Robert P. Taylor's : Fountain: Reflections of 3 Dancing Maidens
In the last two decades of the Twentieth Century, the capability for easily digitizing an image like a drawings was developed, and a wide range of powerful software for manipulating such images rapidly followed. Never before in the history of art has a set of such radical tools been available for preserving and revising drawn images, for presenting them to a wide public, and for explaining the process of creating them. Prior tools like etching, printing, photography, and so on have certainly given the artist new tools to exploit for these same purposes, but none has done so as comprehensively nor as conveniently for the artist and her or his public. Fountain provides some illustrations of using the tool this way and each is presented briefly through one of th links below. For other examples of these ideas and some quite different but related uses of the computer with drawings, see Related Taylor webberies link below.Fountain illustrates using the computer to alter or present digitized drawings, or to present the process of producing an alternative version. Examples are presented briefly in the pages accessible through the links below:
(1) Adding color or a hue to a drawing,
(2) Preserving versions of a drawing
(3) Resizing a detail to better match the overall drawing
(4) Replacing a detail within a drawing
(5) Revealing drawing as process by presenting intermediate versions of a drawing
Index to All Images Related Taylor webberies
