DIGITAL PAINTING

Have you wondered just what digital paintings are?

 Let us take a look at the art works of
Vincent Van Gogh and Tadao Cern.
Vincent Van Gogh artworks

Vincent Van Gogh

Tadao Cern artworks

Tadao Cern
 Who is Vincent Willem Van Gogh?
Vincent Willem Van Gogh 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch
Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the
history of Western art.

In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860
oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life in France, where he died.

They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised
by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to
the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and
poverty.

Vincent Willem Van Gogh is a great impressionist.

Who is Tadao Cern?
Tadao Cern is a digital painter.
Tadao Cern is a Lithuanian artist who originally studied to become an architect.
In 2010, he decided to pursue a different creative path, and began to earnestly
study photography. Since then, he has created several humorous and
lighthearted photographic series whose main subjects concern the human
subject.
The ‘Blow Job’ series is a collection of surreal portraits taken as a strong
gust of wind blows back the features of the sitter. His ‘Comfort Zone’
series came about after Tadao noticed how, when one is lying on a beach,
one forgets his or her usual concerns and acts in a wholly unguarded
manner. By photographing these beachgoers in their unstaged, unbothered
positions, Tadao accurately captures their ‘comfort zones.’ Finally, in his
series, “Revealing the Truth,” Tadao reveals a new interpretation of Van
Gogh’s iconic self-portrait in these bestselling prints.
What is a digital painting?
Digital painting is a method of creating an art object
(painting) digitally and/or a technique for making digital art
in the computer. As a method of creating an art object, it
adapts traditional painting medium such as acrylic paint, oils
, ink, watercolor, etc. and applies the pigment to traditional
carriers, such as woven canvas cloth, paper, polyester etc.
by means of computer software driving industrial robotic or
office machinery (printers). As a technique, it refers to a
computer graphics software program that uses a virtual
canvas and virtual painting box of brushes, colors and other
supplies. The virtual box contains many instruments that do
not exist outside the computer, and which give a
digital artwork a different look and feel from an artwork
that is made the traditional way.
How were you able to tell the difference?

Which one do you like better?

Answer the following questions in your Art
notebook.

1. Who is the great impressionist painter?

2. Who is the digital painter?
3. Define digital painting in your own
words.