Mastodawn

posiputt ÖvÖ Nov 7, 2022

here's question:

what, for you as artists, is the real piece of art? is it the physical original (if there is one) or the digital reproduction?

I'm asking because I think for me, for my works, the real thing is the reproduction. I draw mostly in black, and then I scan the physical original at 2400 dpi as a bitmap (not even greyscale) to get rid of all the paper structure and such. sometimes I even do minor corrections or additions digitally.

I'm quite curious about your thoughts.

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Alton

@posiputt

I'd say that with a visual art piece where we can point to an original that was intended to carry the load, we identify that artefact with the artwork itself.

Anything else we treat as performance art. Where are Chopin's preludes? Where is Martha Graham's 'Night Journey'? Where is Coleman Hawkins's 'Body and Soul' or Hokusai's 'Wave'?

Ultimately we don't identify any of these works with any one manifestation. The 'real' art work is the shared idea we have of the art work.