Osip Brik's Photography versus Painting - 1926 says that even the most "gifted painter cannot achieve the degree of reproduction of which the camera is capable...Painting cannot transpose real colours. It can only copy-more or less...The colour media with which a painter works (oil, watercolour, size) have different effect on our eyes than the rays of light which give diverse colours to objects. However much the painter tries he or she cannot go beyond the narrow limits of the palette." - i agree with this and it goes to show that even if painting cannot transpose real colours so how can a computer, and if a paint palette has limits- what sort of limits does a computer palette have?
http://clarissa-b.blogspot.com/2010/02/evolution-of-idea-of-art.html:
Walter Benjamin’s, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction- the main idea he raised was to show the way art changes when it is reproduced. He speaks of being lost in translation- and i agree.
Osip Brik's From Picture to Calico-print. He talks about the role of calico print and easel artists'.Brik thinks that the easel-painting serve no purpose other than pleasing the eye. The easel-painting’s defense was this: without them, there would be no secondary forms of art ( agit poster, sketches for calico prints, and book covers.) Easel paintings are the basis of our art culture. Secondly, the easel artists argue that all artists, no matter their medium, must be a master of all art culture. The easel artist is at the base of all cultural paintings. Brik disagrees with the easel-paintings argument. Why does one have to learn the art of easel painting before he can make a still-life? Painting is an art, not a science. It is not necessary. In the end, he comes to a conclusion that the future is being made in factories and not in the attic studio.
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