Before the camera, the highest standard of art was what we now call photo realistic, but when that can be
captured so easily by a camera, artists had to come up with other notions such as impressionism, abstraction, minimalism,
and cubism that circumvent the camera.
Some of the revered old masters would have likely killed and traded their brushes to get their hands on the latest
ED aspherical fluorite multi-point auto focus - digital Canon or Nikon.....and a Pro- PHOTOSHOP type program....
They may have even had appreciation for modern like this:
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/roy-lichtenstein-whaam
