“I still find it very hard to bring myself to cancel things,” he wrote.
In 1910, painter Jan Veth indicated that he was behind on paintings he had agreed to produce. But portrait painting actually experienced a resurgence around 1900. Historically, portrait paintings were often. Many artists had long scoffed at portrait painting as a lesser form, and some welcomed the idea that photography would replace it, leaving painters to do more ambitious work. Portraiture is the genre of painting in which the likeness of a sitter or model is depicted by the artist. In 1846, painter Jan Adam Kruseman said that “after a long period of languishing” art “had awakened with renewed life and again made great advances.” He did mention some forces pushing in the other direction, including public tastes, art criticism, and fashion-but not photography. In contrast, he found a number of reports suggesting an artistic revival around the time photography was taking hold. I use pencil for the grid and when the drawing is done, I ink the important lines with a Micron Pigma Pen or India ink. Portrait painting actually experienced a resurgence around 1900. A method has been found whereby sunlight itself is elevated to the rank of drawing master, and faithful depictions of nature are made the work of a few minutes.”īut Rooseboom found only one report of an artist being displaced as photography caught on: an 1874 reference to a recently deceased portrait painter who had ended up on “the edge of poverty” thanks to “his marriage, blessed (?) with a pack of children, and secondly photography.” When the first reports about photography came out in 1839, one Dutch periodical published a letter warning of “an invention…which could cause some alarm to our Dutch painters. Rooseboom looks specifically at the impact of photography on nineteenth-century Dutch painters. But photography historian Hans Rooseboom argues that we may be getting that story all wrong. Illustrators are facing a serious threat: artificial intelligence (AI) tools like Wall-E and Midjourney, which can effortlessly pump out images in response to prompts like “portrait of a man who looks exactly like Super Mario.” To some, this brings to mind the way the invention of photography devastated painters.
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