What did the painters think when the camera appeared? What is the impact on them or the painting industry?

In 1930s, influenced by realistic oil painting, the wave of western industrial technology revolution gave birth to photography technology and cameras.

The appearance of cameras has brought a direct and huge impact on western painting, which has been dominated by realistic oil painting for hundreds of years. It takes a long time to draw a realistic oil painting that restores the true face of an objective object. It only takes a few minutes to take a picture with a camera. It turns out that many painters who became famous by painting oil paintings feel that many new machine workshops have been opened next to their manual workshops, and they have a great sense of crisis. Some painters "throw away their paintings from the shadows", throw away their brushes and pick up photography. Yes, change course, start a new business. Yes, I am determined to stick to the position of realistic painting.

What is more important is to seek change and innovation, turn crisis into opportunity, and actively explore new forms of painting art. The appearance of cameras not only brings impact to traditional realistic oil painting, but also brings new opportunities to the expansion and transformation of oil painting art forms.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the impressionist school of painting, represented by Monet Manet, came into being, and soon paid attention to the subjective feelings and emotions of painters, paying more attention to the expression of light and shadow colors rather than deliberately pursuing objective realism. Impressionist oil paintings became popular in western painting circles and were widely welcomed. On the one hand, the long-term dominance of realistic oil painting has been broken, on the other hand, the development of oil painting art has ushered in a new spring.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the creation of three-dimensional abstract oil paintings represented by Picasso marked the entry of western painting into the era of modern painting. In the 1960s and 1970s, the ultra-realistic oil painting, which flourished on the basis of photography technology, was the return, development and continuation of the traditional realistic oil painting.

It should be said that the appearance of cameras not only has a great impact and influence on the painting industry, but also greatly promotes the development of painting art and painting industry, and the forms and types of painting art present a new situation of diversification and prosperity.