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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
first of al, I don't think art in general is meant to inspire anything. it is meant for contemplation. sometimes specific works of art are intended to inspire something specific.
for example, picasso's guernica, a massive mural, all grey and black and white, which was intended as a description of the horrors of war upon innocent people, specifically franco's bombing on guernica.
that painting is more important than any photograph. (in my eyes of course), so is any other iconic painting, because there is only ONE of them.
photographs are endelssly reproducible, without loss of quality. a reproduced painting however is never ever the same a a reproduced photograph.
I love photography but I feel it's main value to us (besides advertising imagery) is in it's journalistic/moment-captured quality.
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art inspires thinking whether approving or not. I don't mean "yeah! I can do anything!" inspiring, but it does provoke some emotion within the viewer, even if it's just boredom. anyway, I think you put too much enthuses onto the word 'inspire' in my post. I could have used 'create' instead.
also, I don't think it's about the reproductivity of the artwork, but it's the initial pleasure (or displeasure) of the piece of art and the pleasure thereafter. and therefore this is endless. one can still get the same from a painting as they can from a photograph whether one medium is easily reproduced or not. I don't think people look at a photograph that they absolutely adore and think 'but... it CAN be printed again, s it loses its value to me'.
I do see what you're saying and I do think that all the great artists of the past are to be congratulated and respected for their talents, but that doesn't take anything away from the artists throughout time who work(ed) with a digital medium, be it photography or graphic design, or whatever...
There's a Brett Whitely exhibition on at my local gallery right now and it's amazing. He created some of the finest paintings and sculptures within the last 50 years, in my opinion.