>>3591505yeah it's all basically part of the industrial revolution. The rise in automation, mechanization, urbanization and everything else that was going on then in the real world made the art world go bananas.
Suddenly they saw that you could stand in front of a box with a shudder that would burn light onto film and capture an EXACT image. Basically taking a shit on everything that happened in the renaissance. And once they saw it was possible they knew it would only become more accessible and accurate and who knows one day maybe they'll even CAPTURE MOVEMENT!
Now these master craftsmen that spent their entire life figuring out how not to draw people like potato faced retards, and could impressanyone with "well yeah it looks pretty much like the real thing" to now having to compete with a service that is cheaper, faster, and the final product is "that's literally me." Get fucked drawfag.
So the art world started shifting focus and study or money to art that expressed more meaningful concepts and emotions and abstracted ideas over how well it accurately captured what reality looks like. Which is why Impressionism and Post-impression and the groundwork it layed for like abstract and stuff in that era was so fascinating.
And then as photo production became the obvious growth industry of the future, it would have started drawing away young creatives that might have gotten into painting/fine arts had photography not existed.
Cat got out of the bag with industrialization and everything that's happened since has been humanity losing their shit about it.
Time is entropy. Art history is a reflection of this.
