[KarlInOhio]

Any complaint about the move of art from representational to no representational has to include the effects of photography. What was previously an all day job for some painter or even drawer to created an image of a person or family became a few minutes of sitting in front of a box and some splashing of chemicals.

How much of "art as a profitable business" was wiped out in the mid-1800s? How many middling painters could have practiced on years of painting doctors' and merchants' families to become good? And how much of the "Art World's" criticism and complaints about J.S.Sargent or Bouguereau were sour grapes about photography destroying the business of representational art where only a very few of the best remaining artists could survive ?

[Buttons12]

the move of art from representational to no representational

Well, it's good for struggling artists of other species. Your pachyderms and chimps for instance.