Revolution in Art
Revolution in Art
Digital technology has revolutionized many fields and perhaps no field has benefited more from digital technology than art. Computers have provided breakthroughs in several areas of art due to the special capabilities that computers provide in manipulating images, adding effects, and seamlessly generating very detail rich animation. These breakthroughs can be seen in many places. Many museums now feature pieces of art that have a large inspiration based on computer input. Canvas printing now allows these works to be produced on high quality materials that most artists prefer to use for their works. These new techniques have allowed rendering methods and levels of detail and physical precision that were virtually impossible prior to the advent of computers. Animation of life like scenes to the degree produced by some of the computer based animation studios would have been infeasible if done by hand.
Although canvas prints, computer animated movies and other digital works are the most outward facing and visible impact of computers and the digital revolution on art they are by no means the only impact. Another area of art that has been drastically impacted by computer technology is the distribution of artwork. Computer technology and the Internet allow for very wide distribution and replication of works and given the current high bandwidths these works can maintain their high resolutions when transferred digitally.