January 20, 2011

Signs of "Pixelism"

David Hockney
In my opinion digital art still has a long way to go in regards to be generally accepted, but the artform has actually been around since the 1970's. The inspiration for this blogpost was an article I stumbled upon recently about David Hockney who makes digital art. 

You may even oppose to use the word "digital" as a category for art, and some would even say how can you call it art when there's no traditional canvas or paper? It's like it doesnt exist! Well it does; but on a hardrive (and it can be created for the purpose of being printed too). 

But isn't it always like that. It's pretty human that it takes time to accept and get used to new trends and directions. Many thought Monet was "crazy", splitting up beautiful lanscapes into little dots, not to mention Picasso's impressions of a human face. I wonder what the painter's in medieval Italy would say about future artists; the fresco painters who had to produce their own colors and  paints using walls and ceilings as canvases. What would their opinion be about modern painters who could buy ready paint and canvases in a store? 

To read about David Hockney's digital artworks:

In Paris, A Display From Hockney's Pixelated Period 


Read about digital art in Wikipedia: Digital art

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