| | | | | traditional art to music. |
| The controversy over digital art remains as a | | | | Can you then explain what this gentleman is |
| contention between traditional artists and digital | | | | playing? Or maybe tell him his piano work is a |
| artists web-wide. | | | | mere derivative, or not real art because there is |
| When speaking of digital art, I refer to art which | | | | nought but a recording left after he has |
| is painted stroke by stroke in a program such as | | | | performed, and oh my, the recording is a mere |
| Artrage or Corel Painter, and not a cloning | | | | digital and cannot be considered art, and lo and |
| program which I don't consider original art. There | | | | behold, it doesn't smell. I love playing devil's |
| is a massive difference between the two, and | | | | advocate even against myself, and did, and am |
| that is a valid point I feel the puritanical traditional | | | | playing that very role in order to arrive at these |
| artists need to be able to see in action, or even | | | | conclusions. |
| try for themselves before they can legitimately | | | | Shall we move on to writers? MS word? That's |
| state that digital art is not art. | | | | digital. Ouch. Sorry. Singers who once the huge |
| What are the main reasons given against digital | | | | high C is sung are left without an original????? I |
| art? | | | | think you get the idea. |
| 1. There is no original. | | | | If not, it's your choice to remian in what I see as |
| 2. There is heart and soul in the traditional work | | | | a closet with your blinkers on. All of this is my |
| which is created by a human hand. | | | | own opinions and not meant or intended to |
| Before I get deeper into my own opinion on this | | | | convince you, which I couldn't be bothered to |
| matter, I wish to state that my first love is | | | | waste the time with. I had enough problems |
| traditional art, but not for the reasons other's | | | | convincing myself until pure logic, humility, and a |
| give. I love traditional art just for the love of the | | | | total lack of prejudice forced me to see reason. |
| mess, smell and feel. I'm also developing an allergy | | | | There more I think about it, the more digital art is |
| to some of the products which are forcing me to | | | | closer to the other art forms than traditional art. |
| study the digital realm in depth and ask myself | | | | After completion there is nothing left except a |
| the same question about digital art. Is it art? | | | | digital copy of the work perfomed, or a recording |
| When I open Corel Painter or Artrage, I am faced | | | | as such. |
| with a blank canvas, and from there I paint | | | | Does that make tradition art divine? No, although |
| stroke by stroke gradually building up my | | | | on many forums the traditionalists who would |
| underpainting, getting in all the darks and lights | | | | never paint digitally [their words, not mine] speak |
| before I lay on more paint to bring the work | | | | of their traditional art as if it was the holy grail |
| closer to the finished product. After a time, I | | | | and yet would do anything to sell a Digital print of |
| forget I am sitting at a Cintiq with a graphic pen | | | | said work. |
| and am totally immersed in my Painting. Time is | | | | The one thing I can say is that despite all the |
| lost. My brain can no longer feel a difference | | | | traditional art training I have had, and still |
| between digital or traditional because my entire | | | | undertake, the very first time I sat in front of a |
| focus is switched from mechanics to heart and | | | | digital canvas and tried to paint was a total and |
| soul. | | | | absolute disaster. It took me about 5 years to |
| The description above equally applies to traditional | | | | learn how to apply all my traditional skills to the |
| art except my original digital file is immediately | | | | digital world, and that was a long 5 years and still |
| printed out at full size, then backed up and it is | | | | going. I'm at a point now where I love to combine |
| MY original. Please do not tell me there is no heart, | | | | the two worlds, loving each of them. |
| soul, or human hand lacking in digital painting. | | | | To me, both digital and traditional art are most |
| It took a lot of thought to come to the | | | | certainly art. Neither worth more than the other in |
| conclusions I have regarding digital art. I didn't | | | | the heart and soul of the creator. Both deserve |
| arrive here by some miracle, but by deep and | | | | the recognition for their hard earned efforts. |
| serious introspection and the need to leave behind | | | | And as the day draws to a close, I shall forever |
| any pretence. | | | | love traditional art, I just don't worship it, or |
| My mind meandered to singers, dancers, | | | | believe that it should be idolized or worshipped at |
| composers, and writers. | | | | the expense of other forms of art. For myself, |
| Firstly, lets take the almighty composer | | | | the outcome and emotional feeling I gain from |
| Beethoven. His final performance was a failed | | | | viewing another's art no matter how it was |
| attempt to play his own artwork Piano Concerto | | | | created is what means the most. At the end of |
| #5, otherwise known as the Emporer. | | | | the day, when all is said and done, that is all that |
| That very final performance was the very last | | | | counts : the effect on the viewer. |
| Original of Beethoven's works if we compare | | | | |