everytime i scan in a picture or a drawing, the images just do not come out as what i expected. either the colour become less vibrant, or the lighting is just not right.

i cannot deny that through the use of photoshop and other technology, art becomes more influential and widely appreciated. more people are now involved in aestatics through the middle man named internet. however, techonology has gradually smothering our painting skills. as we are relying too much on them.

this made me recall the exhibition i went in China las year during bsp trip. unfortunately no photos was allowed, so i cannot share the beauty of the paintings i saw. as it was an exhibition i went last year, much information on the exhibition could not recall by my failing memory. but what i could vividly recall, were the many the flawless oil painting by western(should be european) artists in the 18th century, each one at least the height of an adult and width of about three metres(if potrait in layout). every single detail was neatly drawn and blended so well with the shadows so real like they were not drawn but the lights in the exhibition itself, so real that it was like a photo, or even better since photo once scaned/upload and printed, it would turn out to look really flatten. i remember that there was one painting of a war scene on board a ship in the vast ocean. that was really awesome. due to my poor vocabulary and shortage of brain juice to continue searching for words to describe such incredible painting, i shall leave you to imagine the artistic beauty of the freezed motion. nothing of impressionist, but purely realistic painters. i dont think any successful painter of modern society can be as perfect as these 18th century artists were.

or is there?