“Technology is the mortal enemy of art”- [100 artists’ manifestos from the futurists to the stuckists] 

Comes the invention of new technology, there is the fear of loss of the traditions and classical methods, and the same applies to art. Most contemporary artists, especially commercial ones, make use of technology that either conveniences the process, or digitalises their work. Photoshop allows the user to easily erase, compartmentalise, and structure their artworks, and even offer effects that mimics traditional media such as oil and chalk. However, this means losing a sense freedom and adds constrain to the work that artists can physically produce, such as texture and the fluidity of paint, which is quite the opposite of what art means to traditional fine artists. No beautiful accidents, or the ability to be truly avant garde when even the method used is a tool of modern society. However, I personally feel that technology is not necessarily an obstruction of art, but another tool, like the development from cave paintings to the use of a brush, nor is technology stagnant or constraining when new discoveries are made every day. Also, the importance of art is not solely in its appearance, but also in its meaning and representation in which the appearance represents, and technology is a mean to achieve the ideal depiction that artists wishes to convey to the viewer. To say that the adaption to modern technology is destroying art is against the very principal of the Avant Garde movement and the foundations of art, which is to experiment, develop, and evolve.