Digital Art is artistic work that is produced largely through the utilization of digital technology, especially in its creative or representation process. Dating back from the 1970's, a myriad number of nomenclature have been adopted to describe this procedure, ranging from computer art to multimedia art, just to mention a few. However, in recent times, it has been generally established by the global arts community that digital art falls into the typology of 'New Media Art'. The term 'Digital Artist' is used to describe an individual who specialises in the use of digital technology for his artistic productions.
In our ever transforming world, digital art is quickly becoming a hugely lucrative and largely recognized form of creative representation. Digital technology has not only revolutionized common place artistic practices such as painting, music, drawing and sculpture, but has also invented novel forms inclusive of Digital installation art, Virtual reality and Net art.
The employment of Digital Art in visual media dates back to the 1980's, when Andy Warhol created produced digital art utilizing a 'Commodore Amiga', at a public display of the computer that took place at Lincoln Centre, New York. An image of Debbie Harry was captured in monochrome from a video camera and digitized into a graphics program called ProPaint. The Amiga was a popular family of personal computers that was created and sold by Commodore during the 1980's and 1990's. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities. The Amiga provided a significant upgrade from 8-bit computers, such as the Commodore 64, and the platform quickly grew in popularity among computer enthusiasts.
The artwork depicted above is captioned "Untitled", and was created in 2008 by the prolific and world renowned digital artist, Wade Guyton. In it's artistic production process, he made a dexterous and articulate utilization of Epson UltraChrome inkjets prints on 84 x 587 x 1 1/2 inches (213.4 x 1491 x 3.8cm) of linen. For this painting, Guyton used his computer and the drawing tool in Microsoft Word software to create the black bars. Then he used a large inkjet printer to print that digital image onto eight linen canvas panels. His printer was designed to print on paper, not on wide pieces of canvas, so each piece of canvas has to be folded in half to fit through the printer. When one side was printed, Guyton turned the canvas over and printed the same image on the other side. At its full scale, after going through the printer sixteen times, this artwork had been transformed from an image on a small computer screen to an enormous painting that is almost 49 feet wide and 7 feet high! This painting sold for $2.4 million at Christie's, New York in 2013.
Another notable work by this unique artist is the "Untitled (Fire, Red/Black U)" (2005), which sold for a whooping sum of $3.525 million at Christie's, New York in 2014.
Art enthusiast's worldwide applaud Wade Guyton for his rare, innovative and extremely original artistic pedigree. He is a force to be reckoned with in the global art community and truly...'An Icon of Art' to be emulated upon by upcoming aspiring artists across the continent.
Keep up with the good work Wade, Salutations!
Photo credits: www.whitney.org
Photo credits: www.whitney.org
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