Internet Arts...

The internet is amazing.

I know this may seem obvious, but I think that I underestimated the depth of which the internet can be used for artistic expression and the arts community. There are thousands, if not millions of web sites, blogs, and vlogs dedicate to the arts. There are of course the web sites that are for official arts communities, professional artist and dealers, and for museums and art publications. But, there are by far much more “starving” artist, and these amateurs and working class artist have filled the internet with art.

So are so many people with so much talent, that I think it is revolutionizing art. I think that art is no longer just something that people have to go to a museum or art gallery to see. I think the internet is giving artist of all statures the ability to share their art with the world. The revolution does not just affect those artists who work in the visual arts, such as painting, and drawing, and photography, and graphic arts. This revolution affects the written word as well, and it is also affecting the spoken word.

Not to mention that an application for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts is just a click away.

Online there is a blending of art…it seems as though sometimes it is hard to tell where different styles stop and others begin. There also seems to be so much positive feedback between artists. On community sites and blogging sites there is a type of negative mist that seems to hang in the electronic atmosphere. From the dip I have taken into the world of art on the internet, there seems to be a positive vibe so thick that you could drown in it.

So, to support the arts community on the internet, every week I am going to feature a new artist that I have found on the internet. Look for the first featured internet artist on April 30th, and on that same day I will feature a YouTube internet artist.

Support arts on the internet! (I am going to have to work on that slogan.)