Representational Art Back On The Radar Screen

“Once photography took over the role of depicting reality in the mid-19th century, painters faced the question of what to paint. As new styles from Impressionism to Abstraction flowered, the dominant approach was to avoid anything the camera could record.
Still, artists who stuck with recognizable images continued to paint and exhibit their work – without the respect of modern art’s movers and shakers… these painters of so-called representational art have finally been brought back into the fold – and that the art world has finally shed the notion that a single style defines a ‘serious’ artist.”