According to Scott McCloud in his book, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, anything that’s not related to survival or reproduction is art (see the image). Design basically encompasses all art forms.
After re-reading the last post, where I used the terms “artwork” and “design,” almost interchangeably in some spots, to describe the pieces in the exhibit, there is something that I need to make clear: The ‘Typographic Exploration in Hangul’ has several great designs. Whether or not those designs are great art is something entirely different.
It seems that for art to be truly great, there should be the threat of impending danger when creating the piece – danger from a stray mark with a sharpie, or danger from a drip off the paint brush between pallet and paper, or danger from being crushed by heavy metal objects while welding. Many wise persons have mentioned that we learn more from our mistakes. When our mistakes are on the computer and easily erased and re-done, I’m not sure they count as mistakes. Unless of course you’re worried about the dangers of receiving a virus and your computer crashing. Seriously, though… Therefore, while digital prints are nice to look at and to have on your wall, in general, I’m not sure they can be considered great art.
Despite all this, the exhibit’s use of color, negative space, and the Korean alphabet to compose the images is well worth seeing.
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