As the serial degree person that I was, one of these was in-fact art. My most vivid memory of this is the first lecture when the head of the department produced a tin of baked beans and whacked it down on his hand proclaiming this was art. The usual term of debate about what was art ensued. There was of course, no definitive conclusion to what was art and the sole decision I came to personally was that to define art is not really the point. Everyone has a different perception of what art is and what art means to them.
The 9rules art community explores this diversity in the range of the members. I thought as art was such a diverse an subjective area that rather than discussing more about what art means to me or anything along the personal line, I would look at each of the 4 art blogs in the community and explore their take on art.
- Leihu.com :
Leihu is the blog of James Mathias and has by itself gained a lot of coverage for it’s unique design and dark side. Recently James has also launched a line of limited edition tees which I was quick to sign up for. James shows how web design, life and everything is effected by art. His open nature is great and the wide diversity of subjects gets you coming back for more. The art style is easiest associated with illustration if we are going to pigeon hole him at all. The Illustration fridays is something to check out and the style is reminiscent of skateboarding art to me – in-fact he’s going to even produce limited edition boards at some point (hovering over the payment link in anticipation for these). - Descending ashtray :
Gabe Lueders and Dave Selden are friends turned artist partners for Descending ashtray. This blog charts their adventures in art and the subjects range from photography to instillations and everything else in-between. I love the memories of working with other artists this bring to me and it shows that they have complimentary styles and charts their artistic lives. There is no particular style you can really place on their art created as it’s so varied. The drawings are amazing and make me so jealous as photography was always my thing and life drawing classes made me tremble with fear. It’s a great site to spur the artist in you and get you to just do some art. Seeing their collaborations and work just lights that creative torch paper. - Centripetal Notion :
If nothing else this blog from Justin is diverse. The range of work on show is a magpie selection from all art forms. It’s a feast for the senses including video, music and static work. Described by Justin as:… a daily-ish node for the synaesthetic as heart, inasmuch as it being a fusion of art, design, music, science and technology….
It is great for a feast of the senses this blog delivers content of such great variety that it spans anything you care to label art and some most generally don’t. Centripetal Notion really challenges the traditional notions of what is art and for me this is great as I do believe art can be seen in anything.
- Robot Johnny :
John Martz is a graphic designer and freelance illustrator along with being the editor for Drawn!. This site started as a font bank and then progressed to the form it is in today. The subject matter is varied from comics, illustration through to writing and film with lots of things in the middle. There are still fonts to get and the host himself Robot Johnny is there throughout the site. Comics are a large part of the site and the posts about these are a great resource and trigger of interest. Robot Johnny is a place to hang out and feast your lighter side of art where graphic design and illustration merge.
There you go, that is the art community at 9rules. It might be a smaller community but the subject matter covered shows the diversity of art and also challenges notions of what is art. To me, this is exactly what an art community of blogs should be.
