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About Me Member Pop Artist dgerdemMale/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 4 Years
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Artist's Creed/Manifesto

Mon Jul 16, 2007, 2:40 AM
Artist's Manifesto/Creed/Mission Statement.

I, ___________________, will make art because I want to.

I will make one original work or pop out one idea a day.

I will enjoy looking at art almost as much as making it.

I will experiment with and delve into art making both popular and obscure.

I will fail.

I will triumph.

I will believe in myself and doubt myself.

My muse will kick my rear end in both reality and fantasy.

I will take more chances.

I will connect to the learned know-it-alls and attract and amaze the regular guy.

I will believe what I want to believe in and thumb my nose at gimmick and trends.

I will both conform and live on the left side of the radio dial.

I may not be as smart as you(booksmart, trash talker, name dropper, pop culture knowledge bank, art history speak, etc.) but give me adequate tools and I will create a smart, multidimensional, deep and profound, riddle-like statement in a manner that suits my soul.

I will admire and utilize simplicity and complexity. I will believe that both can walk hand in hand or apart, if need be. Redundant, maybe. Possible, for sure.

I will talk less and work more.

I will eat, drink, love, and sleep art, family, and inspiration.

I will fall apart physically. It’s because I am “working out” artistically.

I will fuse realism, abstraction, cartooning, expressionism, fantasy, and narrative.

I will claim to have it all figured out and be a clean slate at the same time.

(Feel free to add to this if you'd like,I wrote it one night, in my sketchbook, in a fury. It is largely unedited.I truly believe in and hope to live true to this manifesto/creed/mission statement.

  • Mood:
  • Listening to: Ray Charles anthology
  • Reading: Vonnegut(for the first time!)
  • Watching: John from Cinncinati
  • Playing: mac halo
  • Eating: coffee
  • Drinking: coffee

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Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Ohio
  • Interests: Flying without an airplane, wrestling with a 2 and 4 year old. sometimes my wife too.
  • Favourite movie: Amelie, Cool Hand Luke, Eternal Sunshine, Stand by Me.
  • Favourite band or musician: Uncle tupelo, Bishop Allen, Todd Snider, The Replacements.
  • Favourite genre of music: Mellow, alt. country, post-punk, old-new wave.
  • Favourite artist: Fontaine Fox, JacK Kirby, Dave McKean, Aminah
  • Favourite poet or writer: Jonathan Lethem, Stephen King, Seamus Heaney.
  • Favourite photographer: Mary Ellen Mark, Greg Crewdson, Parke-Harrison
  • Favourite style of art: cartoons, underground, troubled artists, video and pinholes.
  • Operating System: mac and pc
  • Shell of choice: Cicada Shell
  • Wallpaper of choice: war and peace
  • Favourite game: Scrabble, tony hawk 1(the reason i no longer own a PS.)
  • Favourite gaming platform: got a gamecube in the house.
  • Favourite cartoon character: Mickey McGuire
  • Personal Quote: Think big once in a while.
  • Tools of the Trade: pencils, acrylic, latex paint, and DV.

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Comments


:iconv-digitalbath-v:
Yaayy! I liked reading your 'Artist's Manifesto/Creed/Mission Statement' it made me smile and I have claps for you *claps*
:icondefoartist:
nice gallery man

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:iconiderunano:
what a gallery !!
:batman:

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I wish i was a Warhol silkscreen
Hanging on the wall..

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:iconwaxpoetic:
i'm returning to the midwest (gasp!). never thought it'd happen... i got into SAIC for grad school so i'm off this summer i think!

this means i will a) have a car to drive to visit cbus much more often and b) i'll be able to actually see shows you're in :)
:icondgerdem:
Follow thy heart young lady. Always follow it. Talk to you soon

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it's the work, it's the work, it's the work
:icondestin4disaster:
Your art work is amazing. It's so like...down to earth but abstract. I love the use of the medium, it s so real and the colors are amazing. You are so talented!

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Prego is a sauce not a state of being

I know, no matter what, no matter who, no matter what I do somebody hates me and I hate somebody too!
:icondgerdem:
Thanks for sure.

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it's the work, it's the work, it's the work
:iconpunchbagbobsrevenge:
I'm sorry for the spam posts! D: That wasn't me, somehow a bug got into my account. You might want to change your password, and don't click that link!

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:icongrusblot:
thank you for the favorite sir. :: )

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-consistently inconsistent.

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:iconexzentrizitat:
As said before,i "found your gallery through the portal of a great deviantart feature...and an amazing discovery it was [is]."

Now it seems necessary to stop by again and offer a positive,but cliche "happy new year" greeting to you and your family.

Your new work?Love it.Overall,each piece you create,regardless of the subject matter,or the style,is still is recognizable as yours.

Cheers and keep it up.
Exzentrizitat

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"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."-Friedrich Nietzsche

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