I'm referring to painting as paintings, not useing the photo as a by
the numbers guide.
Or paintings that paint over a photo but not over the eyes, when the
eyes are the
significant part of the painting and the artist calls it a painting.
To me, essence of the
painting is destroyed. I cannot imaging where photography will take
us in art even now.
Some of the best art for me is in photography by the camera in orbit.
mando
On Dec 7, 2008, at 1:52 PM, William Conger wrote:
Lots of painting has been based on photos without being "photo-
realist". This was true for some Impressionists. Some more recent
painters deal with the photo as if it were nature; that is, their
subject is the photograph, not what the photo depicts. Thus we
can't always say the the photo "kills the essence of nature" when
the photo itself is the "nature" being depicted. More generally,
it's almost impossible to find any post 1850 art that has not been
somehow influenced by the camera lens, except, perhaps in some
isolated cultures. Of course the influence worked the other way
around too. Early photography frequently imitated painting and
sculpture. And some might argue that the photo lens itself
imitates Renaissance perspective (the one-eye focus). What if the
Egyptians had invented photography in, say, 1600 BCE? What would
their lens and images look like? Typical Egyptian imagery?
WC
--- On Sun, 12/7/08, armando baeza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: armando baeza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reading Peter Kivy Nd - looking through that telescope
To: [email protected]
Cc: "armando baeza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008, 1:10 PM
My feeling about Photo Realism Painting of today is that it
comes
closer to killing the essence of nature, rather than the
attempts to
intensifying it, by making variations of it, without the
camera.
mando
On Dec 7, 2008, at 7:03 AM, William Conger wrote:
Artists were very enthused by the development of
photography,
excepting the portrait painters. In influence of
photography on
modernist painting is a most interesting topic. It is
still a
major influence.
WC
--- On Sat, 12/6/08, GEOFF CREALOCK
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: GEOFF CREALOCK
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reading Peter Kivy Nd - looking
through that telescope
To: [email protected]
Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 9:55 PM
Something like the impact of photography on the
objectives
of the painters
of that time..
Geoff C
