#newartmedium

[antovitko]

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Newest medium to paint on, I paint on everything pretty soon it will probably be myself:) . . #newartmedium #worldart #newestartist #warhol #screenart #brooklynartist #antovitkoart #newestart #superpainting #bushwick #nycartmaking #artcollector #artbuyer (at Unruly Collective) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBOrEkJl6Jv/?igshid=s83mtp90jcnc

[ekgormandesigns]

Playing around this morning with one of my birthday presents...a box box of oil pastels. Learning how to work the new medium. #oilpastel #newartmedium #artforfun

[nmm-arh272-blog]

Its interesting that because of the views at the time, photography as able to transcend the bounds of a lot of fields of study at the time. I appreciate that it wasn’t sectioned into one descriptor. It was simultaneously a part of art, science, entertainment, and mystery.

But perhaps because it was so hard to pin down and describe, it also seems like there was a lot of fear and uncertainty around the new medium. Here the unknown, and “hard-to-describe” meant competing interpretations.

Artists were intimidated by it taking over their medium.

The public was scared of its connection the the unknown.

What is even more interesting to me, though, is despite its connections to all the above, people used naturalistic language to describe the photograph’s process. So while some saw it as being a ghostly medium that could reveal the supernatural, others saw it as nature’s imprint, which then “undermined the role of the photographer.”