Overlapping painting and photography
Winslow Homer (1836–1910), Eight Bells, 1886, oil on canvas, Credit: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA / Art Resource, N.Y.
While painting and photography are different arts, they can and do overlap at times. Paintings can look like photographs and photos can be processed to look like paintings. And classic paintings by the old masters are often used to teach photographers, as well as new painters, how to compose an image and even how to light a scene. There are also times when painters will…
