Rui Mendes (Ruca)

Rui Mendes was born in Guimarães, Portugal.
Despite his academic career did passed through the visual arts, Rui discovers in digital painting a medium of unlimited possibilities for his artistic expression.
The digital painting was born in 1972 with the launch of the first s...

Rui Mendes was born in Guimarães, Portugal.
Despite his academic career did passed through the visual arts, Rui discovers in digital painting a medium of unlimited possibilities for his artistic expression.
The digital painting was born in 1972 with the launch of the first software, SuperPaint. Quickly this type of artistic production was adopted for advertising and, as at the entrance of the 21st century, to the field and contemporary art. Today the digital painting is one of the new mediums in artistic production more widespread in the contemporary art scene.
There are more possibilities of freedom in digital art -- that is, the "mental elements" are "free[r] to enter into various combinations" and thus to be manipulated -- than in architecture, painting and sculpture. This is the reason we now have buildings, two-dimensional pictures and three-dimensional objects being modeled and generated by the digital mechanisms of the computer and manufactured by computer-controlled machines.