Digital picture in the context of innovations which technology brings to pictorial art

The art of painting, which began simultaneously with the history of mankind, has been experiencing a process that has been constantly affected by the developing technology. Simultaneously with the effort to understand nature, human beings used line, figure and ultimately the picture with a two-dimensional type of self-expression. Therefore, it is obvious that the development of art and civilization is in permanent interaction. Art has always been in a constant relationship with the age. Today, it is seen that the art-technology togetherness continues at the highest level. Thanks to this phenomenon, the meeting of the 21st century art with technology has left important traces in many disciplines of art, albeit in different forms. In this context, with the diversification of materials and techniques, artistic products have changed and the search for new identities in art has begun. Simultaneously to the information technology, the dizzying development of internet infrastructure has revealed new branches of art and artists have begun to express their originality in this way. The aim of this study is to examine the contribution of contemporary technology to art education, digital art and painting skills in the context of plastic arts and to try to make evaluations on traditional and digital products. In this study, which is a qualitative research, document analysis method is used and written and visual materials related to the research problem are examined. The products of the new digital art movements that emerged as a result of the mentioned changes were used as the data source of this research and the work analyzes were done. In addition, in order to make the research problem understandable, in the findings section of the research, sample artistic applications were produced with Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter and Autodesk SketchBook programs. As a result, the stages of creating a picture with the aforementioned programs were examined with the support of the applications and information about the necessary hardware and software was given. Thus, wtih the sample analysis of studies from the world and Turkey, it has been tried to contribute the adaptation of the new generation to the changes and development in the art and art education.