What is Art Mining?

What is Art Mining?


“What is art? If I knew I should take care not to reveal it. I do not seek, I find”
Pablo Picasso

This blog is the result of a compulsive and entertaining task I called “art mining”. In the absence of a better definition, I would say that it is born of my encounter with creative works on the Internet (websites, blogs, Youtube, Flickr and others). I collect, store and accumulate them in an anarchic and near-obsessive way. Artworks that for some reason I want to share with other people and that help me understand what is art for me, without further explanations or definitions, simply through the enjoyment of quality and diversity.

This is a task of exploration, gathering and selection that I feel absolutely personal. This is the manner of acting of someone who collects clippings and pastes them in folders or stores them in boxes in a drive to review and classify them, but never finishes doing so.

I have no great knowledge about art and certainly I will commit many errors. But this blog is a tool for learning. Perhaps you can help me overcome my limitations and correct the conceptual errors.

Art Mining is a place for friends. Many times I find extraordinary works on the Internet, and I decide to share them with people with whom I like to talk about art and creativity. In such cases I publish those works on my personal blog or I send my discovery by e-mail. This space has been created to broaden and deepen these relations. So, if you become a follower of this blog, don´t be shy, leave comments, write me an e-mail, get in touch with the artists, invite us to know your work.


How Art Mining works?

Every week I publish a selection of three works found on the Internet, gathered under a common topic and accompanied by some comments about the set or about each of the works.

The categories or topics I use can be the commonly accepted by the official language (painting, video-art, street-art, drawing, collage, photography). But the most interesting approach is to use the tags or labels with which these works are classified collectively on the Internet, which results in arbitrary or invented art categories such as "portraits of dogs", "artistic pots," "pins "," black and white ", etc. Of course, I do not refrain from inventing and using my own tags.

There is no curatorial criteria nor technical or professional principles that can explain why I choose a work and not other. Each selection is unique, absolute; there are no rankings nor priorities. It just comes from a necessity.


About the artists

The authors of the works are artists whose works can be seen at various sites on the Internet. There may be presented works of artists who have recently began their careers as well as works of acclaimed creators. The idea is to show the creativity of all times, places and genres, taking advantage of the tools that the Internet brings us.


About copyright

Preferably, I publish works under a Creative Commons license. That is, they can be distributed, copied and exhibited by anyone showing the credits. As for the publication of copyrighted works, whenever it´s possible, I ask for the express consent of authors.