Its all about the idea not the medium !

while reading a magazine on the web, i was attached by this article : Digital art Media, talking about how nowadays artist are using digital tools to create fine art. and how all these latest technological digital tools has opened a new wide window for artist sharing more creative ideas for media. now that i am talking about IDEAS AND MEDIA , Catharine Clark, owner director of the Catharine Clark gallery says "I’m interested in content, not media," explains,Good art is not about the medium; it’s about the idea. The artists’ ideas drive the art, not their choice of tools, technology or media. For Clark, art is content-driven, not media-driven.

And when talking about Digital art, Clark says : I describe my paintings as “combined media on canvas.” They originate as paintings created in Corel Painter (sometimes based on photographic reference); they are printed out on canvas and then have various media, such as acrylic paint and pastel, applied on to the canvas surface. I avoid using the terms “digital art,” “computer art” and “computer-generated art,” all of which imply that artistic skill is secondary to the fact that the computer was used. After all you’d never describe a Van Gogh painting an example of “oil paint-generated art!”

so we can summarize that,nowadays we're living in a digital world,everybody using computers in all fields. Media needs creative ideas: the content is very important therefor, the digital work help the artist to be more creative with using an infinite type of tools, but first the concept of the idea must be found, this is what enrich the digital art! .. the idea..

By Farah