sher richardson 02 Feb 2005

This may be a hard one since Fine art is a type or genre and Digital painting is a medium... what you have basically is a mixture on your list is of categories and mediums...

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I feel Digital Painting should be reworded into *'Digital Arts'...(to include photo manips)

*Fine Arts and Traditional Mediums

*Illustration/Graphic Design/ Comics (since all are relative)

Thats the best i can do : )

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But you actually need to expand the categories..with this large membership it would be nice to have a few more category options.....

Patrick Miller 02 Feb 2005

I agree with Sher....the catagories you have are a little skewed. There are two catagories - digital painting, and 3-D rendering...are they not both of the digital medium? Photo manips could be in that catagory as well. Fine art should be all traditional mediums. I would like to see an Abstract catagory as there are so many I think.

And whats up with the already existing one - interactive?.....huh??

sher richardson 02 Feb 2005

...did someone call for housekeeping? : )

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1*Anime-Manga/Cartoon and Comics

2*Traditional Mediums

3*Digital Art and 3D Rendering

4*Fine Art/Abstracts

5*Graphic Design/ Illustration

6*Photography

Patrick Miller 02 Feb 2005

Better Sher...but what is the difference between fine art/abstract and tradititonal mediums?

Also....what about sculpture/tactile art? which could include pottery, sculpture etc.

Nina Kuriloff 03 Feb 2005

Fine art is a large category into which art/drawing would fit into well.

Cartoon/Comics can be considered part of the category of Illustration.

I think that those who create digital paintings consider their art to be "Fine art."

Maggi Carstairs 03 Feb 2005

Graphic Art Digital Art Fine Art ......these three should cover the areas and are concise and easy to understand

Maggi Carstairs 03 Feb 2005

Digital Art Graphic Art and Illustration Fine Art........

These three areas encompass the lot...

David Díez 03 Feb 2005

Classification in the 3 levels: Style, Subject and Medium. And they should be allowed to choose from 3 drop downs, instead of having only one for ArtWanted.com Gallery.

My suggestions - orientatives -:

Styles: - Anime/Manga - Cartoon/Comics - Advertising - Vanguardist/Surreal - Figurative Realist - Figurative Imaginative - Photography - ...

Subjects:

- Portrait/People - Landscape/Urbanscape - Architecture - Still life - Nature - Scientific - Technical - Symbolism - No subject applicable - ...

Mediums:

- Pencil - Charcoal - Ink - Pastels - Oil - Acrylics - Watercolor - Computer 2D - Computer 3D - ...

At the moment, AW has some weird mix of these things. But see this fact: photography is a style and a medium at the same time.

joan warburton 03 Feb 2005

I like Sher's first suggestion; just add photography as a fourth.

RQ Trietsch 03 Feb 2005

My two cents worth.

1. 3D Rendering/Digital Painting

2. Anime/Manga/Cartoon/Comics

3. Art/Drawing

4. Misc.(Sculpture/Glass/Cloth/Jewelery)

5. Fine Arts

6. Graphic Design/Illustration

7. Photography.

David Díez 03 Feb 2005

- Anime/Manga Art

- Cartoon/Comics Art

- Advertising Art

- Vanguardist/Surreal Art

- Figurative Realist Art

- Figurative Imaginative Art

- Photography Art

- Volumetric Art

Juan Gomez 03 Feb 2005

Hate to say this what a MESS..nothing simple about this project good Luck All.

Christina Toews 03 Feb 2005

The issue with the term "Fine Art" is that it's very subjective. Some people consider "Fine Art" to be of the same style and techniques of the "old masters", stuff you would see in museums. The definition "art you would see in a traditional art gallery" doesn't really work either, becuase there is anything and everything in galleries now.

I also have a bit of concern with the suggested "traditional media". I am a colored pencil artist, which to some people, is still not a "real" art. A lot of people consider it to still be something you do in school, not something you make real art out of. So is this a traditional medium that I am working in? What about scratchboard, is that traditional?

Really, if we needed only 3 categories, they would have titles, yes, but they would also have to have descriptions that explained what exactly they encompassed.

Digital Art - photo-manipulation, digital painting, 3D rendering, etc...

Photography - photographs with little or no manipulation

Cartoons/Illustrations - anime, comic books, logos, marketing art, etc...

(insert title here LOL) - paints, pencils, scratchboards, woodburning, pastels, etc etc...

I think you get the point, anyways. A "title" can't really encompass a whole type/style of work, because to each person, that title is going to mean different things.

AW - good luck with this one, there are a LOT of differing opinions! :)

Christina Toews 03 Feb 2005

Just a question... AW - why do we need to keep the galleries under 10? If anything, we could use MORE galleries, make them more specific... don't you think? People would have a better chance locating art in their field of interest if there was more of a selection, seeing as some of the galleries already are quite broad.

03 Feb 2005

Andrew Liberto 03 Feb 2005

I think it should be simplified (not expanded) to "Five Major Categories" and then have drop down menus for each category. For example under Fine Art, inlcude a drop down menu that has Painting, Drawing, Sculpture. Under Graphic Design/ Illustration, have Logos, Print Media Design, Book Illustration, Cartoons, Anime/Manga Comics, etc.

The problem is Digital Art, which can be fine art or graphic design or even illustration. Give it it's own category anyway. The same with Photogaphy.

1) Digital Art and 3D Rendering

2) Fine Art

3) Graphic Design/Illustration

4) Photography

5) Other or Tactile Arts (Thanks Patrick!)

Under #5, list ceramics, pottery, textiles, candle making, glass-blowing, whatever.

OK, Juan's right! What a mess! A ceramic piece could be sculpture or it could be a lamp. Photography could be fine art or it could be a snap shot. Is Anime that was done in watercolor fine art or is it a graphic? You could go on forever with this. I think AW has to say, "At this site, here's what it is".

Steph Salt 03 Feb 2005

I think there will always be an overlap of any art, no matter how the headings are altered, especially now mixing mediums is getting more and more popular.

I've seen photos blown up and paineted onto, cut up and combined into pictures, clay modeling into a picture etc. Now which gallery would you place them in?

It will always be up to the artist to decide what they want there art listed as.

Shers list is good and it was nice to see I'm not the only one stuck on where to place manips :)

Sarah-Lynn Brown 03 Feb 2005

I think that keeping Manga/Anime seperate from ALL other categories is a way to keep a majority of the kiddies in place.

American comics and Japanese Manga have nothing in common style-wise and to combine the two would be like trying to mix oil and water.

Spurgeon Marshal 03 Feb 2005

I like shers first suggestion best.

ghada zoughby 04 Feb 2005

I think modifications must be by combining

*fine art and art drawinf misc

*digital art and 3d rendering,manipulated photography/(DIGITAL)

*graphic design and illustrations and interactive

*anime manga and cartoons/

*and by keeping photography (not manipulated)as a separated gallery,because I think that "virgin" photo most be evaluated apart from the manipulated one.