“From today, painting is dead” French artist Paul Delaroche supposedly declared when first viewing an early photograph in 1840.
Really fun history lesson! I've enjoyed writing about Daguerre and how everything changed in the world of art (and, well, everything else) around that time, and yet art is still art.
Really fun history lesson! I've enjoyed writing about Daguerre and how everything changed in the world of art (and, well, everything else) around that time, and yet art is still art.