With digital reproduction becoming more popular is any work actually produced as a ‘one off’ anymore? Pieces of contemporary fine art which have survived for hundreds of years still do exist but alongside thousands of images which are produced and then reproduced with the aid of machines.
Fine Art and contemporary pieces are now available for everyone to view, one form of this being the introduction of the internet, another development in technology, where you can just type in a name of a piece of work and it appears there in front of you on screen, you don’t have to go and visit a gallery or a museum, although sometimes it takes seeing the original piece there in front of you to appreciate just how special a ‘one off’ piece or original is.
There now appears to be a secondary system of recording where artworks can be reproduced and put into books, journals and magazines, shown through moving image in the form of films and television shows, advertisements and replica’s of sculptures sold at museum shops, art is available to more people than ever and in many more forms than the original due to the development in technology.