Something I found interesting from last class was when we began to talk about analog versus digital. Obvious examples of this are in terms of televisions. Where older televisions are analog streaming and newer ones are digital streaming. The interesting part of class came after this though when we started to discuss art being analog or digital. We began to discuss the artist Rembrandt who is a Dutch artist. One of his famous paintings is The Night Watch from 1642. Looking at the painting online it is an amazing work of art.
I don’t know much about the details of the painting; I actually have never even seen the painting before. Apparently, it is one of the most famous Dutch Golden Age paintings. After a quick google search behind the meaning of the painting it is a group portrait of civic guardsmen. It is supposed to represent these guardsmen as the defenders of the city. I think Rembrandt did a good job portraying that. Anyways back to analog versus digital.
Digital signals are represented in discrete values meaning there is a finite number of values that the signal can be converted to. Analog has infinite values or combinations that the signal can be converted to. This means that Rembrandt’s painting is analog. It has infinite color combinations on the canvas and was created by hand. One could argue viewing it on a digital laptop screen would make that perception digital. Which is true there are a finite number of pixels on the screen trying to represent the actual painting. But the actual painting itself is analog.
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/baroque-art1/holland/a/rembrandt-the-night-watch#:~:text=It%20is%20a%20group%20portrait,maintaining%20order%20throughout%20the%20city.