Computer Art

Abstract Computer Art
Drawing and Painting has dramatically changed since the invention and beginning of computer art. Artists no longer need a brush, pallet or even a canvas as one computer screen is the only tool needed. This is fast becoming the way sketches and artwork are being created, with the latest technology such as touch screen computers, mobile smartphones and tablet screens making it so easy to get creative without the mess or extra items. Many art forms are now being created using a computer, for example animations no longer require the key principle of thousands of pencil and paper work but now can be digitally created on a screen with next to none drawing ability. I feel this will be the future of art across many forms and possibly bring the end of the paint brush.

Cubism

Pablo Picasso - The Guitar Player
The title Cubism was invented in the early 1900's mostly by Pablo Picasso and George Braque and the technique re-invented after huge inspiration from African and Native American art. Geometric shapes were used throughout this period to produce works of art that looked reconfigured and incomplete. The creation of Cubism changed the art world forever and developed the way artists think and create art. Although I do not feel to Cubism and later works of Picasso, I have to agree that this movement has given artists a much broader imagination and thought process.

Canaletto And The Camera Obscura

Canaletto - Sketches
Camera Obscura
Canaletto is one of the most famous and precise Venetian landscape painters in history. Evidence suggests however, that even he needed help from a very controversial invention; the camera obscura. Many believe Canaletto needed this tool which allowed him to effectively trace a landscape image and evidence such as these drawings from his sketchbook show that his work is suspiciously precise and the individual unattached pages fit perfectly together when combined. The invention of the camera obscura to some critics has ruined techniques to produce landscape art. In my opinion it was inevitable that such an invention would be produced to help guide artists to their masterpiece's, just think about the kind of technology and constructions which have been made across the years.