But at the same time, everyone is like, "Well, he came up with that himself."
And photography is like, "Well, that's real! It happened! The camera doesn't lie!"
Yes, yes, of course. The camera doesn't lie. Especially when you have 74 filters, retouching, cropping, color correction, and "oh, my eyes are wrong, please replace them with Jason Momoa's eyes." Now that's a truly honest photo!
Scene one: painting
— "Look, this is a portrait of Marie Antoinette, painted in 1783!"
— "Hmm... What if the artist embellished her? Maybe she had a pimple, but he didn't draw it? I don't believe it!"
Scene two: photography
— "Look, I'm in Bali!"
— "Are you sure you've been to Bali? Or maybe it's Photoshop..."
— "No, no, I added the "Maldives Sunset" filter, but I was right there!"
— "Oh, well then, I believe it!"
Why don't people believe in painting?
Because an artist is a person with imagination. And imagination is a scary thing. He can draw something that doesn't exist. For example, a blue horse. Or a man who washes the dishes himself. No one has ever seen anything like that in real life - suspicious!
Why do people believe in photographs?
Because, apparently, the word "cell" is associated with something strict, like a prison cell. Like: "If you took it, answer for it."
And, of course, the magic of proof.
— "Did you have a birthday?"
— "Yes"
— "Where are the photos?"
— "We didn't take them"
— "Well, then you didn't have a birthday. And there was no cake either. Live with it."
So. Not everyone believes in painting, because it is too "artistic." But they believe in photographs, even if they show a guy standing on Everest in flip-flops and holding a shawarma in his hand. Because — the camera doesn't lie!
But the truth is that in both cases — there is always an author. And if he has imagination — both the photo and the painting can lie so much that Sherlock Holmes would choke.
Moral of the story?
Don't trust your eyes. You need to trust your heart. And also — sometimes check the EXIF ​​file and the signature on the canvas.