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One of the things I enjoy about doing a painting is that it doesn’t involve technology, just me, a canvas, and paint. Machines equipped with mechanical arms are

One of the things I enjoy about doing a painting is that it doesn’t involve technology, just me, a canvas, and paint. Machines equipped with mechanical arms are no doubt going to soon be churning out fine painting after fine painting, but nevertheless, it’s an enjoyable human activity, made by humans for humans.

Nthringas 3y ago
sorry to say that "paint" meaning colored inks are a technology further, machines which churn out fine painting after fine painting already exist and are old boring technology by this point the least old instance of this tech is inkjet printers
- syndicatedjelly 3y ago
  It’s called a printer, not a painter
- lamp_book 3y ago
  > sorry to say that "paint" meaning colored inks are a technology We all knew what the hell he meant.
RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago
> One of the things I enjoy about doing a painting is that it doesn’t involve technology, just me, a canvas, and paint. You would actually be surprised at how much actual technology there is in the canvas, paints, and brushes. Especially, if you want the paint not to be toxic.
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oblib 3y ago
I think those pointing out the tech missed your point. It's fair to say that making paint is a technology but "painting" is an art and the two are very distinct. An artist can create art with most anything, dirt and sand for example. My wife has been painting lately. She has two sisters that paint as well and they're all remarkably good at it. So was her mother, and her mother's uncle was as well. He did a mural in the Ames, Iowa Post Office that was a WPA funded project that's pretty cool. Makes me wonder if there is a genetic connection :D https://ameshistory.org/content/evolution-corn-post-office-mural https://ameshistory.org/content/evolution-corn-post-office-m...
- eichin 3y ago
  Admittedly unrelated to the original article, you may find https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/21/picture-essay-america-1930s-post-office-murals https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/21/picture... interesting - he's been going around the country photographing those Post Office murals (I ran across this because my office is currently in a former WPA-era post office building and it is preserved in the lobby even though it hasn't been an actual post office for at least a decade - it kind of took it from "we have a weird revolutionary-war-themed painting" (it's new england, we've spent 200 years subliminally preparing to start shooting at brits again) to "this is part of a nation-wide historical collection that just happens to be in decentralised storage" :-)
  - oblib 3y ago
    Wow! That's a great project and it's very cool to see all those other murals. You can really see that same style of art in a lot of them. They have a very sturdy feel to them.

Nthringas 3y ago

sorry to say that "paint" meaning colored inks are a technology further, machines which churn out fine painting after fine painting already exist and are old boring technology by this point the least old instance of this tech is inkjet printers

syndicatedjelly 3y ago
It’s called a printer, not a painter
lamp_book 3y ago
> sorry to say that "paint" meaning colored inks are a technology We all knew what the hell he meant.

RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago

> One of the things I enjoy about doing a painting is that it doesn’t involve technology, just me, a canvas, and paint. You would actually be surprised at how much actual technology there is in the canvas, paints, and brushes. Especially, if you want the paint not to be toxic.

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oblib 3y ago

I think those pointing out the tech missed your point. It's fair to say that making paint is a technology but "painting" is an art and the two are very distinct. An artist can create art with most anything, dirt and sand for example. My wife has been painting lately. She has two sisters that paint as well and they're all remarkably good at it. So was her mother, and her mother's uncle was as well. He did a mural in the Ames, Iowa Post Office that was a WPA funded project that's pretty cool. Makes me wonder if there is a genetic connection :D https://ameshistory.org/content/evolution-corn-post-office-mural https://ameshistory.org/content/evolution-corn-post-office-m...

eichin 3y ago
Admittedly unrelated to the original article, you may find https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/21/picture-essay-america-1930s-post-office-murals https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/21/picture... interesting - he's been going around the country photographing those Post Office murals (I ran across this because my office is currently in a former WPA-era post office building and it is preserved in the lobby even though it hasn't been an actual post office for at least a decade - it kind of took it from "we have a weird revolutionary-war-themed painting" (it's new england, we've spent 200 years subliminally preparing to start shooting at brits again) to "this is part of a nation-wide historical collection that just happens to be in decentralised storage" :-)
- oblib 3y ago
  Wow! That's a great project and it's very cool to see all those other murals. You can really see that same style of art in a lot of them. They have a very sturdy feel to them.