Tyrphanax said:
1990osu said:
If there's considered no difference between paintings and photos, why go to an art gallery at all?
It doesn't have to be like that; you go to see paintings at one art gallery for a different reason than you go to a collection of photographic art in a different gallery.
You can take a picture of something and paint a picture of the same thing and they can both be beautiful artistic expressions in their own different ways.
Just because painting no longer holds the monopoly on transmitting visual information to someone doesn't mean it's gone forever; the same goes for black and white photography, and real film, and 2D pixel art video games. It'll happen to digital photography and film and 3D animation one day as well, probably. We'll have holograms and stuff, things we can actually "touch" and manipulate and interact with all in realtime; who knows.
But people will still be making silent, black and white movies on real film, and getting out the oil paints and canvas to paint a pictue, because artistic expression isn't unbreakably bound to technological advancement, our favourite mediums never really go completely away, they just fall out of the mainstream - people have been painting since the dawn of humanity, and they'll continue to do so until the end.
I don't know. I just hate to see movies like "The Godfather" and "Star Wars" and "Alien" be thought of as "blurry" and "jittery". Just like people don't appreciate paintings anymore, people won't appreciate these movies anymore. Maybe it's inevitable but it doesn't mean i have to like it