I wonder how long people have been painting screens? Or what the first painting of a screen would be? Of course photography greatly influenced how we see painting, as well as how paintings were created. But screens. That's something else. Nowadays it's quite common for an artist to be painting from a screen. It isn't widely known, but much of the reason we saw an explosion of hyoeerealist works, like from Chuck Close, were due to advances in photography and printing. A large scale photo could be printed out and painted from. Now if course artists will use a screw and then zoom in to the areas they are painting for further detail. But I wonder how that connection to a screen effects the final work. Much like how paintings from life inevitably look different than those painted from photos, paintings from screens likely have a certain color sensibility, and approach as well.
In this piece I worked with a simple idea of a digital avatar of some sort, that is morphing and looking Ata flower it has found in its environment. It's funny that my swirls and blobs have become more normalized with the advent of AI image making utilities like dalle. Perhaps finally some will see what I was referring to years ago when I started painting my own reactions to digital avatars, that were also surprisingly organic to those who would view them. But the digital world isn't all hard edges and pixels. There also organic shapes and lighting. In fact I think much of our desire for pixels in video games is due to a sort of originalist approach to digital media itself.
I had a lot of friends and family send me articles about dall e and image making software, and it seems a select few are scared that this technology will somehow displace artists. I don't think that will ever be the case. Art is predicated upon luxury items that have scarcity of some sort. And even today, people still feel the desire for all sorts of handmade items. From soaps to sculptures. The need for humanness will likely go on the other direction and I can imagine hands on materials like paint and clay only getting more popular in the years to come.