> What's wrong with a wallpaper sampler? There are lots of neat colors and patterns in there too. Yes, but it lacks the artist's purpose. > I don't understand

> What's wrong with a wallpaper sampler? There are lots of neat colors and patterns in there too. Yes, but it lacks the artist's purpose. > I don't understand how you can call out snobbery at the same time that you equate painting from life with dolphins jumping in front of a full moon Sorry about that; I fell prey to my own intellectual snobbery :) > and imply that photography made life painting completely obsolete. Photography made art as an imitation of reality obsolete, at least.