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Aesthetics pictures
One of the very important qualities of photography for the development of modern visual culture was the relative ease of obtaining a more or less benign picture, the simplicity of the initial skills that a beginner needed to master. And therefore, with the invention of photography, and especially with the spread of portable and easy-to-use narrow-film devices, the number of images created in the world began to grow like an avalanche. Photography has become the main visual medium of modern culture, pushing painting and graphics, on the one hand, into relatively narrow areas of “pure” art, and on the other – into specialized areas of technical drawing. Continue reading
How photography completely changed art
Both painting and photography are forms of visual art that are designed to create images and visual symbols.
The difference in the manufacturing method creates some features.
2Painting is not only the earliest known form of visual art, but also the earliest example of human creativity. Over such a long way, the look, form, language and expression, both from the outside and inside, influenced each other and transformed.
Despite the fact that photography is the youngest of the known forms of visual art (it is less than two centuries old), it has undergone dramatic changes both externally and internally. Continue reading
The relationship of painting and photography in contemporary art
Photography has long since become commonplace. But if the documentary was immediately appreciated and accepted “with a bang” from the moment it appeared in 1839, then a heated debate arose about the place of art photography in the fine arts, which continues to this day.
In my opinion, its main reason is that the photographic image is achieved entirely by technical means. There is no obvious man-made creative moment in it. However, it should be noted that people who refuse to have artistic photography the right to be among other visual arts do not understand that photography is based on a frame – according to Vladimir Soloukhin, “the secret of aesthetic sharpened and in-depth perception of the world around us.” This is the window through which the soul of the photographer penetrates into the photographic image. Continue reading
