Times are changing, human beings are progressing, each of us is in a rapidly developing environment, 20 years ago, the mobile phone is still a luxury that can only call and text, and now, everyone has a smart phone, its complex functions make young people can not understand.
Works of art will also change with the times, which stems from the artist's thinking, aesthetic and creative tools, in the case of painting tools alone, no one can say clearly how many tools can be used to paint, and in the artist's view, any tool can become their brush.
Gabriel Shama, an artist from California, when he was just engaged in artistic creation, was still just painting on paper and linen, and gradually, after he found the direction of creation, he began to use a carving knife to "paint" on the wooden board, and it did not take long for the carving knife to meet his needs, so he turned his attention to laser tools.
Since getting the laser cutting machine, he has been using lasers for artistic creation, and his goal is to engrave the most complex extreme patterns. Using a laser cutter to engrave a work is not directly cutting with it, it still requires many steps.
The first step is to start from the original vector drawing of the pattern, each layer of the work needs to make a separate vector diagram, the vector image is made and entered into the computer software, and then the laser cutting machine cuts the wooden boards one by one, and finally Gabriel Shama pastes these wooden boards, and finally forms the complex and exquisite wood carvings we see.
Using a laser cutting machine to make wood carving can greatly shorten the artist's creative time, which originally took several months, or even half a year of wood carving work, and handed over to the laser cutting machine can be perfectly completed in less than half a day.
However, Gabriel Shama's creative approach has also been questioned by many. The main creative process is left to machines, which is not artistic creation, but mass production of crafts, and even many people feel that Gabriel Shama's approach is insulting to art. However, Gabriel Shama does not think so, arguing that the most important thing in artistic creation is thought, not craftsmanship. Creating with the help of a machine will allow his ideas to be realized in a short time and corrected the next time he creates.
The development of science and technology has indeed brought a lot of changes to our lives, the same is true in the field of art, with the help of machines to create seems to be the trend of the future, Xiao Dai believes that more and more modern artists will use more convenient tools to create art, of course, how to define these works of art, or a question that needs to be answered by time.
Okay, so let's take a look at gabriel Shama's intricate and delicate wood carvings created with laser cutters.