Hey, I am not a downer on digital art, far from it, since I started attempting it for the first time in 1983. I am actually delighted by how mainstream DA has become. But for standards to be high we have to allow criticism as well, I cannot stand this intolerant era of fragile egos that we are living in at the moment - but I can tell you that it is certainly transitory.
For artists to account for themselves, there ought to be meaning, as I say, or an observation or philosophical discourse at the least. Mondrian was a skilled painter, and made a prolonged and serious study of colour. Before Beethoven broke the musical rules of convention leaving some audiences gasping he learned the rules thoroughly beforehand, and this approach seems to somewhat a tradition from Picasso to Tracey Emin. Having said this, I don't paint but I still intend to DA and I don't think anyone should be disqualified from trying, nor should we assume that the millennials can expect to live the whole of their lives having Maoist smoke blown up their derrières - it's not sustainable.
