A tuned to natural E

If widescreen cinema was a direct response to the encroachment of television to the movie studios ability to make money then it’s no wonder that art has had so many gimmicky movements after the invention of the camera. Impressionism seems like an organic response evolution to art, but once the camera is invented all bets are off, because as the art of photography evolved and matured it did things that the “fine arts” could never aspire to. The most important thing is that photography is democratic; as the technology became cheaper everyone could take photos. I like to paint but it is not something that can ever be considered “cheap”, there are upfront costs to painting that can be detrimental to any aspiring artist. The most important thing about photography is the sense of immediacy that it creates; a person can take photo and have it devolved in a few hours, a lasting record of one moment caught in time.
Now I am not just simply rehashing the same ideas that I posted about last time, although I do admit to touching on some of the same concepts, possibly even refining them but I am not regurgitating the same thought. For instance when one considers the awful painting Guernica and takes a look at the scope of all the art that proceeded it one has to ask is this a natural evolution. It’s sort of incredulous to believe that the world of art in 1937 was dying for a fresh new vision to be someone rehashing the style of Cezanne. It would also be even more foolish and insulting to think that Guernica imparts the tragedies and suffering caused by war. Let’s be honest here, if a viewer of that time wanted to know about the looming threat of fascism and the pointlessness of war, they wouldn’t look towards Picasso, does cubism have anything to say about the atrocities man is capable of inflicting on each other. The answer is no, Guernica is an attempt by art to restate its relevance in a world that no longer looks to it for answers, much in the same way that cinema is today returning to the well of gimmicks like 3-d. I have seen photos of union soldiers bloated and face down in the muck after a battle, and those simple black and white photos of the civil war do more to sell me on the tremendous waste caused by conflict then a cubist painting ever can.