With computer power almost anyone with a little practice
can easily produce mess-free, endlessly indistinguishable variations on much
MAA, aping its simplicity and even its accident prone incompetence.
Computers,
especially to the surprise of Modern Art aesthetes, will reveal that there are
no great numbers of artists with the skills of an Ingres or a Raphael. Artists
from Norman Rockwell to Walt Disney will be no easier to imitate. Computers
will serve to sharpen competition in creating singular unique images,
especially since ordinary images can now be produced in ever greater profusion.
Computers
are increasingly able to simulate many former tools and mediums. They allow the
artist to make entirely new moves which in skilled hands can produce the finest
artistic work. The artist will need many former skills along with new ones in
order to use this new medium. Artists are now beginning to produce new artistic
dimensions without resorting to revolutionary manifestos, excessive
coffee-house conversation or overblown aesthetic theories.