Saturday, 30 May 2009
Digital Art - Is there a place for it?
Last night I came across two examples of digital art that I had produced some time ago. Both flowers were photographed in my garden with a close-up lens and then manipulated in Adobe Photoshop to produce the digital paintings. It was my first attempt at this, but I quite like them, Others may not. Some times digital manipulation can be over done, but I'd still be interested to hear your opinion.
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I, too, love playing with photos in Photoshop. Is it art? It's an art form, and like with all art, there is good art and bad art and mediocre art but we can leave all that up to the critics and just enjoy ourselves. I particularly like your poppy image--the tones and textures. Coincidentally, you can see a rather over-the-top digicollage over at my décolleté blog today, if you feel like it.
ReplyDeleteThese look really cool! Why not call it art?! Photography is considered art isn't it? As is digital art! Beautiful!! :) Silke
ReplyDeleteI have no problem with that... they're pretty cool, although flowers may be a jumping off point into the digitized medium, can't wait to see some other subject matter digitally enhanced, like tombstones or cannibal trees ??? If you go way back in my back posts last fall I was playing around with a few enhanced images or montages... oh, yes, I'm still groaning from your "tyred" and "wheely"...
ReplyDeleteJ'aime beaucoup la rouge... et puis je vais te dire... digital ou pas, qu'est-ce qui compte dans une photographie ou peinture ? Le plaisir à la faire, à la regarder... ! J'aime beaucoup pour ma part ! En plus je pense que tu as dû beaucoup t'amuser à faire ce genre de travail !
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Ciao Laurie !
now see.. call me a purest or whatever other word there is, but to me, if you want a painting.. paint a painting.. if you want a photo, take a photo.
ReplyDeleteWhy make a photo look like a painting?... I guess the answer is; because you can... lol
For the last several years I've worked almost exclusively with digital collages and find the learning curve as steep as any artist media. Any child (and I love children's art) can paint a picture or take a photo but to master any technique while maintaining that spontaneity is what becomes fine art. I love your examples!
ReplyDeleteManipulating in PS is a magnificently satisfying instantaneously gratifying form of expression. I use it to work out designs for my tiles and to set the mood on photos I've taken... For instance, I've always seen the world the way Monet and other Impressionist artists do, with a glazed stare. I can show others the way I see a scene in my mind. If they were to manipulate the same photo, it would probably come out quite differently. So it is a legitimate form of self expression, kind of like interpreting a Rorschach test. It's all in the eye of the beholder, and thanks to PS, we all can express it without having to spend decades practicing in multiple disciplines.
ReplyDeleteMany, probably including myself, don't really see it as a legitimate art form in itself. Maybe seen as lazy and pretentious… but maybe that attitude is likewise.
That said, digital manipulation certainly is a legitimate form of self-expression, and an incredible tool for design.
David
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