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A bitmap brush dragged over the screen, with Instagram-style caption: https://www.suzannetreister.net/Ampages/Amiga41.html https://www.suzannetreister.net/Ampag

A bitmap brush dragged over the screen, with Instagram-style caption: https://www.suzannetreister.net/Ampages/Amiga41.html https://www.suzannetreister.net/Ampages/Amiga41.html Art + technical prowess + the art values you mention: http://amiga.lychesis.net/artist/JimSachs/JimSachs_AmigaLagoon.html http://amiga.lychesis.net/artist/JimSachs/JimSachs_AmigaLago... If the ‚art world‘ is unaware of the latter, then it what does it tell us about their artistic credentials?

egypturnash 6y ago
The Sachs image is from 1t least 1993, as it's done in Brilliance, which was released then. It's also in 256 colors, versus Treister's images from 1995 done when the maximum number of colors was 32. Unless you had a paint program capable of Hold And Modify mode, which DPaint was not at the time. (And Extra Half-Brite did not exist until the A2000 and A500 came out in 1987.) So let's have a more equal comparison: here's an image from Defender of the Crown (1986). http://amiga.lychesis.net/artist/JimSachs/DefenderOfTheCrown_Normans.html http://amiga.lychesis.net/artist/JimSachs/DefenderOfTheCrown... And here's an image from Avril Harrison in 1985, which might have been one of the demo images that shipped with DPaint - I know several of her works were on the disc: http://amiga.lychesis.net/year/1985/AH_Waif.html http://amiga.lychesis.net/year/1985/AH_Waif.html And of course how about Harrison's 1985 image of Tutankhamun's death mask, which was both on the disc and on the cover of the box? http://amiga.lychesis.net/year/1985/AH_KingTut.html http://amiga.lychesis.net/year/1985/AH_KingTut.html
- fractallyte 6y ago
  Treister's images are dated 1991-1992!
  - egypturnash 6y ago
    Ah, yes, they are. I misread the dates somewhere. My bad.
bitwize 6y ago
The problem with "Amiga Lagoon" is that it's too twee -- it's kitsch. Like all kitsch it attempts to score points by appealing to our unconscious reaction to "pretty" things, as well as simplistic emotions like nostalgia or sentimentality. What's the theme or concept being explored here? That the Amiga's media fidelity is such that it can serve as a window onto another, paradisical world? There, I just solved the puzzle. You don't really need to think when observing this piece. It's all right there, spelled out for you. By contrast, Suzanne Treister's work raises more questions than it does answers. Looking at them makes you feel a certain way, and you have to sit down and puzzle out why it makes you feel that way -- and even then, answers may not be forthcoming. The piece exists in a limbo of different possible interpretations; exploring these, and finding contradictions between them, adds depth to the work and the audience's appreciation of it.
- fractallyte 6y ago
  Conversely, I believe that a true artist is one who has mastered the medium, and then uses that as a means of expression. To be honest, I don't see that quality in this particular set Treister's images. Copying and pasting some bitmap brushes, adding inane captions, only give the illusion of profundity. Nevertheless, I really value your comment - it's illuminating!

egypturnash 6y ago

The Sachs image is from 1t least 1993, as it's done in Brilliance, which was released then. It's also in 256 colors, versus Treister's images from 1995 done when the maximum number of colors was 32. Unless you had a paint program capable of Hold And Modify mode, which DPaint was not at the time. (And Extra Half-Brite did not exist until the A2000 and A500 came out in 1987.) So let's have a more equal comparison: here's an image from Defender of the Crown (1986). http://amiga.lychesis.net/artist/JimSachs/DefenderOfTheCrown_Normans.html http://amiga.lychesis.net/artist/JimSachs/DefenderOfTheCrown... And here's an image from Avril Harrison in 1985, which might have been one of the demo images that shipped with DPaint - I know several of her works were on the disc: http://amiga.lychesis.net/year/1985/AH_Waif.html http://amiga.lychesis.net/year/1985/AH_Waif.html And of course how about Harrison's 1985 image of Tutankhamun's death mask, which was both on the disc and on the cover of the box? http://amiga.lychesis.net/year/1985/AH_KingTut.html http://amiga.lychesis.net/year/1985/AH_KingTut.html

fractallyte 6y ago
Treister's images are dated 1991-1992!
- egypturnash 6y ago
  Ah, yes, they are. I misread the dates somewhere. My bad.

bitwize 6y ago

The problem with "Amiga Lagoon" is that it's too twee -- it's kitsch. Like all kitsch it attempts to score points by appealing to our unconscious reaction to "pretty" things, as well as simplistic emotions like nostalgia or sentimentality. What's the theme or concept being explored here? That the Amiga's media fidelity is such that it can serve as a window onto another, paradisical world? There, I just solved the puzzle. You don't really need to think when observing this piece. It's all right there, spelled out for you. By contrast, Suzanne Treister's work raises more questions than it does answers. Looking at them makes you feel a certain way, and you have to sit down and puzzle out why it makes you feel that way -- and even then, answers may not be forthcoming. The piece exists in a limbo of different possible interpretations; exploring these, and finding contradictions between them, adds depth to the work and the audience's appreciation of it.

fractallyte 6y ago
Conversely, I believe that a true artist is one who has mastered the medium, and then uses that as a means of expression. To be honest, I don't see that quality in this particular set Treister's images. Copying and pasting some bitmap brushes, adding inane captions, only give the illusion of profundity. Nevertheless, I really value your comment - it's illuminating!