Art And Computer Technology
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By Jani Liggins, U.K., October 2003
The only way in which one can assess works of art is in relation to the culture which has given rise to them, since art cannot exist without a cultural substructure. Within the general category art, however, there are various subgroups which reflect different aspects of the underlying culture: one often finds a strict division between high and low culture which is exemplified in different kinds of artwork.
If one looks, for instance, at fin-de-siecle France, it is evident that the kind of art which had always been regarded as legitimate was that of the upper classes, the elite art of the salons. It kept to strict parameters of form, structure and content and was for the most part restricted to a small sector of society, rather than being widely available to the public as a whole. With advances in the technology of printing and the growth of graphic art as a reflection of non-elite culture, the poster art of Toulouse Lautrec and his contemporaries brought art out of the salons and into the street. It was a kind of art which was...
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