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Hi Abvg,>Nevertheless, my immediate and longer lasting
>reaction was - why bother? If the artist had
>just taken a photo of the scene and had it
>enlarged, he would have saved himself a lot of
>trouble. Just recently, I have seen many similar
>examples.
I agree, personally I like to "see the paint" and would prefer an abstract piece to the perfectly rendered but otherwise stale work. However I remember a first show in Moscow of American photorealism about 15 years ago, a few pieces were "mysteriously poetic" in it's freeze-a-moment tranquility.
And as you say "on general and personal" note I would conceder photorealism more of a conceptual art than a
painting in it's modern sense.
...I wonder what if Rembrandt or Giotto or... could have seen at least one of such (photorealism) paintings...