From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!pag
Newsgroups: net.graphics
Title: My 2 cents on Art and CG
Article-I.D.: hao.433
Posted: Sat Feb 12 19:23:37 1983
Received: Tue Feb 15 04:44:27 1983

Art, by the nature of the beast, is in the eyes of the beholder.
Now with that statement out of the way, here is one person's admittedly
colored perceptions: computer graphics is not art.  Why?  A digression.

In the early 70's, a very good friend of mine developed a passionate
liking for the works of M.C. Escher.  He would often take me along
to galleries and special exhibits in an evangelical attempt to get
me also hooked on his artistic addiction.  The more of these exhibits
I saw, the colder they left me.  I became convinced, quite simply,
that Escher's pen and inks, however visually impressive, were something
other than art.  Computer graphics strike me in exactly the same way:
a technological extension of Escher-ism.

The "art" that I gravitate toward tends to have a more human, emotional
element.  I remember a recent trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and
how deeply moved I was by some of Renoir and Rembrant's paintings.
Perhaps it is only the natural reaction of one who spends all his time
dealing with technology, a desire to reaffirm the human side of life,
that strongly influences my artistic tastes.

--peter gross
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