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"Thanx Mr. Rorschach"

=dwk61:icondwk61: reports, 1d 11h ago
Music by the legendary Rex Illusivii (Suba) set to an extraordinary collection of suggestive artwork.

Grammar: I can haz?

~Selenedragon:iconSelenedragon: reports, 2d 5h ago
We all have grammar troubles sometime. Want some hints? Want to avoid some certain mistakes? Come and join! Class is about to start.

DENYING THE POVERTY DRAFT-THE SOLDIER AS A SYMBOL

=whitetrashpalace:iconwhitetrashpalace: reports, 2d 6h ago
The Poverty Draft, Politics, Symbols, and the inconvenience of being human.

Even in times of war, the Soldier as an individual is of no consequence. The Soldier is a symbol, a simple pawn in a culture war. The Soldier is either a villain, or a Hero. The Soldier always serves for the honor of his country, not his paycheck. The Soldier is faithful, as there are 'no atheists in the trenches'. The Soldier is Combat Arms. The Soldier is male, he married a young white girl, and he has a baby on the way, whom he has never met.

The Soldier is a romantic ideal.

deviantARTtimes July 5th, 2009

=deviantARTtimes:icondeviantARTtimes: reports, July 5
Providing you with Community News, Deviant News and more: read about what's going on on deviantART, find links to important contests and happenings, or simply be entertained. We are the deviantARTtimes - dA's leading news source.

To cheeseburger or not to cheeseburger

*Halohid:iconHalohid: reports, July 3
Body types in the world of internet modeling and how to respond with respect and compassion.

All Deaths are Tragedies

*Silvaz:iconSilvaz: reports, July 1
All deaths are important, not just pop stars.
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A Feminist Perspective on Questionable Images

~sick-snowangel:iconsick-snowangel: reports, July 1
Sex and sexuality in art are some of my favorite things, and certainly sometimes arousal is part of this, but more importantly, it is FAR MORE than about simple arousal, as porn is. One of my deviantart friends, :iconcypherthepanicartist: , said that art of a sexual nature can “ provoke thoughts about our dreams, fears, desires, and place in the world"...yes! Well done art that deals with sex exposes the soul of the subject or act in question, not just the naughty bits. I feel that any kind of work on this site that looks at sexuality in a thoughtful or artistic or critical or celebratory, etc. way is certainly appropriate content for an art site, because, of course, this work is actually ART.

So You Want (to) Critique.

=KneelingGlory:iconKneelingGlory: reports, July 2
Here is a two-fold guide for deviants wishing to receive critique as well as deviants who want to give constructive critiques.

Hate Mary Sues? Don't we all! (Part Two)

=dantesgirl:icondantesgirl: reports, June 29
A continuation of my unexpectedly-popular guide on Mary Sue prevention. In this Part, I will be critiquing a notoriously bad fanfiction - My Immortal. Thank you all for your current support!

deviantARTtimes June 28th, 2009

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Providing you with Community News, Deviant News and more: read about what's going on on deviantART, find links to important contests and happenings, or simply be entertained. We are the deviantARTtimes - dA's leading news source.
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Editorials This Week

deviantARTtimes July 5th, 2009

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Providing you with Community News, Deviant News and more: read about what's going on on deviantART, find links to important contests and happenings, or simply be entertained. We are the deviantARTtimes - dA's leading news source.

DENYING THE POVERTY DRAFT-THE SOLDIER AS A SYMBOL

=whitetrashpalace:iconwhitetrashpalace: reports, 2d 6h ago
The Poverty Draft, Politics, Symbols, and the inconvenience of being human.

Even in times of war, the Soldier as an individual is of no consequence. The Soldier is a symbol, a simple pawn in a culture war. The Soldier is either a villain, or a Hero. The Soldier always serves for the honor of his country, not his paycheck. The Soldier is faithful, as there are 'no atheists in the trenches'. The Soldier is Combat Arms. The Soldier is male, he married a young white girl, and he has a baby on the way, whom he has never met.

The Soldier is a romantic ideal.

Grammar: I can haz?

~Selenedragon:iconSelenedragon: reports, 2d 5h ago
We all have grammar troubles sometime. Want some hints? Want to avoid some certain mistakes? Come and join! Class is about to start.

"Thanx Mr. Rorschach"

=dwk61:icondwk61: reports, 1d 11h ago
Music by the legendary Rex Illusivii (Suba) set to an extraordinary collection of suggestive artwork.

Scientology ads on DA

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DeviantART is displaying Ads for Scientology - it needs to stop!

What Is An "Original Post" (OP)?</

*DAPoliticalForum:iconDAPoliticalForum: reports, July 5
:star: In the simplest terms, an OP, or Topic Thread, is a report of someone's actions, an issue, or of an event, which has not been previously reported, and which interests or affects significant segments of the Forum audience.

Realms of Fantasy and Myth: Week 10 - Orcs

*ladyarah:iconladyarah: reports, July 7
Realms of Fantasy and Myth: Week 10 - Orcs
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Du als führendes Licht und leuchtendes Beispiel?!

