Journey Through Art

Digital Art: For a long period, Western art was made using tried-and-true mediums such as oil on canvas, marble carved into refined imagery, and orchestras creating beautiful symphonies. Within the past 100 years, the spectrum of mediums available to the artist has grown exponentially, as well as how we, the audience, observe works of art. Making space for the myriad styles of art now produced has proved difficult for a culture so embedded in tradition, but the application of digital art is so varied today that it has found a place in that same culture. Digital art takes many forms--from Photoshop to videography, movies to video games, the possibilities continue to expand. It builds upon traditional mediums, with many styles such as paintings or concept art being used as a base for the final piece. Digital art allows artists of almost any walk of life or physical ability to express their ideas, beliefs, and emotions through these mediums, and most forms of it are inherently eco-friendl

Art After Chaos: Art has always functioned as a method of storytelling, often used by high social classes to both educate and indoctrinate the masses. From religious and moral messages to political and propagandistic purposes, art when controlled by major institutions can be distant and at times unfeeling.  Many artists have strived to combat this narrative during the aftermath of WWI, creating groups and movements to combat what they saw as yet another failing on the part of society at large. Several of them had served in the war as soldiers, some even volunteering to fight for their countries. All those thoughts of patriotism and adventure were crushed under the might of what we now call the first modern war. What had been sold to them as a just calling--an adventure even--would, in truth, become the most violent and widespread conflict of all time. With the rise in technology inevitably came new machines of war--tanks, machine guns, and poison gas to name a few--creating a new breed