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Interactive Online Art Communities: Main Advantages
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or so it was decided for us. In the days before the internet was available to most of us, it was only a handful of art critics, so called experts and of course the almighty art galleries that could make or break an artist. In other words it was decided for us what was deemed art and what was not.
The saying is that art ought to be discussed as well as seen, but if you had no access to these all powerful people, it would not have even been seen. Except of course by your family and friends perhaps. Tragically this meant that a vast number of fantastic artists were never discovered.
This is really an unacceptable situation. Art should be accessible to anyone, and people should be able to discuss it, comment on it, and even submit their own art in places where artists and art enthusiasts gather.
Fortunately, the increasing availability of the Internet is changing the ways in which artists can present their work and invite feedback and discussion. The "Web 2.0" concept is all about using web technology to bring people together and create communities and social networking.
Now we are free to not simply be consumers who can only get information that has been been "pre-screened" for us by so called experts. We are now able to enjoy information that is freely available and are even able to generate information and content on any subject we would like to share with the world. And this is particular great news if you are an artists.
When you look at trends in entertainment, you see that traditional monolithic information providers such as commercial TV and newspapers are in the ropes while user communities and user-generated content flourishes. I myself rarely watch commercial network TV anymore. There is so much interesting stuff on the web that commercial-interrupted TV has completely lost its appeal.
And can you then imagine the massive boom that contemporary artists have received from this technology explosion? For those amongst us with a creative spirit in our souls it means that we no longer have to simply rely upon the old fashioned ways of being "discovered". Now we can truly rely upon the fact that normal, everyday individuals get to view our art. And it is now the public that decide what is art and what is not. Viva la revolucion!...
Unfortunately this, of course, does not guarantee immediate fame and fortune, but clearly it provides what the vast majority of artists desires most: feedback from fellow artists and art lovers alike. Plus the opportunity to display their art to perhaps many millions of potential art enthusiasts.
There are any number of ways in which artists can take advantage of the web. They can use one of the major social networks, they can join special art communities and forums, or they can even create their own interactive online art galleries to display anything from landscape painting to portraits, sketches, abstract art or anything else they may specialize in.
Visitors can browse the site and buy art directly from the artist. They can also interact with the artists via chat, discussion boards or other means of communications. Online gallery artists may also do video interviews or presentations, polls, classes or lead discussion groups. Site visitors may commission art from artists whose work and style they like. The opportunities are endless.
No more time consuming searches for galleries that are willing to exhibit the artists work. Thanks to the internet artists are now able to put themselves and their work right in front of art connoisseurs and potential buyers. No longer will they have to wait to be "discovered" by someone as web lets you discover them directly.
About the Author If you enjoyed this article then you can discover many more at the writers website. Anna Meenaghan is an artist that uses a great many subjects to bring her art to life. Ranging from realism all the way to art posters. Why not visit her online, interactive art community?
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