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Share| Archive By @techgnotic Horse Power In Art History Power & Grace In Motion Above and beyond that, a unique aesthetic beauty unmatched by any other living creature in creation. There is the reality of the horse and there is the idea of the horse. Combined in a single construct, a special art has existed to celebrate the horse since the first human artists used the stone walls of their cave dwellings as the first canvases. Watching Werner Herzog’s 2010 documentary on the Chauvet Caves in southern France, Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) , gives one a sense of the powerful bond of human and horse, of the capture of early humanity’s im...

Share| Archive “Some use Ink, I confide in Silver” — Lauren E. Simonutti @lauren-rabbitQuote by Lauren E. Simonutti “ The misfirings of my beloved/despised mind that conspire to convince me to destroy all have rendered me housebound and led to a solitary life. A creature of past, proof, memory and imaginary friends, I am aware enough to know the things I see and hear are not real, but that does not mean I do not still see and hear them.” Foreword by @techgnotic For a very long time Lauren Simonutti's haunting photographs were a spectral presence amongst the deviantART community, as emulators sought to discover and replicate the mysterious...

Share| Archive by @techgnotic Most denizens of the West think of New Zealand as a little known outpost of civilization somewhere beyond Australia at the ends of the Earth. Could any land be any farther from the European motherland, birthplace of the Renaissance that is the Genesis-point of the visual arts narrative we continue expanding and evolving today?  And yet this remote country of islands in the Pacific has suddenly become a cinematic storytelling powerhouse, a film-friendly factory for the creation of some of the most important touchstone mass entertainment experiences to influence our popular culture in recent years. King Thrandu...

Share| Archive By @techgnotic His Books of Blood in the 1980s established him as a premier master of the horror narrative, on an equal level or even surpassing Stephen King, who said of him; I have seen the future of horror, his name is Clive Barker. Stephen King Like King, Barker’s works of horror have been adopted and adapted for movies, his stories becoming the basis for the Hellraiser and Candyman series and many more. Beyond his stories being used as source material, Barker has worked as screenwriter, producer, actor and director in the film world. As with Stephen King, many of Clive’s fans have found him through enjoying hi...

Google+TwitterFacebookArtists Credit @priteeboy T he Deviousness Award, bestowed in recognition of exemplary membership and an outstanding spirit of helpfulness and mentoring within the DeviantArt community, has recently undergone a reevaluation to provide a focus and a re-definition as to just what Deviousness truly represents. The award is given once per month to honor a deviant who has gone above and beyond in their services to the DeviantArt Community. The 189 recipients of the Award thus far have brought something to the community that was not there before their presence, and it's our duty — and honor — to publicly recognize their eff...

Share| Archive By @techgnotic I am haunted in this holiday season by the opening lines of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, his novel about a society 250 years ago coming apart in its seemingly irreconcilable divisions. Could it be these lines define where we have come to find ourselves today? “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, in the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…” ur own epoch is one of the technological miracle of inst...

by @techgnoticW orld War I (1914-1918) was a human catastrophethat devastated Western civilization and mocked the hope inherent in “modernism”. The sheer volume of the war’s slaughter was beyond belief. The horror of it all destroyed the trust in science, medicine and technology as the golden gateway to a harmonious and peaceful future for humanity. All that was thought to be good had been twisted to the evil purpose of a global war. A global sense of hopefulness was replaced with a global sense of fear and loathing. untitled 14 by Peterio Salvador Dali autosodomized by neofotistou Rain Spell by temporary-peace The arts community re...

Share| Archive For The People Get the App Learn About What's to Come Report a Bugby @techgnotic A s you explore the possibilities just opened up to you by the DeviantArt Mobile App, you should all be asking more than just “how can this app entertain me,” but instead, how can this tool and the network of arts enthusiasts, fandoms, and creators that it represents, help me do my part to inspire and change the world? You are now connected, we are now all connected, with DeviantArt wherever you are and whenever you want. Art is still humanity’s most powerful, magical and non-suppressible agent of change. Don’t believe the hype. You can make a d...

Share| Archive by @techgnotic Game of Thrones spearheads resurgence in sword & sorcery fantasy art of Warrior Kings & Queens. Game of Thrones by @Asidpk A very small man can cast a very large shadow by @RobotDelEspacio Jon Snow by @TeiIku Oberyn Martell by @p1xer Ygritte by @AniaMitura Daenerys by @Shilesque A Song Of Ice And Fire by @alexnegrea Bran Stark by @aprilis420 Arya Stark by @Yip-Lee The current popularity of the bloody and salacious Game of Thrones and a host of paler imitators may have roots in Cate Blanchett’s Oscar-worthy performance as the historical Elizabeth (1998) , the Queen who was perhaps the most important ruling ...

Share| Archive A Collaboration between @Marx77 & @DeevElliott What must any of us do before we can understand what we read in the Book of Life? When is one ready to write upon its pages his or her own contributions? Life is no passive gathering of information. It is not a spectator sport. Only in participation is one truly alive. In order to express feelings or opinions about anything in life, one must have a personal experience of it. Only personal experience conveys the qualification and the right to speak, to write or to create art as explanation and explication of any topic of discussion and debate. Masai Mara Cheetahs by @batmantoo W...