How do artists use technology?

Answer 1

Aaron: "Technolgy has changed the way art is produced through various methods. There are specialized art programs that can produce pictures that look like as if someone painted it. Art in some respects may be easier to produce on computers. Although production is easier, sometimes the change process for people is hard. Most people don't understand how to begin or start a new painting in the newer software painting programs. In my opinion, art has changed in a good way, art on the computer is very cost effective and cheap."

Answer 2

The relationship between art and technology is quite strong when relating to design. A piece of technology is often thought up of by the inventor; its key features will be listed and all calculations will be varified. The artist's job is to take those features and design the aesthetics for the invention, taking into note the purpose it will be used and how best to design it.

Not only is art good for aesthetics, however, but also for the mathematical purposes of the invention. Having a visual plan such as blueprints drawn out, makes theorising the necessary data much easier.

However, sometimes the inventor is also the artist, and this can make life much simpler. For instance, take the works of Leonardo Da Vinci; having been an artist already, creating the physical aesthetics and blueprints of his inventions, such as the flying machine, would have been more than available to him - without those drawings, his inventions may well have been much harder to create.

On a side note, fantasy works often have a lot of unearthly pieces of technology, of which look amazing a lot of the time due to the artwork designed for said devices. Hope I helped in some way or the other.

Answer 3

Technology has changed drastically over the past few years and with it...art has evolved into a whole new vision. paintings are not only of different or more modernized images, they are also created using both modern material and equipment....hope that helps :-)

----

Graphic Design has become more easier for designers to do with Illustrator and Photoshop and has opened a new realm for them to concentrate in (Web Design). It also opened the gates to amateur designers who don't have to learn the technical skills before of screen printing and manually doing typography. Digital Art done through programs such as Painter, ArtRage, Photoshop have allowed people to paint without ever having to touch a brush, and in a way improve faster because it is faster to work with than oils and can be discarded and created new again much easier than canvas. Technology has just made alot of art techniques in the past much easier such as photo manipulation.

Answer 4

5 examples of technology in Visual Arts:

1. Light emitting diodes in pictures;
2. Pictures on mechanisms which spin and rotate;
3. New elements in paint;
4. Electro plating gold and silver to metallic sculptures;
5. Holographic images.

5 examples of technology in Music:

1. The piano, circa 1700: Technology developed to overcome constraints of hammered Dulcimer, clavichord, and harpsichord;
2. The Radio: 1890s Marconi's Radio is invented, and radios are in 80% of U.S. homes within 40 years;
3. Beatmatching: a technique invented in the late '60s was later programmed algorythmically and in 2001 Ableton Live software allowed for automatic beatmatching between 2 songs;
4. "La Vida Loca" 1999: The first #1 song made with no "real" instruments - all ProTools and synthesizers;
5. Fender releases the Telecaster in 1951, the first mainstream solid-body dual pickup guitar -- arguably the first real rock guitar.

5 examples of technology advancing Film:

1. "Roundhay Garden" 1888. Shot with the first single-lens motion picture camera;
2. "The Jazz Singer" 1927. First feature-length film with synchronized sound;
3. "Snow White" 1937. First feature-length cartoon, used an innovative multiplane camera to create a 3D effect. It was also the first movie to release a soundtrack;
4. "Tron" 1982. First feature-length movie to feature computer animation.
5. "Beauty and the Beast" 1991. First blockbuster to use Computer Animation Production System (CAPS) developed by Pixar.

