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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zoatebix" data-source="post: 2074623" data-attributes="member: 11401">Just because I can't let a good thread die:It's interesting that you mention painted art after photography.  I'm no art history buff, but film theorist Siegfried Krakauer thought that photography freed painting from the constraints of realism and representation and allowed it to become more of a purely aesthetic art form.  I also know that there's been a lot of painting and graphic art made specifically in reaction to photography examining and imitating its capabilities and limitations.  I can't find an example on the internet (my google-fu has failed!), but I've seen a painting or two (or perhaps they were some kind of metal-plate print like Intaglio) that imitated the effect of shallow focus on a portrait.  The face is in photorealistic detail but the "further away" parts of the figure and especially the edges of the head and figure are blurred just as they would be if the light from the those parts of the figure were hitting film diffusely.  There are paintings that imitate chemical film-processing effects out there, too, if I recall correctly.  There are also "painterly" photographs and photographers out there which use long exposure times to get brush-like effects on film.I'm not exactly sure how all this furthers my cause of defending filmed animation.  I guess I'm just throwing more fuel on the fire for my "neither photographic, computer generated, nor hand-drawn cinema have been exhausted yet as media" argument.  Heck - there's probably still stuff to be said for stop-action animation - did you see how well they smoothed up the tauntauns on the new Empire DVD?  Ye gods!Anywho, I'm out for now.-George</blockquote>

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