I lecture in painting, and to me some of these are truly impressive. Not surprisingly, those artists is not predominantly painting (e.g. Josph Beuys) or is predominantly linear (Audrey Beardly) do not fare so well. There is a lot of talk in our department as to how we might prepare our students for this technology. It is scary how fast it is growing, and how it is spreading to things like 3D and texturing. One of my…
I'd be interested in hearing your take because you are actively involved in this field. From my perspective outside of it, it seems that it's going to be an absolute bloodbath in terms of opportunities for people to actually live as artists (excluding those who work in mediums that can't be represented on a 2D screen).
We think that there may be some room for our students as 'high class' art directors. What will give them unique merit is their deep knowledge of pictorial formalities. Anyone can give the text hint 'flowers in a vase'. But what about...
'Move the camera down to avoid the strong coincidence line between the edge of the vase and the edge of the table. Change the saturation value of the vase to emphasize background/foreground contrast. Increase the amount of negative spaces around the periphery of the flower mass' etc.
Tek like Stable Diffuse may also lead to a resurgence of interest in natural media, like oil paint, water colour and suchlike.