If you take a picture of Mona Lisa with the best SLR camera now, will it be as valuable as a painting?

The question is insightful, and your way of thinking is also very special. I have had similar thoughts about this kind of problem.

This actually involves the value of photography and painting.

If you are interested, listen to my analysis. If you are not interested, you can skip to the end to see the analysis results.

In today's society, the most valuable thing is information, even in ancient times. Painting plays the role of recording and transmitting information, which belongs to "visual communication" from a macro perspective. Today, photography also plays the same role. A great famous painting can bring you a shock that hits your heart directly, and a great photographic work can also hit your heart directly.

In this case, in today's advanced photography technology and equipment, what else do we need to draw?

The value of photography lies in recording reality. Although we can make the pictures of photographic works richer and more artistic by various means, it is still inseparable from recording the essence of reality.

With the development of the times and the progress of human culture and thinking, painting has long been endowed with a greater mission than recording reality, that is, creation, which can also be called "design", that is, transcending time, space and reality, and is the crystallization of human thoughts and skills. Therefore, the value of painting is the product of the value of the artist and the value of his thoughts.

You must have the answer when you see this. Even if you record every detail of the Mona Lisa perfectly with the best equipment, it only has the value of recording and conveying (this is a value that cannot be underestimated, and the economic benefit transformed from this value may even exceed the original statue of the painting). The value of an artist is unique, that is, the process of creating that painting at that time. At that time, all tools, materials and even air were determined by the same thing, which only existed in that painting and was unique and unrepeatable.

Conclusion: The photographed painting can't be as valuable as the original painting.