The renewed interest in traditional painting methods is not accidental. Many artists are searching for slowness, materiality, and continuity in a rapidly accelerating cultural environment. At the same time, artificial intelligence is increasingly used to search for techniques, references, and visual solutions.
This is not necessarily a contradiction — but it can become one.
The real risk is not technology itself. The risk is when meaning becomes a secondary product of making.
If history becomes a visual resource bank rather than living knowledge, techniques may survive while their intellectual and cultural context disappears.
In art, technique is never only technical. It is a way of thinking about time, materiality, and human experience. Repeating methods without understanding why they exist can turn art into reproduction rather than continuation.
Artificial intelligence can make this easier. It can provide fast solutions and historical references without requiring deep understanding of context.
But art has always contained resistance to speed. It has always required uncertainty, experimentation, and the willingness to fail.
If art becomes primarily a culture of production rather than a culture of searching, something important may be lost.
Martin Heidegger argued that technology is not only a tool but a way in which the world becomes visible to us. It shapes what we consider meaningful and what we consider worth questioning.
The real question is not whether artificial intelligence should be used. The real question is how meaning is built together — between artist, material, viewer, and cultural time.
Art is not only what we make.
Art is how we understand the world.
If understanding becomes only fast recognition, the depth of meaning may become thinner. Not because people are less intelligent — but because environments shape how intelligence is expressed.
Art does not stop change.
But it reveals how consciously we live inside it.
📚 Further Reading (English)
Martin Heidegger — The Question Concerning Technology
Technology is not only a tool but a way of revealing the world.
Tim Ingold — Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture
Making as thinking through material engagement.
John Dewey — Art as Experience
Art as lived experience rather than object.
Byung-Chul Han — The Burnout Society
Speed, productivity and cultural exhaustion.
Byung-Chul Han — Saving Beauty
Defending depth of aesthetic experience in a superficial culture.