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		test_epsilon on July 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to get better at painting without painting any... What were the remaining reasons to paint realism after relatively cheap color photography came about ~100 years ago and before the iPad was made, out of curiosity?

thatcat on July 6, 2021 [–]

There wasn't any really, surrealism and abstract art developed slightly before that

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