Re: [school-discuss] Digital Art

[William Fragakis <william@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I see this in a number of endeavors: If you weren't as miserable as I
was when learning, you aren't doing it right. I think this view is also
related to the, "they don't do X like they did it back in the day.
Today's X is rubbish." 

Music went through this same thing in the 70s and 80s when synthesizers,
sequencing and sampling became affordable and practicable. Yet, without
those innovations, entire modern genres wouldn't exist, nor would these
modern artists have the opportunity to share their "music" with us. Now,
musicians accept these tools and use them to create works previously
unimaginable. 

The traditionalists are entitled to their opinions. However, history has
demonstrated repeatedly that they might as well be standing against the
tide. And, thankfully, succeeding generations ignore them.

Regards,
William

On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 04:12 -0800, Jim JÃtte wrote:
> Wow... my daughter is a digital artist. Granted she also does
> "traditional" art. That's like saying sculpting isn't really art
> because you don't use a canvas or a brush and you get to cheat because
> you do it over again until the shape is what you want... oi!!
> 
> 
> I guess the same person doesn't think photographers are artists
> either?
> 
> 
> Where did this come from? 
> 
> 
>         
>         ______________________________________________________________
>         From: Joel Kahn <jj2kk4@xxxxxxxxx>
>         To: "schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
>         <schoolforge-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>         Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2012 7:27:08 PM
>         Subject: [school-discuss] Digital Art
>         
>         
>         You can decide how on-topic or off-topic this is....
>         
>         In an art-related Linkedin group, a war is raging between
>         those who like digital art and some really die-hard
>         machine-hating artistic traditionalists. One of the more
>         extreme Luddites posted this priceless gem:
>         
>         "'Digital art' is not 'ART' period!!! And I am sorry to say
>         this, but digital artists are not true artists. They don't go
>         through all the suffering, happiness, joy, and everything in
>         between that the real artists go through when they are
>         creating a work of art. Digital artists just play with the new
>         toy called 'computer' and for this nobody needs any talent;
>         the computer is doing their work for them."
>         
>         I have never seen anything so inspiring for digital artists. I
>         encourage everyone to spread this around as much as possible;
>         the statement really deserves to go viral big-time. I believe
>         that teachers especially should discuss this in great depth
>         with their students and with each other.
>         
>         Joel
>         
>         ###
>         To unsubscribe from the schoolforge-discuss mailing list:
>         Send an e-mail message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with no
>         subject
>         and a body of "unsubscribe schoolforge-discuss"
>         
>         
>         


###
To unsubscribe from the schoolforge-discuss mailing list:
Send an e-mail message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with no subject
and a body of "unsubscribe schoolforge-discuss"