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I call myself Diputs, I came across this site one day while searching for some extremely obscure information about Vladimir Lenin on google. After observing it for about 3 months I came to the conclusion that I might have found the best website on the planet, so I decided to finally make an account to participate.

My main hobby is drawing, my main wish is to keep improving at it, but I am still unsure if I should pursue the goal of eventually being skilled enough to commodify it for the sake of income.

In a general sense I am interested in all art forms, be they stories, paintings, music, architecture and so on. Ever since Marxism gave me a holistic framework for understanding the world around me this interest only grew, although now I feel like I am forever cursed to be overly analytic of things that others would find uninteresting. I have a particular soft spot for socialist and socialist-adjacent music, art from the Soviet Union, particular video games and Steins;Gate.

My eternal wish would be to find a time-machine to transport me to the timeline where the USSR successfully united the whole planet. ussr-cry

I've got 2 questions, firstly, is there an unspoken agreement as to how frequently one can post in a given community?

Secondly, are posters allowed to post their own drawings in the art community? If so, is there an unspoken agreement as to how skilled one must be to do so?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What is it about art that consistently holds your interest?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I would say it is the beauty of creativity itself, many species on the planet have also developed higher cognition and employ limited forms of creativity for survival or even recreational purposes, but humanity is unique in its ability and drive to manifest creativity into diverse and complex forms. Some forms can be as immaterial as sound waves or as long lasting as architectural design, the human drive for creation will always persist. While art is the culmination of a person's ideas, skills, innumerable experiences and creativity the results are also never constrained to be representative of such grandness, a canvas of abstract colors is as valid of an art piece as a page of simple sketches, a portrait painted in a realistic style or handprints on a wall. I would say it is as close of a representation of "soul" as one can get.

One of the reasons I got radicalized was because of how antithetical art is to the conditions imposed by the capitalist mode of production.