The chapter touches on the concept of Realism and Naturalism. I am subject to the understanding that Realism refers to the representation of life in the artwork that works to reflect sheer reality - to show things they way they really are. Naturalism on the other hand is what people commonly call "realistic" when they describe a work of art that looks close to what it is representing from "real life." The chapter establishes a good separation of the two terms with examples and introduces "hyperrealism" by "facilitating the creation of alternative or simulated forms of reality," thanks to the photo-realistic capabilities of the computer and digital media accessible today.
Naturalism also receives a boost from the digital media, particularly with the insects scanned in via scanner, producing images of much higher resolution and thus detail than can be produced with the camera. These two inflated states of Realism and Naturalism fall victim to the same scrutiny that the art of Photography has gone through, being able to capture what the artist sees with perfect representation demands that the artist show his compositional skills in order to set what the digital artist produces apart from what is seen everyday.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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