and culture, resulting in a level