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 Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 4:41 am
I'm doing art in school, and we're doing our own projects and research and it's pretty much just doing what interests us. But we also have to go out to galleries and research 'professional' artists', but galleries where never my thing. I'm on deviantart and there are quite a few awesome artists there, some even 'pros' but it irritates me that their digital gallery is considered insignificant and not as officials as physical galleries i have to actually walk through.
Would you think that the aritsts i like and follow digitally makes their work any less valid than those who have acutall galleries? Or am i being a lazy idiot and should go out into galleries and see the real art there and research those 'official' artists? I'm just not really getting the difference.
So discuss whether internet stuffs is any less valid then physical stuff.
I'm not entirely sure where i'm getting at with this ...
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:18 am
I honestly think DA is just as valid as any other art. The only issue I see is that most of the time you don't get a real name or real personal info. i know a big part of my art class was learning about the history surrounding the artist, and the influences that inspired the artwork, so that may be the issue your teacher has with it.
Anyway, throughout history, there has always been more artists that were never discovered than there were ones that became famous. The famous ones normally ended up with connections in nobility, and thus their art landed in lasting collections.
DA is a gallery that people can showcase their artwork in and not have those connections in this day and age. There is wonderful artwork there that would otherwise lay and decay in peoples' notebooks, sketchbooks, and canvases. Most artists draw more for themselves so think of all the art that has never been seen eyes other than those of it's creator. At DA, those artists that would normally have a tendency to hoard their pictures now post everything. I think it's one of the best benefits of the interwebz.
Anyway, that was longer than I expected...
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 3:23 pm
I watch a lot of people on DA and FA. I love their digital galleries. It is a lot easier than going to a traditional gallery. They can be slightly overwhelming. But I do enjoy going to the art museums if Washing D.C.
The only thing I do not like about digital art is how easily it can be stolen... It's horrible.
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 1:57 am
Yeah, it may be the history stuff, but I want to try and introduce some online artists into my class, and throw in some official gallery people just in case. My teacher says galleries are more of seeing the art as bigger than yourself. I probably'll just try and clear up exactly why online artists aren't as official, but still... there are official artists there who give out there name and make a living out of what they do.
And true, I've heard of so many people on dA who've had their stuff stolen or used without permission, and the sold off privately in some corner of the world were people don't know they can get them for free.
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 7:00 am
But the good thing is that many artists look out for each other. I commented on some cosplayers page on DA and was told she was stealing and pretending to be more than one person. I checked out the link and hey, what do you know. She was stealing for a famous Japanese cosplayer! How stupid...
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 11:04 pm
That is pretty idiotic, and hard to grasp why they would want to do that. There was one profile of someone who only posted art they commisioned, and lots of people don't read the artist's comment so they think they drew it, but nothing up is theirs... it's a crazy world out there, that i can say.
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:04 am
I always read the comments but I can usually tell when people can't draw XD But yea, there are some moronic people out there.
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