Paintings vs. Photograph

Art 11

           Since 15 century photography and cameras have had an effect on paintings. The camera was made to produce an image of a scene and capture a more projected image. As we all know every time a new technology evolves there’s always that feeling that the new will substitute the old.

               New technology brought preoccupation to many artist because they thought that their work would be no longer needed that the art of camera would be taking over their generation of paintings. But the truth is that it didn’t it only made painters realize something which was that no matter what paintings and camera are different because; I photograph may take a picture it only makes it more realistic, even though painting is not the same as a photograph; paintings are far more permanent than most photographs and more in color. Photographs can’t last as much as a painting. Definitely photography has had a huge impact on artist and changing the way we depict imagery. The introduction of photography has created this domino effect, from the early 1800s when the photograph was invented, developed the breakdown realism in art painting, drawing and sculpture.

    That is one of the things that I learned from the video that we watch in class which was by John Berger’s TV “Ways of Seeing”. Also some landscape artist used two dimensional image of a scene to reproduce the perspective on their canvas and claimed to create art that was more true to life. Photography is not just a picture on a piece of paper it is used in movies, television, and in the newspapers.

Citing Resources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnfB-pUm3eI