Chen Nong, Phaintor
Firstly, an item which requires addressing: Phaintor (f-ai-nt-tor); is a new term I'm inventing here in my blog. It means an artist who embodies both a painter, and a photographer. It has been before 1860 since photographers have been fighting against painters for validation in their art making abilities. Today it seems that photographers have become a permanent fixture within the realm of Art with a capital A, and even esteemed colleagues to painters. The photo-realists are surely a result of this union between the two mediums, who are the children of the painters, who have finally accepted their mother and birthed them. I suppose that the digital arts, which I imagine t...Read more