Following in the fine tradition of many of the other hosts on this wonderful space, a blog, the InkBlog, has been created to collate and highlight the movements of the seemingly sombre and yet incredibly artistically energetic Dark ARTists…
Dark art
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the art style.
Primarily a product of the 20th Century, dark art is an art style defined as that being “dark” or unsettling in nature. Called and classified under many names such as gothic, horror, metaphysical, nightmarish, and disturbing, it is actually a culmination of techniques and styles. It has been presented in many forms by many artists, illustrators and film-makers. It continues to grow in popularity as a part of the horror genre and gothic, music and publishing culture. Today, it a part of our mainstream culture, crossing over into multiple mediums including advertising, television, film, and marketing. While it has roots in horror, it has been presented in collage, surrealism, abstract, motion graphics, grunge, expressionism, and largely digital art.
This is definitive of many ‘dark arts’ however I consider it to be very broad, how would you describe the type of dark art you do?
If you are not a DARK ARTist, what type of Dark Art would you do if you were?
I would love to hear some other opinions about the perception of dark art in the broader community.
How do you feel, for example, when confronted with a lot of it as is the case in the dark art gallery?
PARALLEL SPIRITUALITY
In another dimension, are we? Were we? Where are we? And what would we believe in?
Group challenge-spirituality in another dimension in the Parallel Dimensions group.
SPIRITUAL ART AND OPEN MINDEDNESS
Some artists have contributed to the art forum for Spiritual Equality...
Below is Tolerance by Katrina Prince Host of Spritual Art
BLACK INKY WRITING
There is particularly thought provoking written works in the group, this by the young Daath (soon to have a different name) Samael who was inpired by an image by burningark
Daughter of Chaos by Daath Samael
SPHERICAL DARKNESS
The forever charming and quirky Empress has added a challenging Dark Arts thrill by challenging the members of the group to a writing challenge by the Short Stories and Spherical Scriptings Group…. to coincide with the June Soltice no less…
This is her forum post
Welcome to crime writing weekenders in the Short Story Group ... there’s one scheduled to coincide with the June solstice, surely a notable date on the Dark Arts calendar.
The theme or the ingredients goes live friday morning with the complete stories to be posted by midnight the monday after. For example: Marpellette Manor
If you are so literary inclinded, you may also be interested in their Written in the Stars competition. THERE ARE BUBBLE CASH PRIZES OFFERED ON THIS ONE…
VAMPIRES AND THE LIGHT
One of our members G.L. Giles writes books…
Gather her works by looking at these links…
“On Lightworking”:http://www.voicesfrombeyond7.com/PsychicTimesWelcome.html is a free download
www.TheVampireVignettesRevamped.net
www.vampirelibrary.com
www.amazon.com
www.barnesandnoble.com
Oh, and you might find her interview with Raven Digitalis (author of Goth Craft) interesting too, covering what it’s like to be a darksider, it will be a free download as well at www.metacreativemagazine.com on April Fools Day.
Happy shadows…
kseriphyn
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3 months ago
Nice newsletter. Cheers.