From my understanding of this essay Herbert W Franke was defending computer art. He explains how computer art is young and in its early stages of development. What gives computer art its aesthetic is the incorporation of many different techniques built into one piece. This transforms an artists means of expression. In contrast to classical art this upcoming art form allows for many solutions by giving a new device to work with.
However he also talks about how computer-generated images of objects and landscapes have drawn attention over the years. This could be for positive and negative reasons. The realistic aspect of a digital image is something that is interesting to the new age of viewers. This essay is written at a time when people were used to seeing images from paintings or poor quality images. The computer has allowed photography to advance drastically. One element of digital art that is becoming more and more popular that Franke touched on in his essay is Photoshop images. The different tutorials used on this software are making images less realistic that they seem surreal. The addition of color and highlight to ordinary images has created a completely different style we now consider digital art. From reading this essay I feel it would be interesting to be apart of this transition. Unfortunately I feel I was too young and was brought up from a young age using computers. It is harder for me to appreciate the development from classical art to new and upcoming digital art. However the more I learn about art history the more I am learning to appreciate it.
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