Traditional Art vs. Digital Art: Which Has More Artistic Value?

Can this "artwork" made on MS Paint be held to the same value as something like the artwork underneath?



Traditional art refers to art forms that have been around for a while such as oil painting, sculpture, and line drawings. Digital art is a more contemporary art form that incorporates technology. Softwares such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Processing, and even MS Paint are all examples of technologies that have fueled digital art. Because traditional art requires more hand-to-paper (or hand-to-material) work, it takes a lot of physical effort and time to complete. Digital art can be produced much more quickly. For instance, if you are sculpting something and you wanted to make a duplicate pattern, you would have to re-sculpt the same pattern again. However, if you want to repeat a pattern on illustrator, all you have to do is hit that Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. Does this then devalue digital art?
My answer is no -- I think what matters more is not the time spent creating a piece, but the design process that the artist went through the create the work. This means that the artist had brainstormed, executed, critiqued, and re-visited the work before making it public.
What are your thoughts? Do you think traditional art has more artistic value than digital art or vice versa?

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