Artist Pioneers Use of New Robotic Painting Technology that will Change How Paintings are Created
Nov 9, 2022
Radical Approach to Fine Art Painting
Atlanta, Georgia Nov 9, 2022 (Issuewire.com) - The Painting Robots Have Arrived!
A short video explaining the process can be viewed here:
Atlanta artist William A. Brown has employed a painting robot to create his latest series of paintings. "The future of fine art painting belongs to painting robots," Brown proclaimed. "This development is roughly analogous to the efficiencies gained by writers when they began using computer word-processing technology." Brown--also a filmmaker, videographer, and emeritus senior lecturer at Emory University--uses Photoshop software to create the images. He leaves the process of rendering the digital files to the new painting robots developed by ArtMatr, a tech startup in Brooklyn, New York.
"This technology will clearly lead to the democratization of painting and the singularity of painting and photography as art media," Brown said. The ArtMatr finely tuned machines are able, within the span of one hour, to create paintings measuring up to 50 inches in either dimension. More specifically, the robots print out the digital image as an archival oil painting. The process is more akin to photographic printing than traditional painting in that it can theoretically produce endless numbers of identical paintings. Unlike photographic prints, robotic paintings are truly archival.
In his first series of paintings intended for robotic rendering Brown used a computer to randomly mix photographic images from multiple sources. Known as aleatory mixing, this strategy was first described by composer John Cage in the 1950s and employed in some of his musical compositions and performances. It's not as easily applied to the more labor-intensive medium of painting. Brown utilizes state-of-the-art film-editing software to rapidly mix thousands of still images. In this process, the artist selects the most interesting combinations. Chance, rather than a pre-determined vision, determines the final outcome.
Brown's second series of pre-paintings employs public-domain art reproductions downloaded from museum sites, sampled, and recombined using familiar photo-montage techniques. "I'm using European paintings made between 1500 and 1900," Brown said. "These highly detailed works really show off the ArtMatr painting solution."
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