HOARD magazine
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Hoard magazine is an online art and culture publication that was launched December 2000. The publication features works of various genre
s and mediums such as photography
, painting
, mixed media
, film
and creative writing
. The online collection also includes essays, art analysis, and documented artist interviews. It features artists of varying levels of popular success, but places a primary focus on underground culture
artists.
Hoard magazine has documented the work of artists such as Skye Thorstenson, Rene Capone, Claudio Parentela, Jerry Wennstrom, Bill Dunlap
, Peter Max Lawrence
http://www.petermaxlawrence.com, Lisa Alisa
, John John Jesse
, Ray Caesar and Ryan Pfluger, with a list that continues to grow.
Hoard magazine is an example of the extended history and evolution of the DIY ethic
and draws its roots from self-directed art movements such as Maya Deren
's grassroots promotion of avant garde film, Ray Johnson
's mail art
, and Punk rock
. Online internet
technology and its vast global reach has provided a powerful tool for underground artists interested in sharing and promoting their art. The spirit of DIY culture in combination with the common accessibility of the internet has spawned independent and alternative media
sources such as Hoard magazine.
Genre
Genre , Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time...
s and mediums such as photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
, painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, mixed media
Mixed media
Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.There is an important distinction between "mixed-media" artworks and "multimedia art". Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct...
, film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and creative writing
Creative writing
Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and poems...
. The online collection also includes essays, art analysis, and documented artist interviews. It features artists of varying levels of popular success, but places a primary focus on underground culture
Underground art
Underground art, as with underground music and underground film, is a term that seeks to describe art forms that are aloof to the mainstream art world, are illegal, taboo, unconventional, rebellious or revolutionary...
artists.
Hoard magazine has documented the work of artists such as Skye Thorstenson, Rene Capone, Claudio Parentela, Jerry Wennstrom, Bill Dunlap
Bill Dunlap
William Dunlap may refer to:* William Dunlap , pioneer of the American theater* William Dunlap Simpson , Governor of South Carolina...
, Peter Max Lawrence
Peter Max Lawrence
Peter Max Lawrence is a contemporary media artist working within painting, video installation, sculpture, photography and drawing...
http://www.petermaxlawrence.com, Lisa Alisa
Lisa Alisa
Lisa Alisa is a female artist based in New York City.She is known for provocative graphic images of young women that bear a strong self-portrait resemblance....
, John John Jesse
John John Jesse
John John Jesse is an illustrative painter from New York City's Lower East Side in the Juxtapoz gonzo-pop vein. He often shows with artists like Esao Andrews. Jesse has cited Gustav Klimpt, Carravagio, Béla Iványi-Grünwald, and Mark Ryden as influences...
, Ray Caesar and Ryan Pfluger, with a list that continues to grow.
Hoard magazine is an example of the extended history and evolution of the DIY ethic
DIY ethic
The DIY ethic refers to the ethic of self-sufficiency through completing tasks oneself as opposed to having others who are more experienced or able complete them for one's behalf. It promotes the idea that an ordinary person can learn to do more than he or she thought was possible...
and draws its roots from self-directed art movements such as Maya Deren
Maya Deren
Maya Deren , born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s...
's grassroots promotion of avant garde film, Ray Johnson
Ray Johnson
Raymond Edward Johnson , known primarily as a collagist and correspondence artist, was a seminal figure in the history of Neo-Dada and early Pop art...
's mail art
Mail art
Mail art is a worldwide cultural movement that began in the early 1960s and involves sending visual art through the international postal system. Mail Art is also known as Postal Art or Correspondence Art...
, and Punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
. Online internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
technology and its vast global reach has provided a powerful tool for underground artists interested in sharing and promoting their art. The spirit of DIY culture in combination with the common accessibility of the internet has spawned independent and alternative media
Alternative media
Alternative media are media which provide alternative information to the mainstream media in a given context, whether the mainstream media are commercial, publicly supported, or government-owned...
sources such as Hoard magazine.