Taking pictures is so good now, why hasn't painting been eliminated?

We say that a bridge is a bridge and a road is a road. Painting is painting and photography is photography. Although both painting and photography belong to the visual arts presented by images, there are some similarities, but there are also essential differences, such as the differences in creative tools and materials, creative methods and processes, and the resulting differences in picture texture and visual effects.

And when it comes to painting and photography, there are some similarities, mainly referring to realistic oil painting. Because before the birth of photography technology, realistic oil painting actually assumed the function of restoring the true face of objective objects like photography, such as portrait oil painting, character oil painting, still life oil painting and so on. Therefore, after the emergence and application of photography technology, it has brought a lot of impact to realistic oil painting and a sense of crisis of "why should I be bright when I am alive".

However, when impressionist oil painting and abstract oil painting appeared, people found that the world of oil painting was broader, and they could go hand in hand with photography, learn from each other and develop side by side. The art of oil painting has not declined because of the appearance of photography technology, but has been expanded. At the same time, the experience and theory accumulated in oil painting for hundreds of years have given photography a lot of inspiration and reference, making photography an independent visual art in a short time. Photography also brings some new enlightenment and reference to oil painting. Surrealism oil painting is produced and developed by drawing lessons from photography.

This is only about oil painting, especially the relationship between realistic oil painting and photography. If Chinese painting pays attention to brushwork and freehand brushwork, it is even more different from photography, and it can even be said to be two completely different art categories.

Therefore, painting is painting and photography is photography. Photography has the advantages and characteristics of photography, painting has the advantages and characteristics of painting, painting can not replace photography, and photography can not replace painting. As an art presented by images, painting and photography play their respective advantages, characteristics, influences and functions in meeting people's spiritual and cultural needs.