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My Personal Nightmare [an art challenge]

^RockstarVanity:iconRockstarVanity: reports, 3h 12m ago
A horror photography art challenge to inspire the darker side of your creativity. This is a fun community project, not a contest, so its open to absolutely everyone regardless of dA status or skill/experience level. Click through to find out how you can join in...
12 comments   Projects  Last +fav: ^Thebuild

Underappreciated X

=The-Avel-Fairy:iconThe-Avel-Fairy: reports, 1d 25m ago
Awesome but underappreciated work.
26 comments   Projects  Last +fav: ~3rik

July Community Projects

$Moonbeam13:iconMoonbeam13: reports, 23h 9m ago
Awareness, Holidays etc for July

ProjectComment: 0-5/Issue 6

~ProjectComment:iconProjectComment: reports, July 7
The 0-5 Issues feature a deviant as well as 3 deviations with less than 5 original comments from a wide selection of art.

Please give your time to write constructive comments and to make a true difference to the artists featured here.

Thematic Art Presents: Project Colours!

~ThematicArt:iconThematicArt: reports, July 6
As we promised, our June submissions with the theme "Colours"! And a special feature to our affiliates' 3 most colourful June submissions. :thumb71902294:
13 comments   Projects  Last +fav: ~depshado

Announcing: AC3 - Last Night on Earth

=KneelingGlory:iconKneelingGlory: reports, July 3
Want something to challenge yourself artistically? Come check out the Artist's Challenge 3: Last Night on Earth, hosted by *TazzyDee and =KneelingGlory! Open to ALL MEDIUMS!

ProjectComment: 0-5/Issue 5

~ProjectComment:iconProjectComment: reports, July 4
The 0-5 Issues feature a deviant as well as 3 deviations with less than 5 original comments from a wide selection of art.

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Sharing your Secrets XI

=DeviantArtSecret:iconDeviantArtSecret: reports, July 2
Welcome to the tenth issue of Sharing Your Secrets – the article from DAS that will feature 15 secrets from the club account at the beginning of each month.
4 comments   Projects  Last +fav: =SoraMidori

Underappreciated IX

=The-Avel-Fairy:iconThe-Avel-Fairy: reports, July 2
Awesome but underappreciated work.
22 comments   Projects  Last +fav: ~Talnoy

Calling ALL Deviants!

*motionlessSndtrk:iconmotionlessSndtrk: reports, July 1
Donations needed for The Beth Anderson Medical Fund. Treatment begins July 13! We need your help!

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July Community Projects

$Moonbeam13:iconMoonbeam13: reports, 23h 9m ago
Awareness, Holidays etc for July

Underappreciated X

=The-Avel-Fairy:iconThe-Avel-Fairy: reports, 1d 25m ago
Awesome but underappreciated work.
26 comments   Projects  Last +fav: ~3rik

Thematic Art Presents: Project Colours!

~ThematicArt:iconThematicArt: reports, July 6
As we promised, our June submissions with the theme "Colours"! And a special feature to our affiliates' 3 most colourful June submissions. :thumb71902294:
13 comments   Projects  Last +fav: ~depshado

My Personal Nightmare [an art challenge]

^RockstarVanity:iconRockstarVanity: reports, 3h 12m ago
A horror photography art challenge to inspire the darker side of your creativity. This is a fun community project, not a contest, so its open to absolutely everyone regardless of dA status or skill/experience level. Click through to find out how you can join in...
12 comments   Projects  Last +fav: ^Thebuild

ProjectComment: 0-5/Issue 6

~ProjectComment:iconProjectComment: reports, July 7
The 0-5 Issues feature a deviant as well as 3 deviations with less than 5 original comments from a wide selection of art.

Please give your time to write constructive comments and to make a true difference to the artists featured here.

Adopt-a-Newbie is BACK!

~AdoptANewbie:iconAdoptANewbie: reports, 1d 17h ago
The adopt-a-newbie photographer program is getting back into action!!

The Secret Creature Trade

~Creature-Society:iconCreature-Society: reports, July 6
Hosted by the Creature Society club, this event is inspired by the Secret Santas that pop up around November and December. But our mission here: Expose Deviantart's creature designers to the creations of fellow dA artists!

ProjectComment: 0-5/Issue 7

~ProjectComment:iconProjectComment: reports, 1h 39m ago
The 0-5 Issues feature a deviant as well as 3 deviations with less than 5 original comments from a wide selection of art.

Please give your time to write constructive comments and to make a true difference to the artists featured here.

Art Project - Deviants Wanted.

=andanar:iconandanar: reports, July 7
A community project looking at human individuality.

