DeviantART: The Impact on the Art World

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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

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