When photography emerged in 1839, French academic painter Paul Delaroche reportedly declared, "From today, painting is dead!"
In one sense, Delaroche was right — what died was the careers of those painters who photocopied what they saw.
New painters emerged that captured different... See more
Julie Zhuox.comWhen photography emerged in 1839, French academic painter Paul Delaroche reportedly declared, "From today, painting is dead!" In one sense, Delaroche was right — what died was the careers of those painters who photocopied what they saw. New painters emerged that captured different realities—Monet sought to convey the aura of light; Picasso played with multiple perspectives; Rothko dissolved forms into color fields of emotion. The market for painting exploded. Every new technological marvel brings death and loss, yes, but it also invites an explosion of birth. Entrenched experts are the ones most likely to miss the lesson of history: new tools open the playing field for a new generation of expertise.
As Kristoffer Ørum, artist and self-proclaimed ‘misuser of technology,’ pointed out in a RADAR interview, as LLMs become “very good at drawing things that look like something,” humans have the opportunity to push in the opposite direction, reviving more absurdist and abstract forms of art — much like how the expressionists thrived after the advent... See more
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(New Post) In Defense of the New
Many new categories are created when members of an existing system choose to leave and build a new one instead of trying to change theirs from within. It's often their only choice — but lucky for them, the future is built by playing new games with new rules.... See more