=Shadowelve:iconShadowelve: reports, 1d 17h ago
Man muss kein Gallery Moderator sein oder ein extravagantes Zeichen neben seinem Usernamen haben, um andere Artists in der Lieblingsgallerie zu fördern! Lies weiter und finde heraus, wie du deine Ecke von dA besser machen kannst...
Originalartikel von ^RockstarVanity

Quotes From the DA Politics Forum

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[link] Official DA Political Forum

Each week the *DAPoliticalForum Club harvests a plethera of quotes we branded SKULL ChatterTM. We invite you to share in some of the humour of the DA Political Forum.
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Skills to Survive Life: Part One

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Are you depressed? Do you feel like you are a failure? Do you feel empty inside? Do you sometimes end up harming yourself, or punishing yourself in some way? Do you find yourself unable to handle stress sometimes?

This might help. Give it a read, it might change your life. It changed mine.

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The Relaionship Between Art and Religion: Volume

*DAReligiousForum:iconDAReligiousForum: reports, December 7, 2007
:firelite-photo: ART AND RELIGION

Art and Religion are inseparatable. This means that art and religion are closely related because they both deal with the quest for man's self-understanding. It may be that art is the means by which many people are introduced into what are essentially religious or theological problems. It is with these boundary-line situations that so much art deals-that is, with the problems of death, pain, guilt, and struggle. This is because in these situations we become aware of those basic contradictions and antinomies, which are supremely characteristic of human existence. The question "Who am I?" is asked with respect to the boundary-line experiences and not with respect to some timeless essence. The amount of interest in the Religious Arts in increasing as sensitive young men and women seek in the arts some answers to the question of their self-identity.

So, this being said, I present to you the featured deviations of the man men and women, both young and not so young, of the files of deviantArt :


:firelite-photo: Art-Paintings, Drawings, and Manipulations:





:firelite-photo: Members of Faith:







:firelite-photo: Houses of Worship:





:firelite-photo: Inspirational Photographs:






:firelite-photo: Prose and Poems:




:firelite-photo: Stamps



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We encouragement all of our valued Members to use the DA Religious Forum Club Forum, however, unlike other Forums we have a much stricter set of rules of use that we call "The Rules of Engagement" , and they will be enforced.

If you cannot be civil in your responses or posts, then we encourage you to seek other discourses. That does not mean that you cannot disagree with someone's post, it just means that you cannot attack someone personally. This will be a diplomatically oriented attempt at religious debate, and a safe haven for those who wish to participate.

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=lokisb:iconlokisb: Dec 7, 2007, 1:00:45 PM
"Art and Religion are inseparable."

Don't agree, art strives beyond religion. Which is the release of man, not the compass by which art is guided.

Art will chose a theme, but not it need to be religious. I find this very annoying. Self discovery is not religious, its human. Inspiration comes from everything including poo.

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~Amilee:iconAmilee: Dec 7, 2007, 6:01:06 PM
I love this a lot. I agree, as in order for me to express how I feel about my religion I tend to turn towards art both drawing and looking.

They go hand in hand that's undeniable!

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Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonapart

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
Amy Tan
=Renilicious:iconRenilicious: Dec 7, 2007, 6:53:59 PM
"Art and Religion are inseparable."

The hell it is. The initial intention of art was communication long before the written language came into being. It has nothing to do with religion aside from the fact that there are some rather lovely RELIGIOUSLY INSPIRED artworks and that those artworks were predominantly used for illustrating to the common masses the stories of religion, ie, communication - it's basic anthropology there. Sure there are some who think of their artwork as an expression of their faith and understanding of themselves as you've described but it's foolish to generalise all art under the same presumption.
=jennabee25:iconjennabee25: Dec 7, 2007, 7:28:34 PM
I do agree with this statement insomuch that religion certainly has inspired a lot of art, especially in antiquity. Most medieval European art was commissioned by the church, including paintings, architecture, and sculpture. Southeast Asian cultures made beautiful statues of their temple guardians. Look at the illustrations of Hindu deities.

Religion still inspires art today, but there is a lot out there that isn't religious, too. I do like the idea of exploring the religious side of art, though!

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=lokisb:iconlokisb: Dec 7, 2007, 8:20:48 PM
:ahoy:

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=lokisb:iconlokisb: Dec 8, 2007, 12:16:42 PM
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*PatGoltz:iconPatGoltz: Dec 9, 2007, 5:45:50 AM
I actually would assign a considerably more fundamental role to religion, as it pertains to art. Your religion (or irreligion) is your outlook, your world view (Weltanschauung). A person may not realize it, but the type of art, the way he expresses himself artistically, is formed by who he is, and who he is is best expressed in his outlook. Everything has religious implications. We are fundamentally a religious species, or as can be explained in rather trivial terms, we have a God-shaped hole we have to fill. If we don't fill it with one thing, we will fill it with another. Whatever we fill it with is our religion. Some people may scoff as those here have done, but they're just displaying THEIR world view. It gets down to the fundamental question often, whether you look at things darkly or with joy. Do you do dark art, or violent art, or porn? This all has religious implications, even if you don't think it does.

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