
Abstract Art and the CIA
The Blindboy Podcast
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The Importance of a Camera in Painting
Painting had existed for hundreds of years. If you wanted to represent on a two dimensional sbace a foken horse or a field, or a lovely sky or arson, you had to get a painter to do it. There was no cameras. Then all of a sudden, this new invention, industrial revolution, comes along in 18 60 called a camera,. which can capture folking reality in twodimensional space. This presents the act of the art of painting with a challenge. Why is painting relevant now we have cameras? So impressionism came out of this for two reasons. One, when impressionism came about, people like maney actual paints, oil paints, used to be allowed
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