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"The proposal"
"Digital Illustration" by David Ho
Term: "The Eye of the Beholder" = Perception through sight and thought.
The Importance of Abstraction
Art can assume any form. Whether it is realism, surrealism, cubism, or an abstraction - it is Art. The different forms artists use to express themselves all center around the same concept. Take something and create a representation of it on canvas, paper, a sidewalk, in a sculpture, woven into a tapestry, etc, etc. That "something" can be a physical object, like a pear, a tree, a person. It can also be something that is NOT a physical object, but an intangible concept, such as Beauty, Love, Discomfort, or Freedom.
People have been creating abstract art since people have existed, but there are varying "levels" of abstraction. Depending on the level of abstraction, the artist has to find more creative ways of expressing that exact concept. For example, in humans' early history cave dwellers drew scenes of hunting and of their successful bounty. More modern painters, such as Jackson Pollock, expressed emotions and pure concepts. Pollock actually makes a great example because his work tended to center around the concept of ‘order within chaos.’ The concept of victory or success in hunting seems easier to express than the notion of orderly chaos. With more involved "subjects", the form of expression itself has to become flexible.
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Aesthetics Defined
Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy* dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty.
*Philosophy: The pursuit of wisdom.
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"Chess"
Art by Döm
The 'Yeah, Yeah' Revolution
Dada Movement artists were those whose aesthetics challenged the traditional art academy and pushed the envelope of "art." Dadaist (or neo-dadas) philosophy was deliberately negative. It was anti-establishment, anti-art, even anti-social in that it railed against the bourgeois society and violence. Their message ultimately led us to redefining art, its whole concept, and that the appreciation of art depends on each of our personal tastes and reactions.
What is Dada? The first major anti-art movement, Dada was a revolt against the culture and values which - it was believed - had caused and supported the carnage of The First World War (1914-18). It quickly developed into an anarchistic anti-art movement whose aim was to subvert and undermine the value system of the ruling establishment which had allowed the war to happen, including the arts establishment which they viewed as inextricably linked to the discredited socio-political status quo. Erupting simultaneously in 1916, in Europe and America, its leaders were typically very young, in their early twenties, and most had "opted out", avoiding conscription in the shelter of neutral cities such as New York, Zurich and Barcelona.
As an anti-art pressure-group, it resorted to outrageous tactics to attack the established traditions of art, employing a barrage of demonstrations and manifestos, as well as exhibitions of absurdist art deliberately designed to scandalize and shock both the authorities and the general public. Centers of public Dada activities were usually small and intimate. Ironically, despite its nihilistic mission, Dada led to the emergence and refinement of several important innovations in fine art, including collage and photo-montage, and went on to influence several later modern art movements, such as Surrealism and Pop-Art, as well as contemporary art styles like Neo-Dada and several mid- 20th century art forms, such as Installation and Performance.
Probably one of the most famous figures influenced by Neo-Dada is Andy Warhol, whose factory events and paintings of soup cans recall Neo-Dada's adoration of pop imagery.
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What the Dadaists Contributed
Collage
Photomontage
Assemblage
Readymades
Working With Ready Made Art
The urinal Marcel Duchamp (pioneer Dada Movement Artist) used as art was a controversial anonymous entry into the New York Armory Art Show back in 1913. It was a "ready made" porcelain fixture from the men's room which he entitled Fountain, signing it "R. Mutt." The whole purpose of the exercise was to stretch the definition of art to the utmost and see what happened. Well, even the most liberal of the selection committee, while perhaps as fascinated as they were perplexed by the audacity of the entry, nonetheless rejected it, but not before Duchamp (who was also a member of the committee) and others had their chance to argue its validity as a piece of art and no doubt the very definition of art itself.
Picasso, later welded bicycle handlebars to a metal bicycle seat, which he had cast in bronze. He called it Bull's Head. Ever since then sculptors especially, have been fastening together various and sundry flotsam and jetsam of society or (in extreme cases) merely "selecting" individual items, which they declare to be art. As I implied before, it's not the object itself that is art, but the "object lesson," the idea that it IS art, the object simply being an illustration used to support that idea. Taken out of its usual context, placed on a pedestal or upon a sterile, white, gallery wall, and given a clever titled of from one to one hundred words, the object or objects take on a new existence given them by their creator. Think about it this way. Paint is not art. Stone is not art. Urinals are not art. However, taking any of the above and changing them in some way, sometimes ever so slightly as with the urinal (it was laid on its back rather than hung on the wall) isolating it with a frame or pedestal, giving it a title, and the result is art. It may not always be "good" art, but it's nonetheless art, especially if the artist is using it to help say something important.
Source: Jim Lane - Humanities Web Organization
Fuel for Conversation or What I Like to Call TALK IT UP!
Computer programs have been artfully designed and crafted for human consumption. These programs aid in communication, organization, and expression. They are in essence “Ready-Made” constructs that serve multiple purposes based on human preferences. Artists make art from all things, in all places, all of the time. One could easily argue that to use computer programs to create art is simply a natural course of events. It is not “lazy art” or any less significant than any other form of art. It is the message conveyed that is important. -- M.
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The avant-garde artist “Marches to the front lines of a battle for more progressive art." ::: Francis Naumann :::
"Covet"
Ryan Hartsell
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Submitted: Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Comment: Let me put it this way...I think it's part of an artist's talent to make himself known and sometimes you have to take a step backward to propel faster into the future.
In my case I started co-creating paintings with Pal Sarkozy, a long time friend for over 30 years long before his son become president of France. I proposed that we scan one of his traditional made drawings and combine it with my digital universe. This co-production we called Digital Fine Art and while I'm writing this we have our 8th exposition, today at the Espace Cardin in Paris. Pierre Cardin Art Spectacle
I believe it is one way of breaking down the barrier that many people have [about digital art] especially those that are of the older generation, having in their minds the word "digital" does not combine well with art. You can have a look at what we do together here:
A painting is a painting no matter how it's done.
Dear Werner, how right you are! Now, if we could only get the masses to join us in this understanding. Congratulations on the Cardin Art Spectacle. Please, continue to share your perspective. -- M
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Submitted: Monday, 26 april, 2010
Comment: Good interview Don. BUT what caught my eye was the sidebar wording: "The Museum of Computer Art (aka. MOCA) is the only digital art/web-museum of its kind. We are proudly dedicated to the presentation and preservation of all things digital art; Displays on MOCA are cultivated with the purpose of promoting and protecting the blossoming digital arts movement.
The museum is not your typical art community website. At MOCA the goals are to educate and motivate through visual exploration and resources, keeping current on today's art trends and needs. At the core of the museum is a secure and comprehensive array of magnificent art images having been protected and showcased now for nearly 20 years."
My Opinion: This should be on your home page as an explanation of what the whole thing is about.
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This page posted 3 May 2010
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