Answer 5

From my own personal experience (I am an artist , an abstract painter) I can only say how technology influened my art. In 1978 I met Sam Golden, a paint Chemist , who was just opening his own company, Golden Artist Colors, in New Berlin ,NY. I was introduced by another artist who told me this manhad made a great new discovery!! Something I had been trying to find in the art stores but it didn't yet exist! What I wanted was a clear plastic thickener to add to acrylic paints. The closest thing I found was something called gloss medium(familiar now to most acrylic painters. Since Van Eyck invented oil paint(before that was tempera and fresco , and before that natural dye colors).there never had been a new invention for artists, until acrylics came along. Acrylics were invented as plastics came in to the world, first as celluliod and other early plastcs were beginnng to evolve in the industrial world, so it was for plastic paint. First used commercial for houses, boats and the like.But generally not used by artists. Before World War II, Sam told me he had made a kind of sticky goo by accident , and put it on the shelf when the War broke out and he had to focus on grey paint for the bottoms of Navy Boats , that had to be water tight, withstand severe temperatures,salt and barnacles.. the goo was a by -product of these experiments. Later after the War, paints like Duco and aluminum based oil or Alkyd paint was being used by artist Jackson Pollock, Sam was cleaning his shelves and discovered the goo!! He worked on it , on and off. By 1978 when he left the paint co. he was working for (Bocour Paints) it resurfaced again. This time, he put a new batch into a bucket and gave it to my friend, John Greifen of NYC. When John gveme the bucket, I was overjoyed!! It has thickness like oil, and although it appeared milky white in the can, he stated "Sam says it drys clear". Well, it wasn't exactly clear, but a lot closer to what I was looking for!! Since that day , now thirty years later, thousands of artists are using Golden Paints. The face of Art at the time, post Pollock, was known as "Color Field Painting" that is thinned down oils, acrylics or alkyds, like watercolors, but from 1978 on the artists like myself experimented working with Sam directly to form a whole new kind of painting. It is thick, and textural, plastic , and I discovered one can put many things into it , on top of it , and in working along with Sam, we found all kinds of new versions of the base he called acrylic gel medium. There are now many types of gel, thick , thin, stringy, slow drying, fast drying,clear, opaque, self-levelling, hard, soft, soft paste, hard paste, and pumice gels (I think there are some 22 or more now in their line of paints). All of this came from tha one can! And the freedom that allowed us artists was a very important change in the technology! And like most artistic inventions of the past , it has crept into every facet of modern society. It has affected design, art, clothes, car paints, house paints, floor paints, restoration paints, signmaking, posters, wallpaper, printing and on and on. Every maker of acrylic paint now carries a line of textured and clear acrylics. Golden is in most every art store throughout the USA and now worldwide. From the little beginnings in a barn in Sam's back yard where I used to mix the chemicals with him, it has changed the course of art! I have now thirty years of working with his paints, I have shown my paintings all over, in museums and galleries and art shows, in the USA, Canada,France, Germany, Belgium, The Czech Republic,South Africa, Korea, and my work hangs in private collections in all of those countries and Brazil, Japan, and Switzerland. Most recently I am now showing in China. Yes, the answer is, technology most definitely affects art, by way of changing, or allowing us to experiment and expand our horizons. In this case, Sam's little invention went well beyond he confines of oil painting (aside from eliminating the smell of turpentine),and well beyond the confines of acrylic paint as we knew them before, and allowed us to think freely about color , shape and handling of paint taking us into an unlimited expansive new universe. And with the addition of glitter(which I had been adding to my earliest paintings made from glue and glitter as a kid in the early1960's) he developed a line of glitter paints, in response to my requests. Sam died some years ago, and since then his son mark took over the business. The last time I sent paint samples to the Golden Paint company , I was trying to convince Mark that two of my favorite things are hologrammed glitter , and fluorescent which I add to the paint, as I have been for many years. In time I expect to see these among his list of paints, and someday these things will infiltrate most every area of society. Sam and I ,years ago worked on fluorescents, and now many street signs,(orange and green) and Fire trucks(green) are visible everywhere in the USA. everything from dog collars, to kids toys can be found in fluorescents. When I first worked with fluorescents I was in high school, using silkscreen inks, in my hippy days, to make Rock and Roll posters. When I asked Sam, he told me "Fluorescents are fugitive" , meaning they don't last. He said the action that makes paint fluoresse is the molecules are actually in motion, activated by UltraViolet light! "And that is precisely what causes their destruction! " I thought that was very cool!But he didn't! He didn't even want to make fluorescents at first. Finally he did, and along with it, something called MSA Varnish. The varnish goes on top, to slow the action, protecting the color, but the drawback was, if I wanted the painting to last for years, it had to have the varnish, but by varnishing the paintings meant sacrificing the neon effect under Black- light or UV(ultraviolet). Sadly we never finished this project. But I can say the early fluorescents have held up amazingly well, for all those years! They still with very few exceptions remain unchanged. Now Mark has ways to test the longevity of paints with new technology, he can tell if a paint will last one year or 400!! Which I find quite amazing!It is this kind of collaboration between the Chemist and the Artist that allows both of us to learn a great deal from working together. And although, the actual time we worked together was in reality a very small span, it is those tiny moments than can change the course of so many things in our lives. The exchange of ideas, was the crucial element. An artist looking for things that didn't exist, and chemists who could translate the artists imagination into reality, is the way so many inventions come into being. And the opposite is also true , art can influence technology. One only has to look at DaVinci whom thru his art, invented so many things. As artists, most of us are curious by nature, about everything in the world around us. What most people consider mundane, a truly creative mind of an artist will tear up into pieces, disassemble, reassemble and refashion in a totally new way . It is a way of thinking. When this "off the wall " artistic creativity mixes with the logical,careful, reasoning, scientific, mathematical kind of creativity we all benefit from the results.My name is Lucy Baker.

Answer 6

Technology has changed art drastically.

Programs like Photoshop and Corel can simulate realistic art techniques, and digital artists can undo mistakes as many times as they want instead of having to fret over a smudge like they would with traditional art styles. Images can also be divided into layers, which makes it easier to shift around different elements and try different filter types and compositions. The ability to integrate 3D graphics into 2D artwork also becomes a lot easier, and it enhances the quality of the work. These capabilities raise the bar for all artists, and many employers will prefer someone who can work in both digital media and traditional as opposed to just traditional.

Artists can also easily promote themselves on the internet. Sites like DeviantArt, RedBubble, and Cafepress have many designers and artists trying to get some publicity. However, the internet makes piracy very easy, and some artists have their work copied by someone else and distributed without their permission for some extra cash. The internet also makes the competition amongst artists very steep, because employers can just look for anyone on the internet that matches their needs as opposed to being limited to the selection of artists and designers in their area.

Answer 7

artists use the kind of technology that everyone else uses