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RE: Decor of common surroundings
I'd agree with you on diversity, but not size or clarity. I have a friend who uses a tablet and a plotter to create "paintings." Once they're printed, you can't tell that they were made on a computer. The clarity and color depth is amazing. He does them in a waterpaint style and actually has frequent "art shows" at his home where people can come in, browse, and buy... and they do. Much like you can buy a copy of any famous work at the poster store, you can create very nice works on a computer. As long as you don't mind being limited to 2 dimensions, it's a good medium.
As for size, you can zoom to fit your needs and then print it at the proper size.
That said, I think you were referring solely to art being displayed on an LCD, in which case I agree.
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Decor of common surroundings
now is a good time to trade in that easel for a new copy of Photoshop
Never!
Personally, I can't imagine clicking around on Photoshop ever replacing traditional painting. Here are just a couple of reasons:
Clarity - While computer screens are doing a better and better job of depicting reality, they still aren't close to being able to show color depth and texture the way a traditional painting can.
Diversity - Traditional painting offers so many more options even when dealing with one media type. You can change the thickness of paint, mix things in, let it dry slightly, etc.
Size - Unless you want to bust out large amounts of money, there's no way you could do a 3' square painting.
Of course, this doesn't indicate one method's precedence over the other, as Photoshop has other abilities that would be near impossible in traditional painting. But, I think it does start to show why computer art will never be able to replace traditional art - they aren't enough alike to compete.
That being said, hopefully this sort of thing will expose some of the geeks with their eyes glued to a computer screen to the outside world - and maybe even get them to start developing a little more omni in their nerd.
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