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The antagonism between realism
The illusory world of the canvas for the
"real" world of three-dimensional objects, performances in actual time and
space, or the secondhand duplication of reality in mechanically reproduced
images of video, film and photography.
no possibility for innovation
New languages and a new iconography must be invented by the artist, in which alchemical symbols mingle with antique deities, bathing huts as- sume the significance of primeval shrines.
By accepting the photograph directly into the domain of pictorial art,
not as an external memory prop for the painter's handmade re-creation
of reality but as the actual base for the image on canvas.
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been gloomy.