A lot of people who create art are interested in art in general and its history. However lots of people on deviant do not know much about the history of art (not only digital but also traditional) and I am one of them. So after some chat sessions with lots of people on deviant I decided to start an Art History Project on deviant, main goal of the project is to learn about the history of art.

The way to do this will be :

1: monthly news item and/or journal about a specific art movement
2: monthly contest about a specific art movement

The first item will be created by myself, although interesting information about the theme is welcome to give a complete view. In a month i will be studying the art movement of the month so I can write an interesting journal/news item about it for all interested people on deviant.

The second item is the contest which can be entered by all deviants. The winner will be picked by myself or a voting system (not sure yet how I get the most honest way of selecting a winner). Of course the deviation much has the monthly art movement as theme. And to create a good work you have to search for information about the art movement theme so you can learn more about it! Interested isn't it?

So the idea is simple and let's just give it a try with this month's first art movement:

POP-ART

- The contest can be entered by all deviants and must have POPART as theme.
- Deadline will be 1st of April 2009
- Only 1 entry per deviant is allowed
- Best 10 entries will be added to the monthly news/journal item
- Entries can be submitted by sending me a note with the following subject: ' POPART contest ' and with the thumb of the entry in it.

Suggestions, questions, help or whatever information you want to share are welcome!

Now let's start the fun and spread the word!!