/lit/ - Literature

I must say im kind of suprised in a thread on lit nobody actually has learnt what happened to art.

In summary.

In the time of famous painters cameras did not exist. If you wanted a picture of yourself you needed a painter. Hence painters became highly valuable. With so many people painting some obvioulsy ended up really good, also some would paint other stuff.

Also the other main use for painting was to paint biblical or historical moments to use as propaganda on the citizens in churches etc.

Enter cameras and TV and that was the absolute end of painting as it could not compete with the modern technology.

And finally, despite all this there are actually some amazing modern painters.
Id rather look at there work than anything from history.

Check out
Michael Hussar
zdzislaw beksinski