December 6th, 2007 by Dan Beck
View of Salinas - part of Steinbeck Exhibit
Compressed View - pigment print from Digital Painting - Dan Beck 2006
In conjunction with the National Steinbeck Center and Artistas Unidos - Artist United, I am showing this work at a pretty optimum sized art print (30 x 20 inch image).
This blog announcement comes the day of the opening; but the work will stay up until February. I chose this pigment print because of the intimate size of the gallery and for what I thought would blend well with the other artists in the exhibit - Faces and Places: Salinas.
This is also a good work for being representative of Steinbeck Country - it captures the feeling of the land but by utilizing the language of digital painting and enough of the traditions of art to have been selected by the Monterey County Arts Commission for the 2007 calendar.
People in the area have seen this piece - but many, if not most, have not seen it at its proper size - and the Steinbeck setting certainly can’t hurt.
In some ways, I would have preferred to show a work which shows more of the human condition, that Steinbeck so beautifully wrote about - but there will be another time I hope.
See Also
- Compressed View - original print options for above digital art - exhibit piece is framed slightly different - special orders are possible
- Harvest Depth - original print options for work with more of a people aspect of Steinbeck country
- Artistas Unidos - Artist United - grass roots organization partnering artists with local businesses with a goal of bringing all cultures together through the arts
Relevant Tags:art print, digial art, digital painting, national steinbeck center, original prints, pigment, Salinas, Steinbeck country
May 30th, 2007 by Dan Beck
originality and sameness
Three Way Figure 1 - original digital painting -Dan Beck 2007
Once again I shall try to defy the common sense meanings of original art and continue to demonstrate that there is more to original than one might originally think.
The above piece is one of three digital paintings. Each started with a very similar background - but I chose to fill in the emptiness in three different ways - deciding that all three were good and I would treat each piece fairly differently from there.
The figure is also mostly the same in each digital painting - but differs slightly in how I chose to fix some problems with the original figure and how I chose to embellish.
Each of of these three pieces is original - digital - intentionally much the same - but each of the prints is an original print.
Therefore - even in its sameness - it is all original - but then again - I think it is!
See Also
- What Makes a Print Original? - I think this is fairly in line with my understanding and use of the terms
- What is an Original Print? - this explanation is more designed to differentiate from individually done mono prints from other types of original - etchings, lithographs, and in my case - pigment prints from original digital paintings
- Digital Painting - additional info about the process and intention by artist Dan Beck and Outhouse Studios
Relevant Tags:beck, digital painting, digital paintings, intention, original art, original digital, original prints, pigment
May 25th, 2007 by Dan Beck
original digital art - pigment prints
Original Article Black & White Vision
Original Article Colorized Vision
I find I can’t help mocking the whole concept of original art. This is obviously the same digital painting - but one has color and one doesn’t. In this case, the color wasn’t removed but added - yet they are both original.
They are also both original creations by the artist - separate files and master images. Each print is also an original because that is how they were intended - to be printed. I wouldn’t dream of hanging a monitor and it doesn’t look as good as printed at the right size.
But here again is the rub - digital doesn’t necessarily have a right size and the prints don’t have a right term. Art prints sound too much like a reproduction - giclee does as well. Pigment print I saw recently at the de Young - and as much as I like that term - it doesn’t have the power of etching or lithograph.
New mediums use a different language to create and perhaps communicate, but also require a new language to be accepted.
See Also
- Image Guide 1 to Blogsite - not only can I find previous articles by a thumbnail digital image - but so can you - - not always completely up to date but still
- More About Giclee and Pigment Prints - to my point that such technology is mostly used for reproductions albeit excellent ones
- de Young Exhibition - Guise: Recent Prints by Deborah Oropallo - though there is explanation about how these wonderful fun images were created - just “pigment prints” were used to define the actual pieces in the show
Relevant Tags:art prints, digital painting, giclee, original art, original digital art, pigment, pigment print, prints
