DIGITAL SURREALISM by Sylvie Robert Dimensions Standard Landscape 120 pgs - Premium Paper, matte finish - Available in soft or hard cover with dust jacket. Click link below to preview the entire book and order your copy today !! Category Arts & Photography
::: ABOUT THE AUTHOR ::: Sylvie Robert was born in Paris, France, the daughter of an architect. She studied Business Administration at the American College, Paris, and art and architecture at L' Ecole du Louvre, Paris. She proceeded with her studies in Business Administration and graduated from the John Cabot University of Roma, Italy. Here she received a great impetus from the surrealist art of Salvador Dali and that of an Italian painter born in Greece, Giorgio de Chirico.
Roberts admiration for de Chiricos metaphysical paintings ascertains itself in her mysterious and deserted fantasy-scapes. The overstated perspective in these evokes an ominous and at another times auspicious dream space-age world. Aligned to this novel imagery is the technique Robert uses: digital art.
Robert is fascinated by the ancient theory of Feng Shui, Wind Water, that concerns the nonresistant elements which can be felt but not seen. These are theories on relationships existing between humans and their environment and how these affect ones well being. According to these theories one can maximize positive energy by altering spatial relationships and other aesthetic elements in an environment. Robert creates places with exaggerated altered spatial relationships and other aesthetic elements in which one is to accumulate auspicious energy. Some of these universes are cool, dark and lifeless, representing Yin energy; others are hot and bright, representing Yang energy. In life both must be kept in balance to enjoy good luck. These deserted spaces full of cold metals, headless torsos of mannequins, leafless trees or hot red and gold enigmatic universes are created of pieces of architecture and pieces of sculptures laid out in the background of open nature.
Robert often uses objects created by masters of design who sought to produce a symbiotic relationship between the arts such as Le Corbusiers famous tubular steel and cowhide chairs .In a similar way, the colors also symbolize the presence of opposing forces in life and nature. Blue and yellow indicate light and space, white expresses serenity and clarity, green represents meadows and forests, red symbolizes action.
Roberts talent was noticed already at her age fourteen by a family friend Daniel Filipacchi, a well known publisher of Paris-Match, who had invited her to take care of the aesthetic make-up of the magazine. Since this time Robert has created a body of work. She had numerous one-woman shows in alternative spaces of Miamis South Beach; shows in the locations associated with the Art Basel Miami Beach; and Art Miami. She was subject to group exhibitions Budapest Today and Bridge Project at Roosvelt Square, Budapest, Hungary; and the International Webism Art Show in Sonthofen, Germany. Robert lives and creates in Miami Beach, Florida, United States
::: DIGITAL ART :::
The Creative mind is the same. The Means are just different.
A mouse in lieu of the Brush. Pixels rather than Paint.
Digital Art has some Wonderful prospects.
A fusion of Creativity and Technology - 16 million colors to choose from gives one flexibility Images, created with computer technology, in their essence zeros and ones.
Digital Art is the Art of the Computer Age.
Creativity knows no bounds and there could be no better way of expressing it than through Digital Art.
The Art of the Millennium
Huge strikes in technology have paved the way for a whole new Art Form. In the conventional form, creativity manifests itself through the paint and the brush while today, in this age of technological revolution, it happens through the mouse and other tools and software. Thats what Digital Art is all about.
The computer is just as valid an art medium as any other. Mans creativity has been evolving and taking different shapes as he started honing his skills. At every stage of his life he has been using different tools and techniques to unleash his creativity. Besides the artworks themselves, even the tools and techniques give an idea of the lifestyles in those times.
Sculpting easily among the earliest forms of art, involved giving shape to stone. Carvings on wood and stone were an integral part of the creative expression in the Stone Age and still an important art form today. These ancient art forms then gave way to newer ones like painting on walls with natural pigments and then on cloth and other media.
Thus art has undergone a total metamorphosis and has evolved over the years. Each era has seen the evolution of a new art form and we now being in the Silicon Age are experiencing what is called Computer Art or Digital Art.
Digital Art is as " real original hand-drawn" art.
Painting created from scratch, from a blank digital canvas. There is no less skill involved, and no less artistic judgment involved, than using traditional oil paint on a "real" canvas.
Banning Digital Art is like banning pastels but allowing oil paint, like banning acrylic but allowing watercolor.
