What is it about?
Offering a brief history of the diagonal, this essay relates the impact of photography on painting to current anxiety about AI. Central to photography is the 'artificial retina' contrasting with the 'artificial intelligence' embedded in traditional perspective. The modern painter must navigate these two mutually disruptive visual systems both based on eyesight.
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Why is it important?
It takes the art of painting seriously encouraging people to stay interested in its achievements.
Perspectives
I see it as an example of old school thinking on a subject which has a brilliant past and an uncertain future. It is hard to say if any younger practitioners can exploit the possibilities of painting but that's what needed if it is to continue. I find that matters to me.
David Sweet
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This page is a summary of: Before and after photography, Journal of Contemporary Painting, October 2021, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/jcp_00029_1.
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