>>74452071There is no difference between that and the advent of the photographic camera.
On one side it did away with the #1 occupation of painters back then
>to paint portraits of affluent people On the other, freed from the confines of photorealism, artists ended up with Impressionism, expressionism, surrealism and art changed overnight from
>representing reality as it isand became a much more creative endeavor
I can only imagine what all of those “inbetweeners”, all of those “generic commissioned lewd” artists will do with their time when they’re free from the treadmill of mediocre requests.
Most will die (like portrait painters) but some will thrive
