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Yes, but it lacks the artist's purpose.
> I don't understand how you can call out snobbery at the same time that you equate painting from life with dolphins jumping in front of a full moon
Sorry about that; I fell prey to my own intellectual snobbery :)
> and imply that photography made life painting completely obsolete.
Photography made art as an imitation of reality obsolete, at least.
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Yes, but it lacks the artist's purpose.
> I don't understand how you can call out snobbery at the same time that you equate painting from life with dolphins jumping in front of a full moon
Sorry about that; I fell prey to my own intellectual snobbery :)
> and imply that photography made life painting completely obsolete.
Photography made art as an imitation of reality obsolete, at least.