Dear Geoff, thank you very much for adding my artworks to your favourites and for your great comment - much appreciated!
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Joyful and Creative New Year!
Kind regards,
Rudolf
As far as the aura that Benjamin describes, well I think this is a very interesting
point of view you make and I think I need to think about it some more. Benjamin
talk about the authenticity and atmosphere in the natural and how it is lost in the mechanical if I remember coreectly but I need to go reread it. Thanks for your input
I really appreciate rhe points you have made and it has gotten me thinking about my images a little differently :-)
Geoff you make some great points about the dilemma I think the digital artist
has to deal with. I myself have always felt dissapoinment(maybe not the right word)
or at least some kind of dissapointment when I have taken the image from screen to
print. Not only is the colour misrepresented...although that is getting better and better with digital printing.
I most often use Lightjet processing which is probably
the best digital reproduction has to offer for detail but inkjet might have the edge in colour reproduction. The biggest disappointment though is not the colour misrepresentation but the flatness of the image. I am really inclined to print
in backlight transpancy which will probably give the image back its depth and I will be less dissapointed with the outcome. I'm only guessing because I have yet to try the backlight transparancy only because economically it is easier to print
and mount via paper and even then their is so many options as to what type
of paper will work best.
My reference to aura relates to the influential essay by the theorist and critic, Walter Benjamin - Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. It may have gone out of fashion now, but it was much-quoted during the days when post-modernism was ruling the roost, even though it had been written early in the twentieth century. That might make it very out of date in the age of digital reproduction, but it still makes me think. Aura is a word Benjamin uses the word to define at least one dimension of what makes art into art. A word I use myself in a similar context is presence - which I is a quality I always aspire to achieve.
I am intrigued by digital art because the means of production make presence/aura difficult to achieve. Maybe most digital artists are not even interested in achieving this quality. But your work suggests to me that you are interested in creating such a quality - whatever it is called. And the desire for Bigness seems to confirm that.
How does one create an image that demands/merits attention in an era in which image saturation seems total, especially in a medium that is the very expression of digital reproduction? Your work seems to put that question most effectively.
Hi Geoff....you make some very interesting points and I would like to take the time
to try to answer and discuss them. I am at work so I will address your comments
later. One thing I can say about the display of my work is I am always thinking
BIG. I want to find a way to make the small(pixel) and make it Big. Unfortunately
we are restricted in the digital medium by how Big we can go. The largest print I have made is 100cm X 100cm. I'll expand on this further later. What do mean by aura or should I say how do you define aura. I don't really think of an image having an aura and I don't think about aura while creating
Dear Geoff, thank you very much for your kind comment and the preference to my artwork! Compliments to your artworks - they are great!
Have nice day,
Rudolf
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Buona giornata.
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Have a happy, great and creative new year!!!!
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Joyful and Creative New Year!
Kind regards,
Rudolf
point of view you make and I think I need to think about it some more. Benjamin
talk about the authenticity and atmosphere in the natural and how it is lost in the mechanical if I remember coreectly but I need to go reread it. Thanks for your input
I really appreciate rhe points you have made and it has gotten me thinking about my images a little differently :-)
has to deal with. I myself have always felt dissapoinment(maybe not the right word)
or at least some kind of dissapointment when I have taken the image from screen to
print. Not only is the colour misrepresented...although that is getting better and better with digital printing.
the best digital reproduction has to offer for detail but inkjet might have the edge in colour reproduction. The biggest disappointment though is not the colour misrepresentation but the flatness of the image. I am really inclined to print
in backlight transpancy which will probably give the image back its depth and I will be less dissapointed with the outcome. I'm only guessing because I have yet to try the backlight transparancy only because economically it is easier to print
and mount via paper and even then their is so many options as to what type
of paper will work best.
How does one create an image that demands/merits attention in an era in which image saturation seems total, especially in a medium that is the very expression of digital reproduction? Your work seems to put that question most effectively.
to try to answer and discuss them. I am at work so I will address your comments
later. One thing I can say about the display of my work is I am always thinking
BIG. I want to find a way to make the small(pixel) and make it Big. Unfortunately
we are restricted in the digital medium by how Big we can go. The largest print I have made is 100cm X 100cm. I'll expand on this further later. What do mean by aura or should I say how do you define aura. I don't really think of an image having an aura and I don't think about aura while creating
Buona notte:
Have nice day,
Rudolf
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thank you for your friendship and the preference!
All the best, Ewa:)))
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