Apologies to any rednecks reading. So…how many of you have ever heard this said by a bystander - and intended as praise - for a painting? Why would something “looking like a photo” be a GOOD thing? Possible explanations:
- Many species of animals are generally unfamiliar, so total verisimilitude is expected
- Animal art, as a genre, has heavily emphasized photo-realism (to the detriment of artistic expression, perhaps…?)
- An unsophisticated viewer of art might consider this, indeed, as the highest compliment
The image, BTW, is a rather zoomed-in crop of a recent painting - the kind of piece that one would assume probably wouldn’t be mistaken for a photo. At least, I hope not…
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