Killing the Dragon
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Extracting the Truth
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Synopsis
The advent of the personal computer eliminated the need for canvas and paint brushes
and damn near the artist!
Manifesto: April 2013
The vast array of software programs to assist in the development of drawings, sketches,
ready-made forms, and architectural and engineering plans has in effect eliminated
the need for long-hand execution for most artists, except maybe for sculptors; and
even at that, 3-D drawing can translate into direct 3-D sculpting. The desire to
paint, no matter how satisfactory the feel of the texture is, is a romantic notion
of the past from which it is difficult to distance ourselves. Once the sketch or
completed work is achieved with the PC, its reproduction by the numbers on traditional
paper or canvas with traditional tools has become superfluous, if not boring, since
the final creation is portrayed/demonstrated on the monitor screen!
Crow [click image to enlarge]
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In conclusion, one must take computer-assisted art as a final portrayal
with its attendant benefits of not cluttering our drawers with saved
sketches and useless completed drawings and paintings, drying paints
and varnishes, canvas stretchers, etc.
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Dove
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Fist Fight 1
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—“Crow” was previously published in Red Fez (2012).
“In the process of searching for the new,” Nodopaka says, “I found
the old and with a slight touch of the 21st century turned old cubism into novel
cubistic-futurism...”
Enjoy much more of his dynamic digital art (the New Cubism?) at Photo Bucket:
Russki Gypsy Photo Album
Please note that these images are not for sale—Nodopaka believes that
“Art should be made without sales intention.”
“Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
Photograph by Gerri Nodopaka
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who originated in Ukraine-Russia in 1940, and studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts,
Casablanca, Morocco:
As a full-time author and artist in the USA, Nodopaka’s interests in the visual
arts and literature are widely multi-cultural. However, he considers his past irrelevant
as he “seeks new reincarnations in independent films if only for the duration
of a wink... ok, ok, maybe two!”
He is the Art Editor at
www.vayavya.in, and has portfolios at these websites:
Fine Art America
Absolute Arts
—Image at right first published in Blink Ink (2012)