Notice how many paintings made after the invention of photography in 1839 are less realistic than the ones made before 1839.

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Notice how many paintings made after the invention of photography in 1839 are less realistic than the ones made before 1839.

There are exceptions to this rule, of course, but check it and see. Photography freed painting from having to depict the world accurately. Now painters could go back to depicting the world as they wished.

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