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There was a time when the artist was destroyed.
The artist's most reliable gig, "write down what it looks like," was confronted by a soulless machine spitting out copied facsimiles.
A simple button press replaced the thousands of hours of practice, replaced the attention to every represented detail.
The camera dominates our media landscape even to this day. We have never been the same.

We are now at the edge of a new and significant moment in the search to define art.
This is not the first time that we have questioned how much of art arises from the product, the process, and the price.
This will not be the last time.

Dürer's "originals" are made on a printing press.
Raphael's frescos began as paper "cartoons" on paper, and were traced onto the walls.
The camera lucida and obscura techniques have been experimented with by all of the prominent artists of the past 200-400 years.
Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollok, Banksy... Digital, Drip technique, stencil.
Is it the method, or the result?
Is the artist's eye--the moment of recognition that "this expresses my vision"--enough?

The change has been slow. It has come in moments.
The moment we noticed has happened all at once.
We are moving into the moment. The displacement meets the established.
If we are incautious, it will sweep us away and leave no place to stand.
If we are inflexible, it will break us.
We are still the lookers and the dreamers. The landscape has changed.

"After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" -T.S. Elliot

Description
There was a time when the artist was destroyed.
The artist's most reliable gig, "write down what it looks like," was confronted by a soulless machine spitting out copied facsimiles.
A simple button press replaced the thousands of hours of practice, replaced the attention to every represented detail.
The camera dominates our media landscape even to this day. We have never been the same.

We are now at the edge of a new and significant moment in the search to define art.
This is not the first time that we have questioned how much of art arises from the product, the process, and the price.
This will not be the last time.

Dürer's "originals" are made on a printing press.
Raphael's frescos began as paper "cartoons" on paper, and were traced onto the walls.
The camera lucida and obscura techniques have been experimented with by all of the prominent artists of the past 200-400 years.
Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollok, Banksy... Digital, Drip technique, stencil.
Is it the method, or the result?
Is the artist's eye--the moment of recognition that "this expresses my vision"--enough?

The change has been slow. It has come in moments.
The moment we noticed has happened all at once.
We are moving into the moment. The displacement meets the established.
If we are incautious, it will sweep us away and leave no place to stand.
If we are inflexible, it will break us.
We are still the lookers and the dreamers. The landscape has changed.

"After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" -T.S. Elliot