Art!

I'm really interested in art too so it was nice to read everyone's posts.

Butterfly88, I have used Etsy, it is a useful site but I prefer Society6 as you can create products with your work on them. It's a lot of fun. Ryuuza, I hope your art career goes well, your comics look great! JennyRobin, I like Salvador Dali too! Lanqi414, I made a paper plane when I was younger but it came in a kit so it was more like a cardboard plane with little stickers on it. You could make YouTube videos or a blog of yourself making the planes, lots of people are able to create their own jobs through YouTube or blogging. Adage, yes, Titian's work is so beautiful! HappyCat and Laddo, art is definitely a positive way of feeling less stressed, you're right. They have nice colouring books now, I bought one but I don't want to spoil it by colouring it in. I was thinking of photocopying the pages instead. Aimosan, do you like Mark Rothko's work? I got very upset at a Rothko exhibition as I was completely overwhelmed by the blocks of colour. They were exhibited in such a way that there was just an entire room of his black-form paintings and I lost it.

I have a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and have worked as an artist but I was always fascinated by the philosophy of art, so I went on to do an MA (Master of Arts) in Art, Aesthetics and Cultural Institutions (Philosophy) and now I'm doing a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) where I'm trying to come up with new theories of art. When I was about nineteen years old, I wrote a manifesto about creativity and I wanted to share it with you: 

There are often days we question the authenticity of everything around us, we suffocate under the notion that being anything but true to one’s self and one's work is unthinkable.

It is often hard to choose whether or not to ignore criticism, to take in that which is constructive, to choose whether or not to listen to the ideas of others. It is important to stand up for everything you believe in, it is critical to challenge absolutely everything you disagree with, to reinvent yourself, to reinvent your work whenever you feel like it, if ever you feel like it.

We as creative individuals are not bound to one path controlled by other people’s perceptions, other people’s aesthetic values, principles, beliefs and ideologies, we are entitled to create whatever, wherever, forever.

I'm really interested in art too so it was nice to read everyone's posts.

Butterfly88, I have used Etsy, it is a useful site but I prefer Society6 as you can create products with your work on them. It's a lot of fun. Ryuuza, I hope your art career goes well, your comics look great! JennyRobin, I like Salvador Dali too! Lanqi414, I made a paper plane when I was younger but it came in a kit so it was more like a cardboard plane with little stickers on it. You could make YouTube videos or a blog of yourself making the planes, lots of people are able to create their own jobs through YouTube or blogging. Adage, yes, Titian's work is so beautiful! HappyCat and Laddo, art is definitely a positive way of feeling less stressed, you're right. They have nice colouring books now, I bought one but I don't want to spoil it by colouring it in. I was thinking of photocopying the pages instead. Aimosan, do you like Mark Rothko's work? I got very upset at a Rothko exhibition as I was completely overwhelmed by the blocks of colour. They were exhibited in such a way that there was just an entire room of his black-form paintings and I lost it.

I have a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and have worked as an artist but I was always fascinated by the philosophy of art, so I went on to do an MA (Master of Arts) in Art, Aesthetics and Cultural Institutions (Philosophy) and now I'm doing a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) where I'm trying to come up with new theories of art. When I was about nineteen years old, I wrote a manifesto about creativity and I wanted to share it with you: 

There are often days we question the authenticity of everything around us, we suffocate under the notion that being anything but true to one’s self and one's work is unthinkable.

It is often hard to choose whether or not to ignore criticism, to take in that which is constructive, to choose whether or not to listen to the ideas of others. It is important to stand up for everything you believe in, it is critical to challenge absolutely everything you disagree with, to reinvent yourself, to reinvent your work whenever you feel like it, if ever you feel like it.

We as creative individuals are not bound to one path controlled by other people’s perceptions, other people’s aesthetic values, principles, beliefs and ideologies, we are entitled to create whatever, wherever, forever.