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A 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
by cgriswald 7y ago
A 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.