Fan artists create pieces of art based on their favorite characters using many different mediums. Fan artists use anything from painting, photography, literature, and photoshop to interpret and create their own ideas about a particular fandom. The artists, while maintaing their own ideas and understandings of their art still follow and stay within the "guidelines" of their discourse and fandom.
Lothian states, "writings should be understood as a mode of performance rather than as literary practice, that fan culture is better understood through the acts of writing than by way of completed texts". I think that this is a good look at how this discourse of fan art choses to be seen. They pride themselves in the fact that they are anonymous and that they have the freedom to chose how they interpret a certain piece and that they are "judged" based on how they execute what they are trying to get across as their idea.
So what do these "acts of writing" suggest about fan artists? What does it communicate about their ways of being and and believing in the world? Remember, Gee says that literacy practices are always ideological, so what ideologies are suggested by the literacy practice of fan fiction?
ReplyDeleteI agree that many fan artists pride themselves on anonymity so that they can post more "controversial" subject matters with their fanart. What do you think, though about the people who use their fanart as a stepping stone to careers in that area (e.g. 50 shades of Grey, artists who commission their work)? Would they rather anonymity be sacrificed for fame?
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