Artistic creation from Latin America tends to be seen by those in the first world as peripheral, imitative, folkloric, and contaminated with the culture of resentment that Harold Bloom speaks about so much. It is forgotten, for example, that an important period in Picasso’s oeuvre involved superficially copying African masks.
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A brief critical analysis of appropriation and its digital resources. Appropriation has remained bound to art history through big names such as Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso, or Duchamp, who exemplify the consistent use of this technique/movement within the art world….
For this first edition, the organizers of Africa ArtBox said they were looking for an image evoking the African continent as a whole and the digital media in the area of artistic production, stressing the importance of the artist’s professional development in a world that becomes more and more global. At the very beginning of the image creative process, I separated those two concepts to analyze and visualize them in an independent way, aiming to find new ideas.
Today, new working tools are emerging, offering various experimentation tracks and new ways to link various activity domains, with field trials unknown to us up to now. With this reality, each society must reconstruct itself in this new environment and…
The terms used to describe historical periods in our society tend to reflect a skewed and linear notion of the end goal of development. The “digital” or “information” era is no exception, as it refers to the technological revolution that…
We can say that we are faced with a work of digital art when it has the same spiritual motivations as any work of art, except that, instead of being made with pigments, wood, clay or other materials, it is…
