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Storage has other problems; A painting stored away in a climate controlled vault where no one can look at it is just a dusty canvas rectangle. A painting requi
by opwieurposiu 7y ago
Storage has other problems; A painting stored away in a climate controlled vault where no one can look at it is just a dusty canvas rectangle.
A painting requires a viewer for it to become art.
- jacquesm 7y ago> A painting stored away in a climate controlled vault where no one can look at it is just a dusty canvas rectangle. It may just as well not exist at all.
- cgriswald 7y agoA copy of the painting can serve for viewing nearly as well as the original. But a copy can’t answer some questions so preserving the original for future study (and new questions, ideas, and technology) is valuable.
- simonh 7y agoThe point is though that future study doesn’t necessarily have a higher value than current study. Especially if the art is likely to degrade over time in some respects anyway.
- skeptical900067 7y ago>A copy of the painting can serve for viewing nearly as well as the original. Maybe for a lay-viewer. As an amateur realist painter, even the very best prints seem to lose 75-80% of the mark-making and process clues that are easily observable in originals.