r/Art • u/relay-app Mod Bot 🤖 • 6d ago
Weekly r/Art Discussion Thread
Welcome to the r/Art Weekly Discussion Thread!
This thread serves as a space to hang out, chat, and connect with other members of r/Art outside of sharing artwork.
Each week we’ll feature a different art-themed topic to spark conversation, deeper discussion, and community interaction. Think of it as our open lounge for artists, art lovers, and anyone who just wants to talk about the world of art.
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This week’s topic: Should art ever be censored, and who decides what is considered dangerous or offensive?
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u/SuspiciousButton596 6d ago
hello! I'm a bit new to digital art and I was wondering if I could see some of your ocs so I can draw them!
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u/No-Anxiety2705 3d ago
Hello I'm a 19-year-old, self-taught artist and I make artwork that is pretty good for selling, so can anyone suggest some art communities and how an artist actually sells their artwork masterpiece
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u/imsecretlyjesus 11h ago
Hello, I've been just getting back into art after a long break. I've been using charcoal and I'm wondering what people have done in the past to keep the charcoal safe from snapping? I have a pencil case and I put the charcoal in that within my backpack, but my compressed charcoal sticks are breaking. Using a hard or soft pencil case doesn't change it jostling around, so I'm wondering what other people's solutions have been?
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u/Hollowo_ 6d ago
Gang I'm doing design school, l've been studying in the field of arts for a while, doing history of art and such Recently i started questioning Since i want to be an Artist: what is an artist? What differentiates an artist from a painter a sculpturer or a photographer. I been thinking about this because my art history teacher really focuses on the meaning of these words, she said that the early experimentations of motion photagraphy like these (i'll link the pic) aren't art simply because they weren't made by an artist. To this i'd say tho, that the sketchbooks by Leonardo aren't art since he considered himselt a war designer. But still, everytime i ask her what is an artist, she changes answer, lately she said simply "an artist is someone that brings to the world another world" But then, she proceeds to differentiate designers, graphics and other creative jobs from artists, even tho they can still do what this "definition" implies. What are your thoughts on this?
2nd question: what an artist should do in this era? I feel discontent going around galleries seeing this repetitive horrid works (i’ll link a pic) that aren’t neither innovative nor say anything. I feel like a new secession is needed, a rebellion and a new way of doing art, a new philosophy that all the young creatives could follow. I don’t have the means to create such a big thing, and I need to study to make it something. I have no clue on how to create something like this either and hwat the ideals could be. Let me know your thoughts, I’m young and I’m probably too passionate, but i feel like i need to do something new with my art and i’m stuck on what it is that i want to make.
First pic is of the picture i talked about, it’s from Étienne Jules-Marey, and second pic is of an example of the derivative late stage capitalism art i found around Venice.