Not for me. Paintings are so much more the just images. They are physical objects in dialog with space and culture. This generates a tremendous amount of contex

Not for me. Paintings are so much more the just images. They are physical objects in dialog with space and culture. This generates a tremendous amount of context that cannot be captured in a photograph. In other words, no camera will ever capture the experience of walking into LACMA and seeing a Rauschenberg or a Picasso in person, walking up to the painting to look closely, stepping back to see it in the context of the space, reflecting on it's relationship to other paintings on the floor, etc.