Gregory's Server@darius is that not a failure of printing technology that it can't reproduce the painting correctly?
I guess it's because I've only really been interested in digital art, that I am so used to being able to copy things without degredation
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 @SuricrasiaOnline I like it because they describe why perfect duplicability is both an advantage AND a disadvantage @darius oh I have read this. I think I can understand but I guess I just don't "get it" in my gut @SuricrasiaOnline I didn't understand it until I started going to lots of art museums and seeing works in person that I had only seen (very good) copies of myself. And I just... understood the art on a level that I never got it on paper. Like a Miró in person, for me, is full of meaning and energy and life in a way that prints and high-resolution scans are simply not.  @SuricrasiaOnline @darius i don't think we can even *record* color accurately, much less reproduce it. i'm red-green colorblind (anomalous trichromat). this doesn't mean I can't see certain colors; it means my cones are tuned to different frequencies. i routinely am surprised by paintings i've seen reproductions of, because the capture/repro mechanisms are tuned for different eyes than mine @phooky @SuricrasiaOnline this is a great example of how reproduction necessarily flattens things. I think if we had a star trek level replicator where we could atom-by-atom copy a painting and its canvas etc etc it *might* be close enough to get 99% of that energy across to people, but... we don't, so. |
@SuricrasiaOnline I don't think it's that kind of failure. I'm not an expert and this might be sheer mysticism but there is a history in the object itself that makes the difference.
This is an excerpt from a larger essay where Everest Pipkin, a primarily digital artist, describes the advantages of digital art versus nondigital art. It gets to the unique advantages of say, a paper-based illustration, the object itself.
https://everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-environmental-issues-with-cryptoart-1128ef72e6a3
@SuricrasiaOnline I don't think it's that kind of failure. I'm not an expert and this might be sheer mysticism but there is a history in the object itself that makes the difference.
This is an excerpt from a larger essay where Everest Pipkin, a primarily digital artist, describes the advantages of digital art versus nondigital art. It gets to the unique advantages of say, a paper-based illustration, the object itself.