Your Photos On Canvas

Is a canvas on the wall of your tiny walk-up apartment in New York or Los Angeles a work of art even if it's simply a quality photo art reproduction of van Gogh's Sunflowers?

Nobody can dispute that seeing and touching the original oil painting would add to the pleasure of enjoying this wonderful work of art, but your photo art canvas is a work of art nevertheless.

The art of photography has changed in the past ten years, probably more than any other modern art form. Technical advances in digital cameras and sophisticated computer programs have forced the art world to examine the definition of photography as Art

Photography as an art form was originally invented by artists in the mid 1800s in France and England when the "camera obscura" was created as a tool to aid them in other art forms such as sketching and oil painting. The commercial success of cameras and film developing spread the use photography to the general population as a tool to record personal events and physical surroundings, but artists continued to use photography to create works of art by anyone's definition.

From Man Ray and Robert Cappa to Ansel Adams and Annie Leibovitz, there is no disputing the power of photography as Art, or the influence on our senses created by the artist with a camera in his hands.

The introduction of digital and computer manipulated photography was met with skepticism, even by some artist photographers who felt that the popularization of digital cameras and the altering of what the camera recorded was somehow 'diluting' photography as art.

The results of photo art speak for themselves. In the hands of great artists, photography can produce great Art - just as a paint brush in the hands of a great artist produces great paintings.and if we photograph a great painting and print it on canvas we are also producing (or more correctly, reproducing) great Art.