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"Whereas we, as documentary filmmakers, know that we are not reproducing reality -- we're storytellers, trying to tell the stories we find as truly and entertainingly as possible".
In his theory, as artists realized they could not compete with photography in reproducing reality, "awkwardness" returned to art, and that signaled the beginning of Impressionism, Cubism and abstraction.
The closer the medium got to simply reproducing reality with little to no disruption, the closer the medium could get to achieving a powerful new form of truth by way of art.
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Broadly speaking, realism denotes a type of art that aims to reproduce reality exactly.
He thought that novels should not reproduce reality, but reconfigure it.
Giacometti said: "The object of art is not to reproduce reality but to create a reality of the same intensity".
A moment's reflection might prompt the thought, for example, that Tolstoy (who so often reproduced reality directly from life) is the great "reality-artist," and a powerful argument against Shields's anti-novelistic religious fury.
Unlike the digital effects of today's films, which routinely use effects to try to reproduce reality, or fantasy-reality, those of the "Westworld" era were much more modest in purpose.
Responding to criticisms of the day — that photographs reproduced reality rather than interpreted it, as art did — photographers at the turn of the 20th century used lenses and printing processes to distort their images and make them look more like paintings.
Capturing the competition between individuals enables these types of models to reproduce reality better than vegetation models which operate at a larger scale (Smith et al. 2001).
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