On the Origins and Phenomenology of Digital Painting: 99 Rescued Works by Jean Giraud “Moebius” for Artfutura
Abstract
Digital painting — that is, the creation of images on a digital medium with functional purposes similar to those of conventional painting — is linked to the emergence of graphics applications for personal computers. When Apple Computer launched its MacPaint application in 1984, users and artists gained massive Access to synthetic image, changing the paradigm.
When studying the origins of the medium, few surviving examples created within the context of artistic practice exist, compared to those from the nascent video game industry, where digital painting found its natural development. This condition allows us to consider digital painting as a marginal artistic phenomenon, with technical and origin specificities, in contrast to the dominant pictorial canon.
Within this framework, we analyze the recovery of a digital work by painter and illustrator Jean Giraud “Moebius”, carried out by the Universitat Politècnica de València in collaboration with the culture and digital creativity festival ArtFutura. From there, we propose an expanded vision of the author, a technical and symbolic exploration of the restoration process, an approach to the origins of digital painting, and a phenomenological reflection on this medium, which remains marginalized within mainstream artistic discourse.
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