/lit/ - Literature

>>10738136
How is it a strawman? You're arguing that muh tradishun makes an object of art inherently better and the confrontation between Van Gogh and a random academic painter of that time completely disproves that statement.
>>10738140
>Photorealism would be the best form of art if the subject matter was chosen properly
What can I say, enjoy your endless soulless imitations of the Greeks and the Renaissance Italians, I guess.
>since now they seem to paint only banal commonplace objects or scenes
Are you implying that banal or everyday life scenes are bad for art? Holy shit guess it's to burn all the Caravaggio's and all the still lives then.