I am 72 years old retired university professor from India I was fond of painting from childhood. I joined art school at Tagores university in 1951 but I was shifted to graduate school due to family compulsions. I retired in 1994. Towards the end of my academic career I revived my interest in art by playing with elementary graphics software on home PC. From 1996 I started saving simple compositions. Gradually I have improved my use of digital tools and created some 500 digital paintings. BIOMUSINGS OF THE ARTIST
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For someone who had close encounters with fine art at a young age, coming back to painting on full time basis is an enjoyable homecoming. Working with mouse in front of PC monitor is not the same thing as working with brush on canvas and physically mixing and applying colors. After initial trials and hesitations it was surprising to discover that digital medium of painting is no barrier to giving shape to images and ideas.
The artistic quality is a unique combination of forms, colors, lines, design, rhythm and composition through which an artist gives shape to his/her visions. This quality is achievable in digital medium also. I believe, art is not in the medium or tools; it is in the mind and heart if it there, it will show. Those with artistic sense will judge the appeal of artists vision, not worry what medium or tool has been used.
I initially paint my own compositions with Painter-Classic/Painter7 and then refine work in Fotopaint and Photoshop. I work in 2D medium only. I do not use any scanned images or photographs to start my works. I do use effects available in the software. Some images take shape spontaneously in a few sittings while others take a lot of labour and time.
As the artist and philosopher Larry Bloch said, "the artist chooses the media and the goal of every artist is to become fluent enough with the media to transcend it. At some point you pass from playing the piano to playing music." An art critic, Jarvis, says in defense of digital art, Art is not about the tools used to make it; but in the organization of color, line, form, composition, rhythm and the interplay of all these in support of the subject matter or intent of the work itself. These are the basic and well-established tenets of visual art; as fundamental to digital artwork as to the cave paintings.
In some respects, the digital medium is more varied and flexible. A variety of treatments and effects can be created (or altered) much more easily on the digital canvas than on a physical canvas. Maintaining originality and artistic quality in digital art requires controlled or disciplined use of software tools. Or, as Pygoya will say, by going beyond the limits of software. Flexibility can also mislead to arbitrariness that peeps through the work. In fact digital medium gives greater power of creation and aesthetic refinement than the conventional art techniques. It gives greater freedom, greater flexibility, greater variety and greater depth. I tend to agree with a number of digital artists who have expressed spontaneity, pleasure, emotive appeal and compactness in working with digital medium.
There is one critical difference. Since digital creations (originals) exist in computers digital memory, the physical products are necessarily prints. This gives greater choice in producing the physical output choice of technology, choice of size, choice of numbers, choice of material, choice of texture, and even choice of variations in colour. The art lover can even interactively rework the output to ones choice. But these conditions associated with digital fine art cut deeply into authenticity, exclusiveness and value of digital art works in the conventional art market.
I like to share my works widely with artists and art-lovers. I look forward to comments and suggestions. Digital medium is ideally suited for worldwide sharing and exposure on the Internet. One does not depend upon spatially limited locations of exhibitions and galleries for exposure. For the same reason digital fine art has been ignored and even despised by the mainstream conventional art circles (magazines, galleries, collectors and critics). Digital medium breaks free from exclusive club of art appreciation and spills into the arena of popular cyber culture.
E-MAIL: info@vijaybhai-digitalvisions.com
URL: http://www.vijaybhai-digitalvisions.com
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For someone who had close encounters with fine art at a young age, coming back to painting on full time basis is an enjoyable homecoming. Working with mouse in front of PC monitor is not the same thing as working with brush on canvas and physically mixing and applying colors. After initial trials and hesitations it was surprising to discover that digital medium of painting is no barrier to giving shape to images and ideas.
The artistic quality is a unique combination of forms, colors, lines, design, rhythm and composition through which an artist gives shape to his/her visions. This quality is achievable in digital medium also. I believe, art is not in the medium or tools; it is in the mind and heart if it there, it will show. Those with artistic sense will judge the appeal of artists vision, not worry what medium or tool has been used.
I initially paint my own compositions with Painter-Classic/Painter7 and then refine work in Fotopaint and Photoshop. I work in 2D medium only. I do not use any scanned images or photographs to start my works. I do use effects available in the software. Some images take shape spontaneously in a few sittings while others take a lot of labour and time.
As the artist and philosopher Larry Bloch said, "the artist chooses the media and the goal of every artist is to become fluent enough with the media to transcend it. At some point you pass from playing the piano to playing music." An art critic, Jarvis, says in defense of digital art, Art is not about the tools used to make it; but in the organization of color, line, form, composition, rhythm and the interplay of all these in support of the subject matter or intent of the work itself. These are the basic and well-established tenets of visual art; as fundamental to digital artwork as to the cave paintings.
In some respects, the digital medium is more varied and flexible. A variety of treatments and effects can be created (or altered) much more easily on the digital canvas than on a physical canvas. Maintaining originality and artistic quality in digital art requires controlled or disciplined use of software tools. Or, as Pygoya will say, by going beyond the limits of software. Flexibility can also mislead to arbitrariness that peeps through the work. In fact digital medium gives greater power of creation and aesthetic refinement than the conventional art techniques. It gives greater freedom, greater flexibility, greater variety and greater depth. I tend to agree with a number of digital artists who have expressed spontaneity, pleasure, emotive appeal and compactness in working with digital medium.
There is one critical difference. Since digital creations (originals) exist in computers digital memory, the physical products are necessarily prints. This gives greater choice in producing the physical output choice of technology, choice of size, choice of numbers, choice of material, choice of texture, and even choice of variations in colour. The art lover can even interactively rework the output to ones choice. But these conditions associated with digital fine art cut deeply into authenticity, exclusiveness and value of digital art works in the conventional art market.
I like to share my works widely with artists and art-lovers. I look forward to comments and suggestions. Digital medium is ideally suited for worldwide sharing and exposure on the Internet. One does not depend upon spatially limited locations of exhibitions and galleries for exposure. For the same reason digital fine art has been ignored and even despised by the mainstream conventional art circles (magazines, galleries, collectors and critics). Digital medium breaks free from exclusive club of art appreciation and spills into the arena of popular cyber culture.
E-MAIL: info@vijaybhai-digitalvisions.com
URL: http://www.vijaybhai-digitalvisions.com
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