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The ART in deviantART should no longer be capitalized

=VertigoArt Aug 20, 2012

The difference between ART and literature or photography or painting or digital manipulation or others is not a fine line. Definitions aside, why can't the members of this site post things that the general populace would consider art instead of what your cat considers art. I know this has been brought up time and time again, but it annoys the hell out of me and there is nothing anyone is going to do about it unless every REAL artist (paid or not) takes their ART elsewhere and leaves deviantART to the cell phone pics, the fan-art (not all fan-art is not art), the porn and the shite.

I am not saying that a budding artist should not post their work to get feedback, but be reasonable. Your picture of your cat on its back in black and white is not art. Your picture of yourself in the mirror where we can SEE THE PHONE YOUR ARE TAKING THE PIC WITH is not art. Your sex story about your favorite character from your favorite anime is not art. I could go on, but instead I will go work on my ART.

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^Astralseed Aug 22, 2012 Professional General Artist

Locked by OPs request

~ohanlon Aug 21, 2012 Professional Writer

so you must mean that your stuff is probably what we should base teh capitalized art on?? or maybe even what we should base capitalized art on as good consumers..............

~LoboSabio Aug 21, 2012

Hey, it's a public website. Anybody for the most experienced of artists to someone who only picked up a camera last week can join and post what they come up with. It you want to live in the rarefied air of high culture art, go somewhere else. Me, I'm going to stay down here. It's more colorful. And fun.

=Sabhira Aug 21, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

ConceptArt is just down the road, about a quarter mile. Don't mind the smell, that's just the scent of elitist douchebags. I'm sure you'll fit right in.

~alice-hime Aug 21, 2012

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~NudeDoctor Aug 21, 2012

This should be a sticky, or something.

~alice-hime Aug 21, 2012

Haha, thanks. xD Hopefully, I didn't miss anything.

~mmorpger Aug 21, 2012 Student Writer

In other words, everyone's idea of what art is should be exactly the same as yours?

!goddessofgeek Aug 21, 2012 Traditional Artist

I completely agree and it makes me so happy to know that I'm not the only one who feels this way. I've only been on a few days and it's shocked me that the bulk of the "art" on deviantart is copies of someone else's work (either anime characters or photographs), stories from the school of 50 Shades of Grey, or snapshots that would be great for scrapbooks, but not art photography. Seems like another myspace that masks as an art site. I've seen some good works too, but so far I've been very disappointed in the level of quality.

~PiratesAdventure Aug 21, 2012

Wow, its use seems to surge lately!

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