Monday, August 24, 2009

Canvas Art Prints and the Reduction of Aesthetic


Canvas art is famous for its use to produce some artworks of painters. It is well- known due to originality of hand-made work using drawing inks or painting oil. Since the limited number of outstanding painters worldwide, people have to pay a thousand of dollars to purchase a single work of original canvas art painting. This price is not affordable surely for low economic level of artwork buyers but a few rich people who have a bulk of money.

The recent advance of printing technology has helped the massive production of canvas art painting. Similar to the hand-made, canvas art painting prints vary in themes and styles in accordance to market interest of manufacturers. However, the historical side values adhered to the hand-made painting do not belong to such modern prints. Aside from this point of concerns, today’s printing of artwork on canvas art bestows undefeated beauty and impression in front of the lovers.

The themes of canvas painting prints painting vary as many as the hand-made ones. Realism, impressionism, romanticism, surrealism, dada and many more, are presented through canvas art printings with different pictures produced by the technology-based artists nowadays. Whole aspects representing the artwork making are delicately shown as well. The difference is only the use of technology to produce the artworks. The taste of emotional appeal that belongs to technology-based impressionist or realist painters is provided without lower level of aesthetic values than the hand-made ones.

In addition, the price of canvas art painting is more affordable for average people in common. Yet, some particular printing works are made expensive due to the copying version of the original ones. It is like the new printed version of Mona Lisa painting which is very popular among artwork lovers.

Reduction of aesthetic values

Leading art critics stated that canvas art prints have been undervaluing the basic meaning of artwork. Actually, painting should represent some personal refection of an artist over an object he or she refers to. The use of technology according to the critics has put the representation of personal expression to be a meaningless visual picture. Compositions, painting techniques, brushstrokes, colouring delicacy are therefore presented in an artificial face of art.

Furthermore, critics believe that the aesthetic value of hand painting canvas is inherent to its original form of artwork. Emotional expression of painter cannot be replaced by the use of technology since the already well-structured software and tools corrupt personal interpretation over the object of painting. That’s why canvas art prints are regarded as reducing the aesthetic values of painting if not saying artificial.

However, people knew what to do with their own interest in canvas art painting. People believe that aesthetic values of artworks are different from each other. This kind of standpoint that has possibly made canvas art prints getting broad response from market. Additionally, the emerging technology to produce art painting is giving a pleasure for people to enjoy the artworks with an affordable price. Aside from being said meaningless, reductive, and artificial, canvas art prints have been contributing sound existence in line with human interest in artworks.

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