The Art World..
The forces of globalization and new technology have affected just about every facet of American Life. New artists from around the world are dragging the art world away from its traditional origins. “High Art” descended from the eras from kings and aristocrats dealing with wealth. Recently, the upbringing of the internet and the rise of digital culture are removing any distinction is left in the art world. Due to the more wide-spread world of art, museum directors are now trying to satisfy a more broader variety of customers and different forms of entertainment which may not be in the same category as your traditional art background.
I find this to be quite interesting. One reason being, i had just done a research paper on the Technology in Art Education, which is also known as Graphic Design. This relates to this article in which i found out many ways the digital end of art and impacted the original “pencils and paints” way of art. I, myself love drawing in the old traditional way with paints and pencils.. I am always open to try different ways of learning to express art. The digital end varys with many different styles to be taught, which i think is great. I am majoring in Art Education, and was told by a teacher to expand my horizon more because in more and more schools they are deleting traditional “studio art” classes and adding more digital and computer graphic classes.
Graphic Design Dude said,
January 9, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Personally I always start from a scanned drawing when producing artwork.
reikavich said,
April 29, 2007 at 9:40 am
I am, myself, a digital graphics artist and I find that it is lamentable that they are deleting traditional “studio art” classes as I firmly believe that many of the things that can be learned in those classes cross-over and are important when doing digital art (and I myself genuinely love to do hands-on painting and drawing as well). And yes, digital art has changed much of the way in which we perceive and deal with art. Whether this is really a good or bad direction for art to move towards is something that time and society will decide but I believe that at this crossroads it is important to be open. After all, once we have the technology it is difficult to unlearn it. Might as well make the most of it.