POP ART BUKOWSKI.

[dadio]

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/pop- ... llett.html

[Doreen Peri]

Hey Terry... pretty cool!

How exactly did you create these? What software did you use? Were they auto-generated by the software or you colorized them yourself?

[Doreen Peri]

You told me you use Picnic or Photobucket for your digital artwork. Thanks! Sorry, I know I've asked you before what type of apps you use. My memory is getting fuzzy as I get older. I use Photoshop, myself, and I'm not familiar with those 2 apps you use.

[judih]

aha! the secrets have been revealed.

picnic is what i use - online photoshop - the free version is wonderful but the pro version is even more so.

wonderful work, dadio

[Artguy]

For one I am not trying to be antagonistic. I spent 2 years working in one of our countries best art universities who's main focus has become digital art, and many of the students have taken the art form to new levels incorporating their skill into environmental design. However I believe there are limits to what is done on these boxes that is indeed an art form. if all your doing is seeing some cool effect your computer can produce on an appropriated image then it is not art and I don't believe it has a place next to real Artists. When I curate an exhibit I am very careful about the source of photographic images that have been digitally altered. If the image has been for one inappropriately acquired and then altered at the will of the machine not the human then it does not get into the exhibit. I just think there has to be some specific rules set so the work of those that does have integral validity are not trivialized. It also raises questions of appropriation. Bukowski for example, I'm a great fan, Wharhol not so much. However to take Wharhol's work and drop different images into it I believe to be misappropriation, whether it is in the public realm or not. There is a real danger in using technology as a creative tool. I want to make it clear that it is an art making tool, but it has a built in danger of making images that already exist in it's memory. On the topic of Warhol, I think the most important thing he ever did was get punched in the nose by John Lennon. He was a master of misappropriation before the computer, simply by having his factory workers do all the work with out giving them credit or even money. So that is my morning rant. Sorry if I have stepped on any toes.

[dadio]

Thank you, Judih & Artguy.

Pop Art tool. Warhol was only just one artist to go under that umbrella. I have utilized that tool only to bring a different view of Bukowski's image. To my knowledge Warhol did not make any image of Bukowski, so using the Pop Art tool is a matter of selection and choice. I have never claimed to be anything other than that of digital artist or compared myself with "real" artists per se.