Digital Art : Traditional Vs. Traditional Art

When cavemen were around, they used art as a way to record their huntings and stories. As the world became more civilized, art became a valued part of a sophisticated society. The early 20th century believed art should reflect only beauty. However, people experienced traumatic events like World War II, and 9/11 and artists took these experiences creating art that was drastically different from the beautiful meadow fields. Ever since then, art has become more provocative leading to debates on whether some contemporary art today is art. Although many people dislike contemporary art, controversy exists because art reflects current culture and our culture has controversial events and every person has a different has a perspective about it.

Art, according to Webster's Dictionary, is a human skill of expression of other objects by painting, drawing, and sculpture. People have used art as a form of expression for a long time. From the Mesopotamian era to the Classical Greeks and the present. Art is expressed in many different ways and styles, and is rapidly changing, one style replacing another. Impressionism and Cubism broke away from the traditional style of painting. They were both looking for a new way to express everyday life. Time is an important tool that is used in Cubism as well as Impressionism. This element is expressed in Claude Monet's Sunrise and Pablo Picasso's Man with a Violin in different ways.

Digital graphics are in their own way an art form, digitally constructed to create phenomenal images. However, you need to have some sort of artistic ability combined with a suitable computer system before you can design the perfect graphic.

Art in general is a form of expression. Individuals use art to express emotions, passion, or make a statement. Society can have an impact on how an artist chooses to express his or her sentiments. The beauty of it all is that interpretation is what makes art so unique. The same piece of art can mean so many different things due to who is looking at it. Just like everything else, art changes with time. There has been different eras in art that have impacted society as we know it.

Art has been much more than just a hobby or a way of expressing ones feelings, it was long before there was any proof of a verbal language; art was a key form of communication. Artists create art to communicate ideas, thoughts, or feelings. They use a variety of methods such as painting, sculpting, or illustration. Also an assortment of medians, including oils, watercolors, acrylics, pastels, pencils, pen and ink, plaster, clay, and computers. Artists' works may be realistic, stylized, or abstract and may depict objects, people, nature, or events. Art today is the key form of the world around us, from advertisement too architecture,

Art by its nature is a subject of the philosophical, social, economic, political or religious context surrounding its creator. More often than not, a work of art addresses a specific topic or somewhat revolves around a particular person. Therefore, it is impossible to separate the context of a piece of painting, either historical or cultural, to its intrinsic value or the artwork's meaning. On the other hand, different cultures and time utilized specific conventions that govern the representation of objects of creativity. This essay highlights various pieces of art and their relationship to particular cultural, political, economic, or social settings. Moreover, it pinpoints how different times influence art presentation.

On buzzfeed.com, a quiz titled “Modern Art or Toddler’s Art?” pokes fun at contemporary art by presenting multiple images in pairs and you guess whether it’s a modern artwork or a painting by a toddler. People, including David, conclude that contemporary paintings aren’t art by comparing paintings like Rothko, Jackson Pollack’s Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) and Piet Mondrian’s Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red to paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Caravaggio. If paintings don’t appear to the ideas people have of art then it isn’t art. However, art is no longer what it was five hundred years ago. The masterpiece Judith Beheading Holofernes from 1599 by Caravaggio illustrates the Biblical story of Judith who saved her people by beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes (Caravaggio). Whereas, The Night Watch from 1642 by Rembrandt was commissioned by Captain Barining Cocq (rembrandtpainting.net) and Ruben’s Saint George Battles the Dragon painted between 1605 was commissioned for the Church of San Ambrosia in Genoa according to the Museo Nacional del Prado’s website. These paintings were created to commemorate a significant event or people and in the effect of commissions. As The Art Story states, “modern art represents an evolving set of ideas among a number of painters, sculptors, writers, and performers who - both individually and collectively - sought new approaches to art making.” Artists producing modern

Early computer art stemmed from an unlikely place and as the computer technology advanced, minimized, and became affordable, the computer turned into the most important invention of the modern age and has been implemented in almost every aspect of human life. Like video art, computer art started small and progressed with the technology and now is a tool used for many digital mediums.

Art has been a major outlet for many artist around the world making masterpieces to represent what they see in the world. As generations pass, and we don’t talk about the past art is the connection to remind us of what once was. Visual art helps us connect to the past by using different art forms to show historical events and cultural beliefs/ trends.

Throughout the first art periods there has been very significant changes as new techniques and variations began to develop.The two first art periods I will be describing are Egyptian and Early Archaic.Ancient Egypt began from 3100 BCE to 30 BCE.Some features of ancient egyptian art include Frontal eye, V-shaped torso and Hierarchic scale. The early egyptians had limited color, their sculpture were connected together, and left foot was always in front of the right. The Early Archaic period lasted from 650 to 480 BCE. Some significant features of this period included geometric figures and the popular “Archaic Smile” This period showed a great change by showing emotions and were more detailed than the Early Egyptian styled

Since the beginning of time, art has shaped and influenced everyday lives. Basic means of painting from the Renaissance has blossomed into being used for surrealism, De Stjl, and pop art, whereas when it was just simply used for landscapes. The World Wars (1914-1945), the Contemporary Times (1945 to now), and the Renaissance and Reformation (1300-1650) are some example of time periods that had major impacts on what we know as art today as art.

Throughout the ages art has seemingly been a way for people to expand their minds and unleash creativity while also presenting important ideas. Forms of art that were first created by people known as the Cro-Magnons are still looked at and interpreted by people today.

Art can be interpreted in many ways just not painting for an example people that can play sports and be really good at is considered art ,but why can’t video games be considered art. Video games have people or better say artist have to draw the characters and everything only difference they draw it on computers. Many would oppose that video games don't help in any way just make us more stupider waste of time and make us into zombies that's not right. A study proved that it actually helps more than we think.The other side would oppose in many ways saying video game is not art it’s a waste of

Computer art usually refers to any form of graphic art or digital imagery that was created with the aid of a computer. Computer art which curators today call digital art or new media art started to emerge in the 1950 and focused mainly on geometric shapes in random combinations. Many critics at the time questioned whether computer art could in fact be called art. Critics wondered whether computer art could still convey concepts of “meaning”, “expression”, and “form”.

Human beings make art. We do this for many reasons and with whatever tools that is available to us. Thirty thousand years ago, cavemen were not making works of art and there were no artists. They were crafting flints into spear point, scrapers, and knives, not as art, to use in order to survive. People will find wall painting appealing to the eye and to the touch. However, wall painting must have seemed as important as these tools in terms of everyday survive, not for visual pleasure.