What Is Art Gallery

Welcome to the "What is Art" MySpace Group's online portfolio.

All members of the group are welcomed to view, possibly buy, sell or post your own work. (For info how to see "PLEASE READ")

Stealing/Copying artwork is prohibited, not even if the artist has granted you informal permission.

Please feel free to contact me gravitys_Zero if you have any questions at all or would like to be a part of our group/gallery.


Thank you!

-Rainbow Sherbert

I am the moderator of this site and WHATISART Myspace.

I will upload your work if you contact me a minimum of the following information:

1. Your name/Short Bio/Location/Age/Artistic Statement so I can create an artist profile for you.
2. Links to your ART images hosted by imageshack/photobucket SO I CAN POST THEM. (I WANT LOTS OF VARIETY OF WORK!!)
3. Links to any online portfolios that you would like me to link to on the site.
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THERE IS NO LINK TO ALL YOUR WORK VIA YOUR ARTIST PROFILE

It all gets displayed under MY NAME becuase I UPLOAD THEM.

THERE IS credit to you in the >>> albums.



thank you!

"Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew knowledge was important and had learned to read and write after a fashion, but he also knew he wasn't nearly as bright as most of the people around him. There was even a white mouse named Algernon who outpaced Charlie in some ways. But a remarkable operation had been performed on Algernon, and now he was a genius among mice. Suppose Charlie underwent a similar operation..."

Within 3 days of posting my art online, I received several requests to buy prints and a musician in Chicago who is buying If Walls could Speak to use as his Album Cover.

“Conceptual Punk Rock Pop Art: Today’s Rebellion is Tomorrow’s Freedom”

Punk rock is one of the most beautiful pop cultures that display’s an everlasting battle between them and society. The nihilism in 1977 has left a stereotypical mark that is thought of today’s punks. My main goal is to craft my art to express the intelligence, kindness, social aspects/philosophies and the oppression of punks in contemporary society.

In order to display my idea, I have to use photographs to choreograph the idea in the painting, or drawing. By doing this I have to take random shots of friends or people I make as friends before taking the shot. When the photos are developed I rule out photos that are good for photography and those good for painting. I build and stretch my own canvases because I am strong believer in the punk ethic in “doing it yourself”. Ninety-five percent of my paintings are done on canvases I built, and the others were bought only because it would have cost more to build the smaller frame opposed to buying it pre-built. After gessoing the canvas, I then either grid the photograph as well as the canvas to guide drawing on it or I use a projector to put the image onto the canvas before drawing it . I then start to paint under florescent lights because by doing this I tend to guess more about how the colors look and they tend to have more of a swirl, brighter, bolder look then when I try to paint in natural sunlight. I use line work to give the figures more of a hard edge and it gives them a cartoon look that muses like David Glass, Roy Lichtenstein, and Raymond Pettibon use in their work. I add random line work in clothing in back round to create movement and energy in the piece that represents the energy in punk music. After painting the piece, I then decide to put text on or not. If I put text on, it’s usually to push the idea that isn’t as easily seen as in other pieces. After deciding on using text, I have to choose to either free hand it, stencil it with plastic or projection or collage it. I paint the sides of the painting black to keep the viewer looking at the painting and signature the frames side with “Fish” or “xFISHx” and date the finishing date.

Each painting has a reason and a purpose that is trying to make people understand punk culture. The whole purpose of making paintings to understand punk culture is because the same ideas are displayed in punk music but no one else is listening. I want people who respect, and hate punk culture to look at these paintings, and drawings so that they can gain an understanding for what the works of art are trying to say. I want people to look at the history and look at today and understand that what happened then isn’t solidly archetypal today. The fashion has stayed the same but the ethics and philosophies have changed because they weren’t getting anywhere with nihilism. Hopefully if people start to listen to what punk culture has to say instead of screaming about their fashion and life style then maybe there will be less tension, distortion, and segregation between the two communities.

Early in his high school years, R. Gibbs became, in his own words, "a student of Eccentricities and Blunder." This sempiternal pursuit seemed to have lead him to gaining appellatives as Public Animal, Pumpcrop, Alacron and The Grandnylon of The Supple Leg. He became attracted to the more scopious designs of such intellectualizations as Chaos in Magic, sexual/drug experimentations, The Karma Sutra, mind expansions (with and without the aid of drugs) and Occultic understandings, though he never recognized any 'religion' as THE religion. Christianity, Alchemy, Astrology, Avidyana, Essoteric Teachings of Gurdjieff, Crowley, Nietzsche, Plato, Schopenhauer, Spinoza and many more systems such as Chaos, Dadaism, Illuminati, Mysticism, Satanism, Tantra, Thelema, Majik and others filled his days and influenced his Art/Fetish.
His writen art/fetish: 'The Pumpcrop Paradox' (novella), 'The Pumpcrop, Poems and Paper Piers', 'The Janus Savior' (novel) and 'The Prime Pickens From The Pumpcrop' (short stories) and his Artistic Invasion entitled 'The Strange and Unusual Dadaian' (drawings). One of his more 'indepth' works has been his MASTER WORKS. These were several books placed together in what has been called 'The Way Of The Supreme Pizza Of The Perfect Sole' or the 'Pumpcroptic Mystycals'.

