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Computers in general - the internet, the word wide web - were supposed to enhance life. There is a good argument for saying they have, but also a good argument to suggest that they've bound us all to screens and increased our obligation to communicate instantly: which is nearly always a bad idea.....
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I just wonder whether in another century or so, will anyone be painting traditionally as we understand it? I asked this question in my art group a few years ago, and the answer generally was ‘yes of course’ but I doubt it now. When you consider how the younger generation are brought up on mobile phones etc as an extension of their arm and brain, it must be or will be easy for them to whistle up digital art with apparently little effort. What will happen to the art lesson in school? It has been pointed out here that digital work removes the messy side of art, all the equipment to try different media and ideas. Schools have computers, tablets etc for other lessons so why bother with all that mess? I’m just putting the thought out there!
While I love painting and drawing, the feel of mixing paint, trying out different combinations and methods, the smell of it all, I was brought up with that and children in future may largely not be. Hope I’m not being too pessimistic, or is it just realistic?
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Paper,canvas, paint, pens pencils and imagination. These are art. The rest is just a money making scam.
While I'm at it, we seem to be edging closer to porno art and blatant sexual fantasy than any form of creative art. May be just me, but you used to find such on the inside of toilet doors in junior school.
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by Jim Morris
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Sad isn't it. I do hope you are wrong Tessa . My kids and now my grand kids have always been given good quality art materials and often sketch and paint alongside me. They enjoy it and hopefully will continue to do so. I also agree with you Jim and am not to sure if the gallery here is a good home for some of the junk on there right now...actually us girls didn't decorate inside of the school loos...well no the school i went to didn't. Plus this site hasn't got an x rating. Life drawings are quite different.
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by Sylvia Evans
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Music is heading in the same direction I'm afraid. Much of the music today is 'composed' on a computer where no musical theory or the need to actually play an instrument is required. You can even pay to see holograms or 'virtual avatars' of the dead performing 'live' in concert! That's progress that is!
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I’m happy to be dodo . Back in the nineteen sixties I went to a ideal homes exhibition and if you believe what they were forecasting we would all be living in pods and out meals would be tablet form. Several leading medical and dental specialist were predicting that within three generations our mouths would be come smaller and we would have less teeth . Well I’ve not seen much of either in the last fifty years or so . Hopefully the fad will not fully develop for many reasons , financial, ethical, more and down right stubbornness from a lot of dodos. Plod on paint on and enjoy making a mess with old fashioned paint and paper , kids love messy stuff as we know let them keep playing .
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by Paul (Dixie) Dean
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I'm not too worried about kids being seduced away from real paint by their 'puter screens and the like. It was only ever a minority who took to painting anyway, and I just think the experience is so very different that there'll always be some young people who don't want to make 'installations', and create computer-effects: not that I've any problem with those who might want to take those things up: it's all creativity, it all helps to expand minds.
Whenever I start to think that artists are a declining breed, I think of all the sales outlets/suppliers: Winsor & Newton, Daler-Rowney, Michael Harding, Vasari, Daniel Smith, Williamsburg, Golden Paints, Liquitex, A P Vallejo, Jacksons, Cass Arts, Cult Pens, Heaton-Cooper, Chromacolour UK, Atlantis, Pegasus, London Graphic Centre, Gerstaecker, Maimeri, Supreme Paint Co, Discount Art, Ken Bromleys, ProArte, SAA, Reeves - gasp - even the old Robersons is still out there, largely if not entirely wholesalers now, but still making high-end artists' products.
They may not be coining it exactly, but that little lot suggests there are still an awful lot of us.
Takes fresh breath - and I did I mention Rosemary's Brushes, AP Films, Search Press, Rublev/Natural Pigments, Old Holland ... all right, all right, I'll shut up: no need to throw things.....