Busacca Gallery

Tatiana Plakhova, a Moscow-based artist, captivates with her Complexity Graphics—infographic abstracts seamlessly blending biological, mathematical, and geological elements. Graduating from Moscow State University with a Master in Social Psychology and honing her skills at the High Academic School of Graphic Design, Plakhova fuses simplicity and harmony in her intricate works on 100% cotton fine art paper. While termed "Complexism" or "Networkism," her art defies conventional infographics, resembling a cyborg collaboration with a touch of the extraterrestrial. Plakhova's process remains mysterious, deliberately shrouded in enchantment. Her visualizations, like "Light Beyond Sound," evoke wonder, transcending mundane data origins. The beauty lies in the ethereal, as if aliens from The Abyss created art with Google's APIs. Plakhova, an art director, designer, and illustrator, conjures otherworldly wonders, reminiscent of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, without brushes, pencils, or cameras. In a conversation with Satellite Voices, Plakhova describes her style in three words—cognition, harmony, mathematics. Inspired by music, internal moods, people, nature, science, and meditations, she selects music that resonates with her emotions, infusing her works with its essence. Cosmic space beckons her, offering a sense of infinite breath akin to internal dreamscapes. Plakhova finds beauty in chaos, recognizing its inherent structure and intertwining with life's basic laws. Waves, stars, and leaves' beauty emerges from the chaotic, unpredictable, and disordered aspects, an inseparable dance shaping our world.

Digital artist Tatiana Plakhova specializes in complexity art graphics, including Digital Art and Illustration. As a Russian designer, her creations are crafted on museum-quality 100% cotton fine art paper with a matte finish, featuring a 2-inch border. Her work falls under the categories of Abstract Art, Work On Paper, and Mixed Media. Plakhova distinguishes herself by visualizing complex artworks without relying on generated or programmed art. Instead, she meticulously creates each piece by hand, honing her skills and experience in complexity graphics day by day. It may surprise you to learn that we've recently been particularly impressed by data visualizations that reveal little or nothing about the actual data they represent.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Art

Artworks are considered digital painting when created in similar fashion to non-digital paintings but using software on a computer platform and digitally outputting the resulting image as painted on canvas.



Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process. Since the 1970s, various names have been used to describe the process including computer art and multimedia art, and digital art is itself placed under the larger umbrella term new media art.[

The impact of digital technology has transformed activities such as painting, drawing, sculpture and music/sound art, while new forms, such as net art, digital installation art, and virtual reality, have become recognized artistic practices.[3] More generally the term digital artist is used to describe an artist who makes use of digital technologies in the production of art. In an expanded sense, "digital art" is a term applied to contemporary art that uses the methods of mass production or digital media.

The techniques of digital art are used extensively by the mainstream media in advertisements, and by film-makers to produce special effects. Desktop publishing has had a huge impact on the publishing world, although that is more related to graphic design. Both digital and traditional artists use many sources of electronic information and programs to create their work.



Digital art can be purely computer-generated (such as fractals and algorithmic art) or taken from other sources, such as a scanned photograph or an image drawn using vector graphics software.



Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed. There is an important distinction between "mixed-media" artworks and "multimedia art".