Instrumentality and artistry: A review study on identity distinction in digital painting
List of Authors
  • Azian Tahir , Huang Songsheng

Keyword
  • Digital Painting, Artistic Property, Instrumental Property, Medium Specificity, Painting/Graphic Software

Abstract
  • This study attempts to categorize digital paintings into two main categories and propose a taxonomy based on computer graphics expert Alvy Smith's views on the distinction between the terms "Digital Paint Program" and "Digital Paint System". The main categories are 'Digital Traditional Painting' and 'Meta Digital Painting'. The former is considered instrumental digital painting, i.e., technological updates or innovations in traditional painting, while the latter is artistic digital painting, i.e., the purely artistic state of digital painting. This categorization idea helps scholars to more accurately locate the specificity of digital painting as an art medium, and promote the transformation of digital painting to pure art in the context of artificial intelligence painting, aiming to maintain the validity of digital painting research or practice work. This study is based on the review study to sorting and analyze the perceived perspectives of artists/scholars on digital painting after the 21st century, and their descriptions of the characteristics of digital painting modality, which to further explanations of the perceived perspectives, intend to explain the specific meanings of the two categories of digital paintings, and statement the necessity of proposing the taxonomy.

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