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>CONTACT ME @ www./pumpcrop<
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I'm an Artist...

No one understands and this is one of those essential reasons I find suicide to be most appealing. I am constantly at odds with life, being full of regrets and hardly at peace in my mind. I revere those who have found the strength to take up weapons against themselves in order to disencumber their souls from this comedy.

And so it was that I begun with such engagement, an artist with hopes and dreams. I was the unsophisticated adventuror heading into the unknown that was, in my own mind, scoped, planned to the slightest detail and wholey desired.

I'm far too complicated and messy a subject to explain in a couple of neat and witty words, so i'll spare you the pain. I could try... but trust me it's no use; it's a waste of clean space. So much awkward fumbling of words without any real value. I've recently discovered it's easier to understand yourself when you stop trying to term, define, and classify.

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>CONTACT ME MYSPACE myspace/bjorke<
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My name is Genevieve, and I am Digital Artist. My mediums consist of Photoshop and Corel IX. I am self taught, I have never taken classes, or went to Art College.
I have a fervent zeal for art, and to create objects with deep symbolism.
Perhaps I will be famous one day...who knows...but for now I am content in experimenting. My first Art show will be next March.
Within 3 days of posting my art online, I received several requests to buy prints and a musician in Chicago who is buying If Walls could Speak to use as his Album Cover. I am humbled by the entire thing...Please someone pich me hard.

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>CONTACT ME MYSPACE geneavieve<
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"they can call me crazy if i fail all the chance that i need is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if i succeed gravity is nothing to me i'm moving at the speed of sound i'm just gonna get my feet wet until i drown..." - Ani D

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>CONTACT ME MYSPACE malbal630<
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VIEW MY ONLINE GALLERY @ albums/a163/MalloryArt/

Born in Harrisburg PA in 1986, Daniel or what most people call him; Fish, was raised in the out skirts of Carlisle. Through the love of punk rock given to him by his friends and bands he's been in which includes Safety Pin Poverty(PA) and Destructive Society(PA), he has found his place in the art spectrum. He now is living in center city Philidephia studying at the university of the arts.

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>CONTACT ME @ www./xfishxart<
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CONTACT:

Paintings: $100-$1500 (Based on size, most paintings under $1000)

Drawings: $10-$500 (Based on size and detail)
- Includes designs templetes, Conceptual fine art and Tattoo designs

Screen Print: $10 per screen+$3 a color+material cost+ labor $50 ($10 after day one)
(If you buy the material to be printed on it'll cost for a one color job at minmium of $63-83)

Photographs: For Bands:::
Color Photo unprocessed in south central pa and Philly $3 per roll
---processed in south central pa and Philly $11 per roll
---processed/ digitially edited put on a cd in south central pa and Philly $30 per roll
(Color processed b/w photo add $2, doubles add $1.70)
(Any where on the North East coast add $10, Mid to West coast add $20, Out of the country, $40 a roll minimum of 5 rolls plus transportation/food/rooming)

Dark Room Quality: $5 for the roll and contact sheet, $5 per print
Hand colored prints add $3 per print.

Portraiture/Artistic Design/Commision photographs:::
Color Photo unprocessed in south central pa and Philly $5 per roll
---processed in south central pa and Philly $12 per roll
---processed/ digitially edited put on a cd in south central pa and Philly $40
(Color processed b/w photo add $2, doubles add $1.70)
(Any where on the North East coast add $20 per roll, Mid to West coast add $40 per roll, Out of the country, $70 per roll minimum of 5 rolls plus transportation/food/rooming)

PLEASE READ

I am the moderator of this site and WHATISART @ .

I will upload your work if you contact me a minimum of the following information:

1. Your name/Short Bio/Location/Age/Artistic Statement so I can create an artist profile for you.
2. Links to your ART images hosted by imageshack/photobucket SO I CAN POST THEM. (I WANT LOTS OF VARIETY OF WORK!!)
3. Links to any online portfolios that you would like me to link to on the site.
==========================================================================

THERE IS NO LINK TO ALL YOUR WORK VIA YOUR ARTIST PROFILE

it all gets displayed under MY NAME becuase I UPLOAD THEM.

THERE IS credit to you in the >>> albums.



thank you!