Digital Art -- Reproduction Or Print?

Which came first - the chicken or the egg. Digital art is as original as a wood cut, an etching, or a photograph. The original art is in the woodcut - the etched plate - and the film or the digital file from the camera - all of the derivatives are "prints" and multiples can be made from them. A digital work of art is a file - and from it a number of prints can be made. A reproduction of any of those prints - would require making a "copy" of the print that was created from the file, the photograph, the woodcut, or the etching. Yes - the prints can be reproduced, time and again, from the original file, etc. but they are not reproductions - each print taken from those sources - is still a print. if you take the print to a copy shop/print shop - it can then be reproduced by copying that print.

Got it! Thank you, Roy, for taking the time to explain.

Roy, you speak with a self certainty that would come across to some as having authority in your opinion. That's what it is after all, an opinion. It seems like a logical conclusion....

If you go back a bit and start looking in to the history of photography as fine art, there are plenty in the higher end world that consider it an art of multiple originals, which makes sense. The end game is the print, therefore the digital file can be considered as a step towards completion of the end result...the print. I can't see a reason why this can not apply to digital art also.

Susan, all you are going to get here on this internet forum is uninformed opinion. It's like asking, what is art. You will get people defending their positions with absolute certainty and an unwillingness to give in to their positions or even acknowledge other viewpoints. Even for matters that are accepted and agreed upon by those "in the know", you will still get people sticking to their own viewpoints.

There is nothing wrong with just calling it "digital art".

"Susan, all you are going to get here on this internet forum is uninformed opinion. It's like asking, what is art. You will get people defending their positions with absolute certainty and an unwillingness to give in to their positions or even acknowledge other viewpoints. Even for matters that are accepted and agreed upon by those "in the know", you will still get people sticking to their own viewpoints."

That bared repeating!!

Isn't that the truth. Very few people here are really interested in being influenced with the facts. Not to pick on FAA and the pople in the threads here. That holds true to almost all message boards on the Internet. lol