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  • The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.

    "Seeing and Reading" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. July 26, 2004.