About Digital painting

It started as a line. Through drawings on the walls of caves, using flint and other rudimentary tools, man showed his sensitivity and vision of the world around him . Was it a message or the beginning of dialogue? In these drawings we see the first expressions of the thoughts and sensitivities of our ancestors. From then on and over the centuries this pictorial art was mastered and continually enriched with new technical methods. The tools improved, the surfaces worked on changed, and the rainbow of colours multiplied. It evolved from the stick with hairs to the paintbrush, brushes, collages and to spray gun and electronic stylus. Rocks, canvas, metal, film, plastic, etc. were painted on. Plant sap and pigments, crushed minerals, natural ingredients and then synthetic ingredients and pigments were used. From North to South, form East to West, man searched, tried, suffered, and discovered little by little thereby enriching this art. Each era testifies and conveys with brilliance the fruit of this search and leaves behind traces of this evolution, not to impoverish but rather togive man the ability to be the objective witness of his time. Painting became the "Supreme Art" and is the reflection of the world's soul. Suddenly, the scientific and technological progress made towards the end of the century gave this artist a new tool : the computer. Once the agitation of its discovery, use, and application over with there has been a return to more reasonable views. What didn't we hear! This artist was at first curious, intrigued then wearily realised that this tool could not be ignored. A visionary and witness of his time, he learnt how it works so asto be able to master the tool. The shock was brutal "the computerised tool" was "a dream come true". That is the name the artist has given to the multitude of technical facets this machine offers him. Not so long ago, it was impossible to imagine his subtle pictorial thoughts that he can now express with this tool using colours an endless number of ways to expressthem forcefully. This work of the moment, drawn on a graphic tablet follows the artists hand precisely. he traces, enlarges, reinforces, thickens, rubs out, redraws, replaces lines and colours. Nothing escapes the "dream come true". It offers and presents the chosen drawing and can compare it to the initial drawing without losing the artists initial choice. Alternative become possible. There are many options but nevertheless the artist remains more than ever the Master of the work of Art. It is up to him to compare it to the personal vision that drives his sensitivity or his rebellion. The choice made, the work of Art finished, the "dream come true", in a final to serve, will present the artist's drawing in the size chosen by him. All that remains, then is for him to confine to memory the Master's print. The history of Art has been punctuated with hasty and conclusive condemnations that time and understanding have proved wrong. Let those dreary and nostalgic spirits be the keepers of their thoughts. The evolution of painting will surely stagnate if this new pictorial form of art is ignored. At the dawn of a new century where the methods of communication have become global, Art is getting ready for a fantastic trip beyond race, frontiers and any other restrictions. JP MEDINA

 

Jean Pierre MEDINA

 

 

 



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