I think art is just great. Whatever it is that it means. All kinds. It is all tremendously interesting. So many ways of expressing thoughts and ideas and emotions and sensations.

I never fully got what the deal was with DeviantArt. I visited it briefly just now. I absolutely adore the wonderful pretensions of the artists and their artworks. One example, a photograph (female photographer photographing herself), a face (half the face), the words "hate me" painted on the cheek, the photograph is titled "filth." Very ironic. All so delightfully quaint. Not mindblowing, life-affirming, or very moving. But, nonetheless, quite swell.

What are your views on art? Are you an artist? Do you create art?

I like art, and I think I sometimes create art. I'm looking to start painting with oils on canvas.

I love art, I find it very interesting. My favorite class i school is probably Art History. That being said, I couldn't draw a straight line. With a ruler. But I do sing, if you want to call me an artist in that regard.

I make art, if you could call it that:p
I have a Deviant Art
*points at sig
Huzzah

massassians on deviantART unite!
elana18

Unless JK levels or doodles on graph paper count as art, then I wouldn't call myself an artist.

I would say that they do.

Yay for massassi deviants!
Post some of the doodles kyle!^_^

JK levels are certainly art... if .......well, usually they are. doodles can be.

Hamburgers are yummy.

I dabble.
People like what I draw, and I do too, if I ever get around to finishing it. I carry a digital camera around and take lots of pictures too. It's ideal for me because I don't have to be afraid of wasting film since I see the result immediately. Every once in a while I manage to capture something special, or frame a shot well.
Wasn't good enough to get into the University of Industrial Art in Helsinki, or the Architect program at the Helsinki University of Technology. But then again, I'm not sure that I'd enjoy it as much as I do if I had to draw for a living.

Designwise, I've been looking at some of Lebbeus Woods' work lately. He's really fantastic. Large craggy worn blank surfaces. For instance, all of the Combine architecture in HL2 seems to be "inspired", to put it mildly, by Woods' style.

That's some cool stuff, Elana.

I know I can draw well (the thing on my website does not count)...it just a matter of having the will to do so. Despite this, I've never liked art all too much. It's always been my most hated subject in school. I think a lot of it has to do with I always end up with modern art teachers who hate realism (and some times cartoony :D) style. They'll praise a dough ball hanging off-center on piece of construction paper sooner than they'll make the slightest comment about anything I do. (This actually happened.) I was once going to be an animator, but in the end I decided to do my own artwork for fun. I do like looking at art, but it's when some one starts telling me what I should like that I get annoyed. Okay...I'll stop >_>

Click the "Last Stand" Link in my sig... That goes to my DA page and my comic.

http://switchedonmedia.deviantart.com/
more stuff coming soon heh...

hay thanks!

I'm an art student.

simbachu.deviantart.com

wow in like 2 days i just dubbled the # of people i'm watching

I think art is one of the best things you can do as a person.

That's cheating dude

Love art, review it a lot and make music.

http://jlegend.deviantart.com/gallery/

Just putting my poetry there because I have no other webserver to go to (for now).

http://hauntedbyangels.deviantart.com/

Rawr.

I love art, but I really do hate a lot of the pretentious young "artists" who make up deviantart and high school art classes. It's not so much that I don't like their art; it's just that they think they're being very avant-garde by ..I don't know, taking some emo/goth/whatever picture of themselves in the mirror and proclaiming it art. They're not. All the great artists who we consider to be cutting edge - abstract artists like Dali - were very capable of painting a perfectly realistic portrait. It was only after they had mastered the basics - the things they teach you in high school art classes, that they branched out and experimented. I don't really think a lot of the people on deviantart can say the same.

For example, there was a guy in my AP Studio Art class in high school who tried to emulate Pollack. He would just spatter and smear paint on a canvas and call it art. He'd sign it "Osiris Rain." He never once did anything remotely "good" by conventional standards; a realistic portrait, a still life, whatever. I guess you can just chalk it up to being young, but a lot of people try to emulate great abstract art without having the concrete artistic foundation to back it up.

It's not just art, either. I'm sure a lot of you know people who try to write like Joyce or Faulkner in trains of thought, but who can't really write a good persuasive essay in regular English.

btw: http://sine.geekvision.net/art/

http://rokenford.deviantart.com

i'm an artist. my art is what it is, nothing more nothing less. i dislike pretentious *******s who claim their art is really deep and meaningful and can change the world. i'm surrounded by these people every day. most of the time its more of the same. stupid crap. i like art, but i dont like repetition. like andre linoge said "hell is repetition."