> In 1859, French poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire decried a new form of artistic expression: photography. This new medium, he said, was “the refuge of every would-be painter, every painter too ill-endowed or too lazy to complete his studies” and to embrace it was a sign of “blindness” and “imbecility.”
To be fair, photography did ultimately have negative effects on art. Modern art's attempt to be as ugly and non-representational as possible is partially an effort to differentiate itself from photography.
>To be fair, photography did ultimately have negative effects on art. Modern art's attempt to be as ugly and non-representational as possible is partially an effort to differentiate itself from photography.
but then they tried differentiating themselves from not just photographs but also other art and that's when it got ugly.
> In 1859, French poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire decried a new form of artistic expression: photography. This new medium, he said, was “the refuge of every would-be painter, every painter too ill-endowed or too lazy to complete his studies” and to embrace it was a sign of “blindness” and “imbecility.”
To be fair, photography did ultimately have negative effects on art. Modern art's attempt to be as ugly and non-representational as possible is partially an effort to differentiate itself from photography.
>To be fair, photography did ultimately have negative effects on art. Modern art's attempt to be as ugly and non-representational as possible is partially an effort to differentiate itself from photography.
but then they tried differentiating themselves from not just photographs but also other art and that's when it got ugly.
The word “copyright” should be included in discussions on the critical reaction to AI art.