The Mappin Art Gallery in Sheffield has invested in a collection of Apple Macs and software to enable students to try a variety of digital art forms, including life drawing. The idea of using an expensive computer to do the job of a pencil was seen as perfectly reasonable by staff at the gallery, who maintained that artists should always be pushing back the boundaries of new media. "Leonardo would probably have been working with the software developers," claimed the workshop officer. |
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