The biggest myth about Digital Art: The sequence leading to the creation of the painting Time Persistence by Daniel Heller
The Biggest Myth: Digital Art is not “Real Art”
The biggest myth about digital art is that digital art is not real art. I would love to know what the people who make this claim think “Real Art” is? Of course, for each person real art means something different. As stated in another article on this blog “art has no credible definition” so the idea that there is something out there that can be called “Real Art” is even less credible.
One possible definition
Anything one creates is “Real Art”.
The medium, the style or genre do not make a difference. It does not matter if the piece was created by applying oil paint to a canvas, by drawing with pencil or charcoal on paper, or by using a stylus on a tablet to create a digital file in the computer.
A concrete example
The following artwork just below has two versions. On the left, “Time persistence” (the digital version) and to the right of it “Time persistence” (the oil painting version). The digital version was created first, followed by the oil version. Each one is powerful in its’ own way, a fact made possible by the medium used. Things that were possible to achieve in digital, were not feasible in the oil version, and vice versa.
Each one is “Real Art” even though the creation method was different.
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