Editing Quantel Paintbox (section)

== Paintbox and art ==
[[file:GPB 1.jpg|thumb|upright|Front cover of Quantel's Graphic Paintbox brochure]]

Quantel invested heavily in art, employing a hundred digital artists by the late 1980s to improve and demonstrate the Paintbox features. Graphic Paintbox was used to create the posters for ''[[The Silence of the Lambs (film)|The Silence of the Lambs]]'', ''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]'', ''[[The Doors (film)|The Doors]]'', and record covers for Nirvana's ''[[Nevermind]]'', and the Beastie Boys' ''[[Paul's Boutique]]''. ''[[The Miracle (album)|The Miracle]]'', rock band [[Queen (band)|Queen]]'s studio album, was designed by Richard Gray and created by Richard Baker.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_42uJoU41y0 | title=The Making of the Miracle Album Cover with Richard Gray 1989 (From GVH2 disc 2) | website=[[YouTube]] | access-date=May 6, 2021 | archive-date=May 7, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507122044/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_42uJoU41y0 | url-status=live }}</ref>

The first company in France to buy a Paintbox, Computer Video Film,<ref>{{Citation |title=Quantel Paintbox @ BCS Moorgate - Part 3. Cesare Massarenti |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ueT7GjHKXw |access-date=2024-01-06 |language=en |archive-date=January 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106001136/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ueT7GjHKXw |url-status=live }}</ref> were funded by [[Jack Lang (French politician)|Jack Lang]] at the French Ministry of Culture to create the 1985 short film Six Peintres Sur Ordinateur<ref>{{Cite web |title=6 Peintres sur Ordinateur |website=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjzRmLKUut4 |access-date=January 6, 2024 |archive-date=January 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106001135/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjzRmLKUut4 |url-status=live }}</ref> but it was most famously used by [[David Hockney]], who created his first digital art on a Paintbox in June 1985, then [[Richard Hamilton (artist)|Richard Hamilton]], [[Howard Hodgkin]], [[Larry Rivers]], [[Sidney Nolan]] and [[Jennifer Bartlett]] in 1986 to create original digital artwork for the  groundbreaking 1987 [[BBC]] series ''Painting with Light''.

Quantel also gave three Paintbox systems to three art schools in the UK in the mid-1980s, including [[Blackpool and The Fylde College|Blackpool College]] where it was used extensively by artist [[Adrian Wilson (artist)|Adrian Wilson]] to create digital images, including the cover of the [[James (band)|James]] album ''[[Gold Mother]]''. Two of Wilson's Paintbox pieces were included in the pioneering ''Art & Computers'' exhibition at the Cleveland Art Gallery, [[England]], September 1988 and he was sponsored by Quantel, who used his images for the cover of the Graphic Paintbox sales brochure.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.interiorphotography.net/ArtandComputers1988/html5forpc.html | title=Kvisoft FlipBook Maker | access-date=March 19, 2021 | archive-date=March 31, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331060249/http://www.interiorphotography.net/ArtandComputers1988/html5forpc.html | url-status=live }}</ref> One recipient, [[Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art]] had recently appointed the video artist [[Stephen Partridge]] as a lecturer who then established (1984) The Television Workshop to support artists and filmmakers' production and access to high-level broadcast technology. Over 400 productions were supported in this way from 1984 to 1992 until desktop video pre-empted the need. Artists and filmmakers using the workshop included [[Richard Morrison (film titles designer)|Richard Morrison]],<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Landekic|first1=Lola|editor-first=Lola|editor-last=Landekic|editor-first2=Will|editor-last2=Perkins|date=September 15, 2015|title=Hackers|url=https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/hackers/|access-date=2021-07-01|website=www.artofthetitle.com|language=en|archive-date=August 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802015934/https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/hackers/|url-status=live}}</ref> Jeff Keen, Robert Cahen, [[Tamara Krikorian]], Pictorial Heroes, [[Judith Goddard]] and many others.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rewind.ac.uk/documents/Stephen%20Partridge/SP024.pdf |title=The Television Workshop |access-date=July 18, 2012 |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203003008/http://www.rewind.ac.uk/documents/Stephen%20Partridge/SP024.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

The music video for [[Dire Straits]]' "[[Money for Nothing (song)|Money for Nothing]]" was created on a [[Bosch (company)|Bosch]] FGS-4000 3D animation system using a Quantel Paintbox for backgrounds and textures.

To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Quantel in 2023, Adrian Wilson curated an exhibition of Paintbox art for the Computer Arts Society,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Exhibitions - Quantel Paintbox |url=https://computer-arts-society.com/exhibitions/quantel-paintbox.html |access-date=2023-08-05 |website=computer-arts-society.com |archive-date=August 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230805194921/https://computer-arts-society.com/exhibitions/quantel-paintbox.html |url-status=live }}</ref> with the exhibition and catalogue designed by Kim Mannes-Abbot, whose image appears on the front cover of the 1994 ''Paintboxed!'' book.