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It could be argued that art started with those markings in the Lascaux caves that may be 17,000 years old and yet only discovered in the 1940's.
Now lets be quite honest here we have many practicing doyens of the current art world who regularly frequent these pages of The Forum here. And we are part of that continuing band of artisans continuing those traditions of art we have picked up over the years. Just like art, our artworks have evolved over the years to their current pinnacle of near perfection.
It us up to us to be tolerant of those Young Turks of the Current Forum as one day they just might be the replacements of the current doyens here. We should not just jump down their throats and kill their interest in this otherwise near-moribund forum. We were probably just as daft when we those Young Turks many years ago.
So, perhaps no matter how irritatingly asinine they may appear to be, perhaps just think before leaping in with that "Rather Irritated of Penge"[apologies to those dear residents of Bromley, South London who are perfectly nice people] knee-jerk reply?
They are from a different technological savvy world to we the doyens [there are four of us that come to mind with an accumulated age closing on 300 years]. Those Young Turks may be mixing art photography & photoshop with just making art and I'll admit i think I nearly lost the plot in one thread recently...
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Don't say the Forum is near moribund, it will discourage our spammers, on whom we so rely for our entertainment.
I prefer to think of it as temporarily resting.
On your point - I don't mind in any way whatever technical innovation people bring to what they do; you'll remember, because you were around at the time in another guise, one Skylar Brown, who used computer programmes (I know it should be programs but I'm old and I don't care!) to paint his pictures (or most of them). He did get a bit of flak for it, didn't he, from one or two? Or am I imagining that..... no, I'm pretty sure there were just a few who couldn't see the point of using a computer to paint, and resented the use of the word paint to describe it: and I remember him replying that OK, he could understand that, but what else would you call it if not painting? I think we were both on his side in this, and now we have several painters on the Gallery who use computer programmes (sic) exclusively. I have no problem with that at all.
I do have a bit of a problem NOT with those who seek to paint photographically, should that be their desire (it isn't mine) but with those who from time to time comment, and not on the Forum obviously, that a painting is "just like a photo", and think that's praise. I know they mean well, but it's so far away from what most of us want to do that it's not praise at all.
I think I know who and what you have in mind in your post - but I also suspect this particular Young Turk is more than capable of mopping up criticism or misunderstanding, of which much of it has consisted I think, without it putting him off or discouraging him. It's something to bear in mind though, in general - we certainly don't want to become an exclusive, self-referential club, and we don't want to be anodyne and saccharine-sweet either: striking a balance is sometimes a problem....