By Ankur Midha , 17 June : Just as lens men perceived the camera as a great challenge in the 19th century, the digital technology today challenges the red rag in artistic arenas. Digital technology is no longer solely associated with guided missiles or personal data registration. Just how is digital technology altering the production of art? This alteration may be subtle or profound, either by impacting traditional production or allowing novel approaches.
One view might be that artists have always been deeply involved in reshaping traditional opinion. “As we move into the 21st century, there’s no doubt that the computers could act as tools in the service of humanism, like palette knives”.
Some people hold the view that traditional media such as oils, watercolors or charcoals are the only valid medium for paintings. That Digital Painting and Drawing Media are not valid for “real” art. They view artists suspiciously; questioning their dedication when they approach computer technology considering it the “depersonalization” of the work of art.
“Snobbism in the arts is nothing new”, the history of art is marked by the influence and artistic use of technical innovations such as the making and use of tools, the introduction of oil paint, the invention of perspective, the invention of photography, film, television and video and lately the (r)evolution of computers and the electronic media. The first painting tools in history were not invented for the making of art only. A painting by Da Vinci or Vermeer is also a form of high-tech. Technology is just another brush. There are all kinds of tools used by artists for the creation of artworks and the computer has become one tool among many others, but in general, is it important for us to know if the work is digital or not? Do we react differently to a digital instrument in a concert hall or a digital recording of a musical composition?”
Painting is still about feelings and the provocation of a feeling in the mind, separate from the immediate visual response to the aesthetics of the composition affront. ‘Digital Art’ or ‘Digitization of art’ is another medium to express the experience, emotions and life of any painter with the interpretation of mixed imagery and the stepping deeper into the ‘what is’ in an attempt to show ‘what is’.
The extraction of elements at a pixel level bound together with the use of digital technology, software, hardware and the various other tools to sow together a seamless grafted thought from within the hectic of the mind. It is the overlay of images, unconnected and sometimes even alien to each other blended into abstraction to recreate a frozen moment of action onto an inanimate medium of inaction.
The beauty of a digital canvas and the color pixels lies in the creation of excited pulses within the mind of anyone who looks at these pieces without the aim of making an absolute sense of what is in front of them. The imagery flickering at lightning speed in their minds is the beauty that tickles and brings them closer towards the artistic creation.
The future will become more bright and colorful and digital art will help to make this dream come true. “History has always had an uncanny knack to repeat itself. Computers and the Internet are creating new global horizons for the arts and like Pastels, Digital Art Media is gaining the recognition it deserves as a powerful medium of artistic expression just as pastel paintings did.
This new age of art is called Hybridism. It’s also known as Fusion”, where the traditional art blends itself with the new technology to form a New Avatar which was never known to the world.
I believe art is a creative way of expressing yourself.. it may be in the form oil colors or digital pixals….
Lookin’ Fwd. for your artistic creations….