Consumer-ready black and white photography is about 150 years old. Many “realistic” (whatever people mean by that) paintings were made after that point. Consume

Consumer-ready black and white photography is about 150 years old. Many “realistic” (whatever people mean by that) paintings were made after that point. Consumer-ready color photography is about 50 years old, and not a lot of artists followed any traditional style by that time. In most simple terms, the oscillation between vaguely “metaphysical” (imaginary, romantic) and vaguely “physical” (realistic) approach has occurred for a long time.