Art work created using computer technology is termed as
digital art. This genre of art has existed right from the
1970’s, so to speak, but it actually began to stand on its
own feet and catch the eye once computers came into
widespread use which was in the late twentieth century. This
was also the period during which modernized digital tools
like new software, and equipments of various kinds having
plenty of functions came into their own, especially in
India.
It is not necessary that digital art is always completely
generated from scratch by a computer. It is a versatile
category which ranges from works which are computer-born
like fractals to anything from another source which is
modified using computers which could be an audio or video
clip or simply a photograph.
Digital art provides great scope for special effects and
manipulation. It allows an artist to play with creations
from various fields of art and re-invent them to his liking
to suit his vision with fewer pains. Digital art, with the
help of prototyping, even embraces three dimensional art
forms like sculpture. Neography and 3D graphics which are
only two of the many sub-divisions of this vast field can do
things unimaginable until they set foot into the world.
Like every debutante, digital art too has been a topic of
debate and attracts good and bad will for itself. Those
against digital art make points like - a computer s doing an
artists work and such work can be reproduced a number of
times thus making it less valuable which is argued against
as a wrong notion, because if the artist makes it a point to
erase the image file related to his work once printed the
first time, it makes his piece unique and irreproducible.
A definite advantage of this type of art is that colours
of prints are not expected to fade for almost a century with
the printing technology of today. However, while digital
modification and creation of music and videos, printing of
photographs along with digital photography itself and also
scanning have gained acceptance and ingrained themselves
into the fabric of the art world, it is still reluctant to
tie up the more conventional methods like painting,
sketching and sculpture with it for fear of rendering the
‘medium’ worthless.
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