Response to Ontology of a Photographic Image

    In this piece, Andre Bazin is trying to convey an idea that art must return to its aesthetic roots and stop attempting to be realistic. He backs this idea with truth of photography. Heading into the Renaissance and beyond it, art was attempting to look as realistic as it possibly could. The issue is that it never could become a perfect recreation of reality. Then came photographs, and their recreation of reality was far and gone more exact than the best painters of the time. Interestingly enough, art has fought back against this idea that the pursuit of perfection isn't worth it to them. After the photograph, a new form of drawn art was created, photo-realism. Some of the pieces from this genre are so perfect, not even a trained eyed can tell it's a drawing until zooming in. So this begs the question, is art more impactful if it makes you feel, or is the effort and difficulty that goes into it the most important.