/lit/ - Literature

Photography killed art. For centuries artist tried to depict reality as perfect and realistic as possible. The goal was to illustrate real-life emotions and events as they truly occurred. This approach to the concept 'art' died out with the advent of photography, because it made this kind of art irrelevant and obsolete. It caused art to focus on the idea and message behind art as more relevant than it's visual representation. This is why pic related became a acceptable art-work, instead of a magnificently chiseled statue depicting a real-life Greek hero like Perseus.