Activity 9

Visual art changed with the invention of the camera because the camera took a actual picture of what was once drawn, where artists used to express themselves in their art. With the camera, there was no such expression allowed the picture was just that a picture, there was no allowance for an artist's view on the painting. Paintings and portraits before were only enjoyed by the rich, the one who could afford them, the camera made portraits more widespread and allowed others to remember there history and to commemorate events. The camera, took away the need for artists to be commissioned because everyone could take a picture, not everyone afford a painting. Some artists, also painted portraits as though they were photographs making delicate,blending brush strokes to make the picture seem very realistic but people had to sit for hours to make it.Artists, not being able to express themselves anymore took on a new form of painting called impressionism. Impressionism came about because camera took away artists ability to put their perception of how the world was in their eyes, therefore they created a new type of art, on what they felt and saw or what they perceived the world to be in their "mind's eye". Artists, rather than regurgitating what they saw in the world, felt the need to be creative and give a new perspective to what people were viewing.