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Originally Posted by lafe
The computer is just a tool like a pencil or paintbrush. It's the skill, creativity and expression that makes art what it is, the tools are irrelevant.
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I agree with this premise. A painter uses paints, brushes, palette, pallette knife, oils, paint thinnner, canvas, and a host of other tools to create with. I know because I have most of these tools at home. A sculptor likewise uses a number of tools use to create something from a collection of stones, clay, metal or whatever medium the artist is using.
A graphics application is nothing more than a collection of tools used to create a visual message, the same as any other medium. The results of your creations can also be considered as art or ridiculed depending on who is critiquing it.. also regardless of the creative medium. It's your creation, whether thought of as good or bad.
The main problem with people's ideas about whether computer art is art is a lack of understanding of the process of using a graphics application.. The uneducated would say that the computer is doing it but somebody who frequently uses that medium, knows the computer does only what the individual tells it to do.
It the same thing when you use other artists' tools like brushes and paints... for instance, I can create a gradient shade on a canvas using two colors and a brush to gradually blend them together to create the shades that make up a gradient using those same colors on a computer. But the brush is guided by a human hand and does only what it's told to do by strokes and pressure.
With a graphics pad, using a stylus, artists can draw and paint their ideas straight to the computer screen rather than a sketchpad or canvas.. but still the creation comes about only by the hand and mind guiding the tools to bring the creation to life.
Nough said, :-)