Introduction comments

After reading the introduction to Christiane Paul's book Digital Art, it gave me a new outlook on what digital art actually comes from. Digital art has made leaps and bounds in recent years from what it started out as. Now digital art is a main stream world wide and excepted by almost everyone as a legitimate form of fine arts. We started talking about this fact in our discussion on the introduction chapter, but i think it is an interesting point which should be discussed, and that is is it still art if it is say a famous piece of art and then manipulated by a computer program. I think yes defiantly this still counts as a legitimate piece of art, so what if you used someones ideas, that is what art is people using each others ideas and methods and elaborating on them to create something new that is their own. Even with my art i have a few artists which i really like, and i defiantly use their same style and ideas in my pieces, but no one accuses me of stealing someone Else's ideas. I guess one could make the argument that it is much easier to use some one Else's work and say it was their own but there is a line at which it is borrowing someone Else's ideas and just straight copying.