Art FTW Progress Update

~neverblue:iconneverblue: reports, 14h 12m ago
Find out about the charities Art FTW will be benefiting, a list of confirmed participating artists, and make sure you keep an eye out for us cause pre-ordering will be open in the next few weeks!
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Observation

=roovel:iconroovel: reports, January 21, 2008
:postit: Basics

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
Hans Hofmann


Expression is a vivid representation of meaning, sentiment, or feeling..
It's a significant and impressive indication, whether by language, appearance, or gesture with that manner or style which gives life and suggestive force to ideas and sentiments.

In aesthetic theory, a popular view is that a work of art derives its effect by expressing the feelings of its creator. The view that this is their value was forcibly presented by Croce and Collingwood and probably strikes many artists as correct. It raises the problem of the existence, and nature, of these feelings before they take shape in words, painting, or whatever other medium is chosen.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
Friedrich Nietzsche


In this case simplicity is not exactly a lie, but lead us to multiple errors.

Considering the senses as interfaces for acquisitioning feelings and such, the deduction would be: aren’t they as subjective as any kind of self-opinion or thought ? more than that aren’t they influenced, manipulated, controlled ?

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Friederich Nietzsche


:postit:Criticism


Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under your observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius

Observation is a powerful way to gain knowledge. It is also very subtle, as you pick things up you may not even think about.

But is that called knowledge ? Is reality, as we perceive it, a discovery ?

Despite the importance of the senses for life, science, and knowledge of all variety, much about the senses remains obscure.

Is it possible to talk about expression without mentioning aesthetics? And is it possible to talk about aesthetics without mentioning beauty?

Aesthetics by definition is a guiding principle in matters of artistic beauty & taste, the artistic sensibility.

What if the principles and all those common feelings towards art, this sensibility falls under the only principle that principles are a fruit of our mind & all those consequences we fear are in front of us, provoking the self to doubt of every thought passing through every little piece of observation, then of interpretation.

In an extended point of view, artists unconsciously observe things, present them & admit that they’re the only truth they seek.
Usually, we don’t discuss this fact with our inner selves. The fact of being this kind of individual, creating from nothingness or even under any sort of emotional influence or social circumstances: the pure self represented in every piece, recreated into another dimension, becoming a reality to the eyes of the passionate watcher, a memory of another self visible to all, and sometimes not consciously present for the artist himself.

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead to truth.
Alexis Carell



:postit: Art of Observation & Observation of Art

Observations are more than the mere causal impact of external physical stimuli, since such stimuli only give rise to observations in a properly prepared and receptive mind. Nor are they well thought of in terms of atomistic ‘impressions’.

Observation seems to require the use of cognitive powers of classification and memory in tandem with the use of the senses.
In a correlation with Kant’s famous remark: ‘thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind’ in “Critique of Pure Reason”.


The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Our entire being is nourished by it. This mystic quality of color should likewise find expression in a work of art. In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

Hans Hofmann

It takes concentration and focus, & an ability to bring all your senses to bear in your observation.

The only pre-existent art is the faculty to reflect the world, reproduce the senses.

Observation is socially exhausted by other’s eyes projecting our considerations into common logical errors and sensitive speculations, major consequences of influenced opinions mixed with emotions.

The simple deduction to be considered here is primarily the full respect of all forms of artistic expression whether it does concern our interest or not.



:postit: Previous Discussions


Imagination | Simplism| Truth | Focalizing


Please Note that any kind of Critique is welcome.

Thanks for showing interest. :+favlove:



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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

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=bagnino:iconbagnino: Jan 22, 2008, 1:03:09 AM
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. - the best for me

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~Takker88:iconTakker88: Jan 22, 2008, 1:03:13 AM
Thanks! :)

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*tjasa:icontjasa: Jan 22, 2008, 2:53:11 AM
absolutely wonderful piece of news, i have read all of it :)thank you for including me :rose:

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~Web2day:iconWeb2day: Jan 22, 2008, 6:56:23 AM
Critique of Pure Reason what a nice one!!!

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~punktzbiegu:iconpunktzbiegu: Jan 22, 2008, 6:57:45 AM
very interesting article... i really enjoy it :)
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~Wodanislav:iconWodanislav: Jan 22, 2008, 11:31:10 AM
Fantastic article... keep them coming George, btw I'm looking forward to continuing our little mind exploration ;)

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~ReticentDevil:iconReticentDevil: Jan 22, 2008, 12:18:39 PM
oh my head hurts now.....i could only kinda skim it over lunch.......but now i've gotta come back later
 

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