The History about Painting Skills versus Photographic Cameras

Painting and photography interact with each other since the latter has appeared.In general,photography is influenced more by the painting in the early stage when the photos are taken through imitating painting style;however,it was reversed later.Painting develops in a nonobjective way due to the documentary effect of the photography.Although it breaks a new path for the painting,the traditional skills of painting hardly remain.With modern artistic painting wandering between the mechanical replication and the manual skills,the quality of the Art declines and the artistic values of traditional photography are threatened in the world which is dominated by electric images.