It seems that every artistic medium has paid tribute. Figure 1, illustrating the invisible black backdrop technique, is a photograph of me and a raven taken by the deviant Darlene Munro (). Portraits of the man tend to dominate, however, as does raven-based art, ranging from the crude to the impressive. Certain fans have pictures of themselves beside the tombstone at his original burial place others have favored us with photos of the Poe statue in Baltimore or the EAP Museum in Richmond. We can also find scans of pages-portraits, letters-from various collections of Poe’s works or scholarly studies. These galleries feature paintings, drawings, photography, poetry, crafts, cosplay (dressing up as fictional characters), modeling, digital art, graphic novels, and short pieces of prose presumably in the Poe mode. The largest is “Edgar-Allan-Poe,” with 181 members as of this writing, and 201 watchers. Others are theme-related it may not surprise readers to know that deviantART features several groups devoted to Poe. Many groups are general and will accept photographs (or poetry or prose) on any theme.
One can get exposure by joining various groups once a member, deviations of other members of the group appear on one’s personal site in batches for our perusal. Once uploaded, a photo (called a “deviation” on the site) can be “faved” by other “deviants” (the name for members), who can write personal or public notes commenting on the deviation. The site’s vibrant social network environment receives over 160,000 daily uploads of original art works ranging from traditional media, such as painting and sculpture, to digital art, pixel art, films and anime.Ĭonsidering myself a serious amateur photographer, I paid a small fee and joined. Founded in August 2000, deviantART is the largest online social network for artists and art enthusiasts with over 31 million registered members, attracting 65 million unique visitors per month.Īs a community destination, deviantART is a platform that allows emerging and established artists to exhibit, promote, and share their works within a peer community dedicated to the arts.
I can do no better than to quote from the home page:ĭeviantART was created to entertain, inspire, and empower the artist in all of us. I discovered that deviantART (DA) is an online community for artists to upload, share, and discuss their work. The name surprised me it sounded as if it were a website for perverts. I found the usual atrociously written high school essays citing me and other scholars (with the usual misspelling of “Allan”) one cocky adolescent even attempted to refute my thesis on the narrator as paranoid schizophrenic in “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Then I came across an essay quoting extensively from one of my articles on “The Masque of the Red Death.” It was written by “Artemis Aesthetic,” who had a thumbnail photo of herself on the page, so I followed the link and eventually found her on a website called deviantART (). A few years ago, the professorial ego being what it is, I decided to amuse myself by doing a Google search with “Brett Zimmerman and Poe” to see what would turn up.
0 kommentar(er)
