>> Cameras have not replaced paintings, assuming this is the inference.
> You wouldn't have known that, going by all the bellyaching and whining from the artists of the day.
> Guess what, they got over it.
You conveniently omitted my next sentence, which contradicts your position and reads thusly:
Instead, they serve only to be an additional medium for the
same concerns quoted ...
This statement is assumptive and gratuitous.
Username checks out, at least.
> Username checks out, at least.
Thoughtful retorts such as this are deserving of the same esteem one affords the "rubber v glue"[0] idiom.
As such, I must oblige.
0 - https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/I%27m+rubber%2c+you%27r...
Logic needs to be shown the door on occasion. Sometimes via the help of an ole Irish bar toss.
There are other sites. Other doors, on other bars.