This essay focuses on the technical limitations of early photography.When photography was first introduced in the 19th century it was a game changer for art.  How did the inroduction of photography affect painting and vice versa in the 19th century.

the technical limitations of early photography

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When photography was first introduced in the 19th century it was a game changer for art.  How did the inroduction of photography affect painting and vice versa in the 19th century?  Painting was no longer necessary for portraits or documentation.  Did artists see this as a good thing or a bad thing?
Firstly, look at Thomas Cole’s painting, The Oxbow and Henry Ossawa Tanner’s painting, The Banjo Lessoncompared to Timothy O’Sullivan’s photograph, Iceberg Canyon and Nadar’s photograph, Sarah Bernhardt.
Secondly, considering the technical limitations of early photography,  how was photography  accepted as a fine art equal to the media of painting?
Finally, some of the early criticism of photography continues to this day in the arguments about digital vs. film photography and computer art?  Change is always an adjustment.  What is your opinion on this topic?

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Malevich published “The Non-Objective World” in 1919 in the catalogue for the 10th State Exhibition in Moscow. Here he emphasizes how non-objective art represents feeling, not objects, as it strips away all of the accumulations of civilization to get at the essence of existence, much as so-called primitive artists do.Malevich was the founder of Suprematism which evolved from Futurism and took any recognizable content from that movement and reduced it down to its essence.  It’s hard to “like” this kind of art.

 An excerpt from his manifesto for this movement is below.

Almost the opposite of Malevich is Marcel Duchamp though a challenge in a different way.  Duchamp was deeply affected by the senseless losses of World War I, the so-called war to end all wars. We know how that one turns out.   Visit the Marcel Duchamp Encounter Room at: http://www.freshwidow.com/encounter-room.html Links to an external site.  View the works and read the accompanying stories.
·Firstly,what do artists believe is the goal of art?
·Secondly, be sure to analyze in terms of what you’ve learned, not in terms of what you “like”.

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