Some paintings do look like photographs but only at a certain viewing distance. Chuck Close's early black and white oversize portraits are good examples. Some Bechtle watercolors of cars and trucks of the 70s are good examples. There are many other examples...in the super photo realist genre. WC
--- On Tue, 12/9/08, Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Photography and the artworld > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 10:29 AM > The question for the "Miller test" is: "which > of the following are not > photographs or exact copies of same?" (in response to > a set of both paintings > and photographs) > > > Can anyone think of a single painting that you might have > mistaken for a > photograph or photograph copy? > > If the test included examples of Karsh photo portraits -- > would anyone here be > inclined to identify them as paintings? > > I would hope not -- but then, one never knows. > > There are, of course, many photographers who have tried to > make their work > look like paintings -- and that would make for a difficult > choice. Even more > difficult would be those painters who try to make their > paintings look like > photographs (even if they are not copies of them. > > But I'm guessing (or maybe just hoping) that some > testees will score 100% -- > and even they don't -- the range of scores should > indicate a certain kind of perceptual ability - a kind > which I think should > distinguish who runs an art museum from who runs a bank. > > (Other questions -- like "which photo portrait is as > expressive as a painted > one" might be more fun to contemplate, but there would > be greater controversy concerning whether the answer was > wrong.) > > ____________________________________________________________ > Click for VA loan resources and rate quotes. > http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/PnY6rc1lIIj9dvnesgnBloo39CA0pv > CEqyWbohFXw0WilZDxrNYry/
