Georges Dumas is a digital artist whose work primary focuses on paintography which is the mixture of painting and photography. Dumas was a French artist known for his works in the early 20th century. His work blends traditional painting methods with photographic elements, resulting in a style that captures the nuances of both media. Dumas sought to explore the intersection of photography and painting, often using photographic techniques as a reference to create highly detailed and realistic images.
Dumas has an interesting way to describe just how his work comes to life. "Layers, layers, stacks: despite its extreme readability, a paintography is a complex construction, based on a succession of screens. The fabric or the skin never appears to be bare, they are always covered by a material that makes as much screen as it is body with them. This material is itself hidden by squares which seem to be detached from it or to widen in it; By evoking pixels at the base of any digital image, these squares recall that this material is a lure, that it is virtual" (Rise Art).
Dumas was particularly fascinated by the ability of photography to capture moments in time while painting allowed him to get a more subjective and interpretive representation.
His innovative technique contributed to discussions on the nature of representation and the evolving role of art in the modern world. Dumas's work is significant not just for the technique itself, but also for how it questioned traditional boundaries between artistic mediums which is exactly what I try to do with sculpting an digital art - projection mapping.
Link: https://www.riseart.com/artist/130709/georges-dumas
