#mac paint

Mac Paint 1984 ☀ Digital portraiture with early computer graphics ◆ Traditional gesture, revolutionary canvas

MacPaint was the standard paint software for the Macintosh released by Apple in 1984, and was a revolutionary software that showed the prototype of the graphical user interface (GUI), including mouse control, tool palettes, copy and paste and zoom editing.1 The “MacPaint art”, created with a limited representation of only one bit per pixel, i.e. only two colours, black or white, is summarised by Anthony, a blogger who has founded Apple's user community. Anthony's blog and MacPaint art were also discussed on the social site Hacker News, where he wrote: "Constraints are what shape art, even art itself. Manipulating constraints and achieving the seemingly impossible is a legitimate part of art‘, and the opinion that it is the limited world of one bit that makes great art, ’It's interesting to think about the intersection of culture, technology and aesthetics. There was a discussion about the merits of pixel art and the relationship between technology and art, with comments such as “games sometimes incorporate historical aesthetics, for example in painting, but not in cinema”.

Am I hallucinating? I thought I got an ask for Jerma eating a shoe, which I had to google because I had no idea what that meant... and now the ask is gone... but here’s Jerma anyway.

Voyager - Martin Melin - 1985

esquisse d’icône pour logiciel MacPaint, Susan Kare

I just got myself Mac Paint... so from now until Thursday, 16 April 2020, ask me to draw things! Anything! And I will make a Paint-ing of questionable quality...