Naturally Digital
‘Naturally digital’ explores the ever increasing use of digital technology in art, that has spawned a new generation of artists that would rather create an oil painting that looks real, but is made on a tablet- or a pencil drawing, that’s made on an iPad. These devices, whilst they can be great assets in the art process, can also make artists forget how to actually ‘make’ art, and the physical skills that you acquire along the way.
MÜSS turns this on it’s head, creating paintings that look digital, yet are in fact completely hand-painted. From afar, the crisp lines and flat colours give the illusion of a digital image, but come closer and you’ll see signs of the natural process creep in- the streak of a brush, the build-up of paint, or the wobble of an un-ruled, hand-drawn line.
Imperfections such as these would be a tell-take mistake in a digital image, but in MÜSS’s art, they become the hero, bringing the image to life in a way that digital art just can’t reproduce.
