Zed A. Shaw, Painter

After Caravaggio left one of his apartments in Rome his landlord filed a lawsuit against him complaining that he had...for some weird reason...cut a huge hole in his ceiling. That's so he can have light directed at the right angle to work for projection off a convex mirror.

You think I'm exaggerating, but I've seen teachers spend 60-100 hours on just a pencil drawing of a small statue. Now we know there's no way Caravaggio could logistically pose 4 people like this for that long. The cost alone would simply be too staggering.

Fast forward to 2016, and I'm in this class run by one of these Anti-Photography Nazis. She would rant and prattle on for hours endlessly talking about how anyone who uses photos is a terrible artist. She would constantly talk about "the old Masters" never using devices.

One month she decides to throw a huge student show, and each student starts working hard on finishing a painting for the show. Remember that her method took sometimes 60 hours for a simple still life. If you have a job or live far away you can't finish a painting in 1 month.

This one poor woman worked on her still life constantly for the whole month, and then 1 week before the show she just had to finish a few things. So she took a couple photos, and took the painting home, then brought it back the next day finished. Nazi Realist became suspicious.

"How did you finish this? Did you come in last night?" Squinting at her like this woman had murdered someone in a tiny British village. "No, I uh..." she realizes she's screwed, "took a photo of it and.." Nazi Realist loses it,"There is no WAY I am allowing this in my show!"

Right then and there she throws this woman's art out of one of her most important shows, because this woman used a photo for just 1% of the working time on the painting. Nazi Realist was LIVID that anyone would dare not maintain the purity of the old masters and DARE use Photos.