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What is deviantART?
If you are interesting in any kind of art, you might hear of the website deviantART. deviantART is a worldwide online community of art that shows the artworks made by the users. Anyone can set up a free access to browse over 800,000 artworks in 2,000 categories, upload unlimited artwork and receive feedback from other users, and participate in or create any art communities and groups all over the world.

Why should we look at it or explore it?
In deviantART, you can find artist around the world uploading their artworks and discussing works with each others. As you see, there is difficult category of art such as digital art, photography, traditional art, literature, flash, films, games, manga, applications skins and more... you will find at least one thing that you like. The greatest thing for being there is you can buy artworks posted by artistes over the world and also selling your artworks to the world by using their shopping system. It is very easy because you just need to upload the picture and choose why size or what product you want it to be. After people choose to buy your work, deviantART will print it out and sent it to the buyer.

Why I choose this website?
I choose this website for the reason that I think it is good for us to explore art and to learn how to appreciate arts. We can see different kind of art made by people in different ideas, believes, and culture background. It is also a good place for us to improve our art and English skills too.

The deviantART website: http://www.deviantart.com/

How I live with Art?

Picture from Poked Studio (http://www.pokedstudio.com/).

Art is anywhere in different place and time. Art is things that I have passion in it. It is not just what we normally think like paintings, drawings, building, fashion, music… People might heard of “Life is an art” or “Life is beautiful”, but what does it means? Every day, I live with art. The airs I breathe, the fire I use for cooking and keep things warm, even myself – human is the arts created by God. Things I do it every day are also a part of art. When I walking on the street, the way I kiss, the way I speak, how I take notes on class, the dinner I cook, even though this paper that I am writing, they are all arts created by me. Sometimes, arts are not just beautiful things but a meaning on it. I draw things to show what I am thinking, what concept I want to let people know. In those drawing, I don’t need to make them look pretty, but just to show what I am thinking now. And this is how I live with ART.

Welcome to 囧rz...

Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Der Gestürzte, Plaster, 1915/6

Hi everyone, thanks for coming to my blog. 囧rz is a blog created for my ART Appreciation 010–0103 GJ5 class. Every week, I will post my blog assignment given by my art appreciation class. Most of the assignments are reflective in nature and help me to explore art in various ways and help to improve my written language skills.

The meaning of 囧rz ( from Wikipedia)

囧 (Mandarin Chinese Pinyin: jiong3; Cantonese Chinese: Ggwing2) is a Chinese character officially meaning a "patterned window" or "as bright as the light peering from outside the window". Nowadays, The character is now rarely used on the Internet as an ideographic emoticon representing a range of moods, as it resembles a person's face. It is commonly used to express ideas or feelings such as annoyance, shock, embarrassment, awkwardness or scorn. When the character is used in conjunction with orz, OTZ or its other variants to form "囧rz", representing a person on their hands and knees (Jiong forming the face, while r and z represent arms and legs respectively) and symbolising despair or failure. Sometimes, Orz is associated with the phrase "nice guy"—that is, the concept of males being rejected for a date by girls...