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 p.3 #17 · is Photoshop ruinning an art? | |
SUBJECT TITLE= "Is PS Ruining ART"
My view:
I use "art" to be synonymous with "photography" for this post but includes whatever form it can take;
On the other hand, art is such a large part of our everyday lives, we hardly even stop to think about it. Look at at almost anything you see. Someone designed it. It is art. Does the modern woodworking tools used make an piece of wood art any less a piece of art than "hand hewing" it with an old fasioned planer? All functional design, well done, is art. So, you could say art is something that is both functional and (hopefully) aesthetically pleasing to our eyes.
I would venture that art is in a constant state of change, so nobody can really pin down what it is. The only "consistency" in art(and since the poster's title is photography as art)constant change part is a "given."
Art is subjective, and means something different to every single person on earth and even more so on FM.
Art is in essence "opinion"! Form your own opinions and be sure to sprinkle them in your criticism and or crtiique of a thread,image, composition....
Art is form and content.
Art is form and content means: All art consists of at least these these two things.
Form means (1) the elements of art, (2) the principles of design and (3) the actual, physical materials that the artist has used. PHOTOSHOP is one of hundred methods....Form, in this context, is concrete and fairly easily described - no matter which piece of art is under scrutiny.
I quote from my Art History studies days:
Suppose you've written: "One half of all art is form. Here is how Goya's The Shootings of May Third, 1808 fits in." You would then go on to provide details about how Goya used color, value, space and line (elements of art). He used balance, contrast, emphasis and proportion (principles of design). He composed the aforementioned elements and principles on canvas, using brushes and oil paints (the physical part of "form")." Thus the use of Photoshop don't you think??
It doesn't take much of a leap in imagination, though, to understand that the concepts behind "form" could be applied to any piece of art, created anywhere on earth, at any time, using any language AND ANY TOOL.
Content, now, gets a little more tricky. "Content" is idea-based and means (1) what the artist meant to portray, (2) what the artist actually did portray and (3) how we react, as individuals, to both the intended and actual messages.
Additionally, "content" includes ways in which a work was influenced at the time it was created. All of these factors, together, make up the "content" side of art ala photography.
Photography is an art of form and content, as well as interpretation by both the creator and viewer. You can certainly think of some great examples using works of art that you know and/or enjoy.
Here on FM, the posted compositions transport both the creator and viewer to a "higher" plane. It gives creative expression to life via an image. It stimulates the senses. It is an exchange between the composer and viewer.
PS is a "tool" and without tools I beieve there is no art!
Dan
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