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ARTS-LESSON-1-DIGITAL-ARTS

Digital art refers to art created or presented using digital technology, evolving from mechanical devices in the 1950s to widespread use of software like Photoshop in the 1990s. The field has been shaped by pioneers such as Frieder Nake and Vera Molnar, who utilized computers for artistic expression. Today, digital art encompasses various forms including digital photography, painting, and new media practices like net art and virtual reality.

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ARTS-LESSON-1-DIGITAL-ARTS

Digital art refers to art created or presented using digital technology, evolving from mechanical devices in the 1950s to widespread use of software like Photoshop in the 1990s. The field has been shaped by pioneers such as Frieder Nake and Vera Molnar, who utilized computers for artistic expression. Today, digital art encompasses various forms including digital photography, painting, and new media practices like net art and virtual reality.

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is a term used to

describe art that is made


or presented using
digital technology.
is a term used to
describe art that is made
or presented using
digital technology.
2 61 During

1950
artists use mechanical devices and
analogue computers to create their art pieces.
2 63 In

1952
Ben Laposky used an oscilloscope to
manipulate electronic waves from a fluorescent.
2 63 In

1952
Ben Laposky used an oscilloscope to
manipulate electronic waves from a fluorescent.
2 81
In Early

1970
And
2 91
1980
most of the first digital artists has a background in computer science or
math. Moving forward, other artists started teaching themselves how to
program rather than relying on computer programs.
2 91 Digital age started growing in the

1980
computers were affordable and easily available to most. The
evolution of digital art started.
2 1 In

1990
digital art was being used on a day-to-day basis by artists. They
used software tools such as Photoshop which took digital art to a
different level.
Art has clearly evolved and come a long
way from mechanical devices and
analogue computers. It is a lot easier to be
an artist or learn the skills. YouTube
tutorials, art classes, digital art software’s
etc. make it something everyone
passionate about it can try.
Illustrator
3ds Max
Photoshop
Flash Professional

And many more


DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY ALGORITHMIC OR PHOTO PAINTING
➢ This combines the disciplines of
➢ The artist uses a digital or FRACTALS photography and painting.
conventional camera. ➢ This is art produced The artist uses image editing and
Photographs are digitized and exclusively by mathematical paints software to go
translated to the computer manipulations. This is the so- beyond the darkroom technique to
environment where the artists called “computer generated” add further expression to
use image editing and special the image.
art.
effects software to perform
darkroom type manipulations.
DIGITAL PAINTING
DIGITAL COLLAGE ➢ 2D Digital Painting- the artist creates
2D images totally inthe computer virtual
PIXEL ART
➢ This is a technique of environment with the use of painting ➢ Created using raster
tools that emulate natural media styles.
combining many images Sometimes referred graphics software, where
from varying sources into
to as “Natural Media”. images are
➢ 3D Digital Painting- the artist uses 3D
one image. modeling and edited on the pixel level.
rendering software to essentially sculpt
in virtual space.
Frieder Nake. Born on Dec. 16, 1938, is a
mathematician, computer scientist, and pioneer
of computer art. He is best known internationally
for his contributions to the earliest
manifestations of computer art, a field of
computing that made its first public appearances
with three small exhibitions in 1965.
Frieder Nake

POLYGON DRAWINGS
George Nees (June 23, 1926-January 03, 2016)
was a German academic who was a pioneer of
computer art and generative graphics. He studied
mathematics, physics and philosophy in Erlangen
and Stuttgart and was scientific advisor at the
SEMIOSIS, International Journal of semiotics and
aesthetics.
Vera Molnar. Born January 6, 1924, is one of the
pioneers of computer and algorithmic arts.
Trained as a traditional artist, Molnar studied for
a diploma in art history and aesthetics at the
Budapest College of Fine Arts. She iterated
combinatorial images from as early as 1959. In
1968 she began working with computers, where
she began to create algorithmic paintings based
on simple geometric shapes and geometrical
Ronald Davis Born June 29, 1937, is an American
painter whose work is associated with Geometric
abstraction, Abstract Illusionism, Lyrical
Abstraction, Hard-edge painting, Shaped canvas
painting, Color field painting, and 3D Computer
Graphics. He is a veteran of nearly seventy solo
exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions.
The impact of digital technology has transformed activities
such as painting, drawing, sculpture, and music/sound art,
while new forms, such as net art, digital installation art, and
virtual reality, have become recognized artistic practices.
More generally the term digital artist is used to describe an
artist who makes use of digital technologies in the
production of art. In an expanded sense, “digital art” is a
term applied to contemporary art that uses the methods of
mass production or digital media.

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