Malarstwo: między Scyllą „fotograficznego” weryzmu a Charybdą czystej formy
Painting: Between Scylla of ‘Photographic’ Verism and Charybdis of Pure Form

Summary/Abstract: According to Pliny, ancient painters aimed to create perfect illusion. Following earlier authors, whose writings have not survived, he quoted many legends about Greek painters who were capable of showing the world so realistically that their paintings seemed to be its true copies. Almost a thousand years after the collapse of the ancient world, this illusionism was revived, and became a fundamental principle of the Renaissance. The invention of photography in the 19th century resulted in questions about the nature of art, i.e., the difference between a painting and a photograph, which in turn led artists to going beyond naturalism in art. Abstract art appeared in the early 1900s, and became a dominant form of artistic expression in the following years. However, naturalism has survived and is present in hyperrealism and new old masters. The illusionist imitation of nature and abstract painting are now at the extreme ends of the radical pluralistic postmodern spectrum of art.

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