iPhone-generated artwork featured on cover of The New Yorker
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted May 25th 2009 10:16AM
posted May 25th 2009 10:16AM
Well, what do you know? It looks like our favorite fingerpainter is really making a name for himself with his handset artwork. Like his other New York City-scapes, Jorge Colombo's cover for the June 1, 2009 issue of The New Yorker was composed entirely in the Brushes iPhone app. And it looks like the artist's switch to a digital format is no gimmick -- he tells The New York Times that the device allows him to work "without having to carry all my pens and brushes and notepads with me." And he can work in anonymity -- to complete the cover he spent about an hour on 42nd Street, with no interruptions (try doing that with a canvas, an easel, and a full compliment of art supplies). Mr. Colombo, if you're out there: we'd like to add you to our Mafia Wars family. Drop us an email.
"What kind of artist will choose the Iphone for medium over real pens and brushes... At least a tablet would have give him better controls and resolution."
The kind who is reckless thriving!
The kind who is unafraid to experiment with new mediums.
The kind who gets chosen by the New Yorker to get paid for doing what he loves.
"In the beginning the Impressionist painters were nothing but ridiculed by the public. Art critics called the paintings unfinished and declared the artists as madmen. In newspaper cartoons pregnant women were warned not to enter an Impressionist art exhibition because of the danger of a miscarriage. In other caricatures it was proposed to fend off the Prussian enemy, who was marching towards Paris in 1870, by showing them Impressionist paintings.
It took nearly 20 years until Impressionism was finally recognized and appreciated in France."
"without having to carry all my pens and brushes and notepads with me"
What kind of artist will choose the Iphone for medium over real pens and brushes... At least a tablet would have give him better controls and resolution.
Pretty wannabe if you ask me.
See here;
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=137&t=200355&highlight=tablet
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=137&t=750049
photoshop or painter + tablet would be a better option for a serious digital painter.
>>What kind of artist will choose the Iphone for medium over real pens and brushes... At least a tablet would have give him better controls and resolution.
Missed the point entirely, and it sounds like you'll never understand.
>>What kind of artist will choose the Iphone for medium over real pens and brushes... At least a tablet would have give him better controls and resolution.
Apple product used for creative process? Shocker, ain't it O?
I bet the small print in his iphone contract says all original work becomes property of apple and AT&T, haha sucker!
Artists finger-paint on the iPhone for the same reason artists finger-paint traditionally. Because THEY CAN!
What an amazing accomplishment. Congratulations to the artist. Also, it's quite an honor to have his work, created on the iPhone, brandishing the very cover of The New Yorker. I can already envision the hundreds of Microsoft WinMo reps and managers furiously calling every contact on their Outlook address book to persuade some poor sap to duplicate this feat on a WinMo device. After all, this is Microsoft, the biggest "me too" company on the planet. They must show to the world that their WinMo devices are capable of this to.
And if Microsoft had done this first (I doubt they will do anything about this anyway), or if someone had done something similar on a Microsoft based phone, it would be a fruitless attempt to garner attention or an attempted "me-too" (somehow?), right? You're such a tard, Jubei. That is exactly the way you would have looked at it. Double standards FTL.
@Mr Clickerson, who used to be Zues God, but no more how sad. :-( = FAIL!!!!
Accept the fact that this is an amazing accomplishment. Of which no WinMo device has ever accomplished to date.
My goodness. Can you not debate without personal attacks? Each and every time you do so you FAIL! :-)
Hehehe,
This had to come from Portugal!!!
The man rules!!!
I trust and hope and assume and wish and pray and am-only-content-with that ONLY apple buys his stuff.
Don't tell me it is otherwise because I already have so little trust in humanity.
Yes, you could use a tablet pc, or a Mac Pro - or a BOXX workstation with 8 cores, for that matter. Or maybe even a Palm III. Why choose a piece of graphite over a set of Rapidograph pens - they're simply different tools, and a good artist can make art with whichever tool is available to him/her.
The point is, as someone else mentioned, that the New Yorker features culturally current and significant stories (ie. iPhone apps), which is partly why this made the cover. The other obvious reason, is that it's a nice piece of art.