Is technology destroying traditional art forms?

Answer 1

yeah camera flashes totally destroy the colors in the old master's work at museums

Answer 2

personally i think computerized art is cheating...i saw some art work in Border's last year, and the write up of the artist told how he "chose his brush" from the computer program of something like photoshop and commenced to draw and paint some more or less "paint by numbers" garbage with an outrageous price tag...so any techie can be an artist now? i think not, artists think differently...
besides i am an old hippy accentuate old...in my day we didn't have all these modern things and gadgets, we had rocks and we was gald, and i had to walk five miles to school barefoot in the snow up hill both ways and i was glad. any way you get the picture...i am very reluctant to call much of this photoshoped stuff "art"...there is some that is, but it is being done by an artist and not a techie, because and artist likes the feel of the brush in the hand, or the pen or pencil or whatever tool in being used to transmit the idea from the brain directly into the medium (be it stone, metal, clay, canvas, watercolor paper, music, or song or dance....) there is something alive and wholsome and whole-making about getting into one's art up to the elbows and getting a bit soiled with it, it is grounding, comforting, helps me to find my centere, and a part of my identitiy.
yes technology is destroying traditional art forms...technology is destroying the planet...the Amish may well have a point...

Answer 3

using the term traditional Art forms is the interesting part of the question. Drawing painting and sculpture still fill a great bit of the artists life today and they are the basic traditional art forms. The way in which they are done is being changed because of the tools and machines available but that is how it has always been sculpting stone was once done with harder rocks then metal now sound and laser it is still sculpting so destroying might be changed to transforming and we would not be so inclined to worry about the question

Answer 4

Some things are inevitable. Out with the old, in with the new. Someone I know is one of only 6 people in the country that can weave like they did in the dark ages.