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Yes,I appreciate that: Graphics have take the floor and from to be the stepchild of steely Art have become Art itself.

These processes are arresting, it arguably that the standing of graphic art has shifted in recent years and the so-called "artifice" has become artifact on critical opinion.

New narratives has been created in the 1960s and '70 -with tools such as printmaking- and many artist mixed different means, developed the one-side standpoint of art like a breath o fresh air. Features of traditional techniques has been modified by graphic media output indeed its mainstay- originality and democracy- are another consequence of guerrilla graphics and graffiti.

Computer and cyberspace give the freedom to work more quickly without critical standards of drawing and painting, we are apt to forget that major worth of graphics is to be a mainspring which - by all manners of means- want to bring art in the everyday.
As for traditional art has produced one-shot works but it seems a town steeped in history, unable to shrug indolence off.

Can graphics save art?

Because I have the impression to talk about Art like a really old auntie and when somebody ask to her the family inattentive answer: she died yesterday, it seems.

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