Post #206280 by Tipsy McStagger on Sat, Jan 7, 2006 5:39 PM

....like the pop artists of the 60's and all other art movements that sought to push the limits of art and to broaden our horizons to newer possibilites in art, so too, the digital age will usher in yet another expansion of artistic possibilites, challenging us all and pushing us to yet again, open our minds to art in a technological age.......

in answer to hanford and foamy, i belive that the reason most folks feel so strongly about traditional art mediums as opposed to the newer digital art, is for the very reason we create it....we're human. traditional art reflects the "hands-on" applications of the artist.....we can see the brush strokes, see the chisel marks and feel all texture in a work of art.....you get none of this from a digital work of art and I think that sensing a human quality in something made by hand is just more appealing to folks.....it doesn't mean that digital is not art, just that the overall social concience has yet to warm up to the idea.....it probably will in time, just like people eventually warmed up to the impressionists, the dadaists, the pop artists, etc.......remember, there was a time when all new forms of art were looked at with skeptisizm and scrutiny both by acadamia as well as the general public......welcome to the new renaisiance......