Zed A. Shaw, Painter

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.

This is not the only example. I went to a conference where *every* presenter ranted for 50% of their talks about how terrible photos were. They all wanted to bring back "the Salon", which is actually the definition of an authoritarian state backed art show.

Every one of these painters though couldn't tell you when Cadmium or the tin tube was invented. Hint: It's after camera lucida *and* after photography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goffe_Rand … They were very selective in their "without devices" it seems.

There were even some who had no idea that Rembrandt used a massive studio manufacturing operation to produce most of his paintings. They just thought dude sat there and painted all of The Night Watch by himself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch …

These Nazi Realists believed that they were maintaining the purity of classic art like some kind of artistic Society for Creative Anachronism. The were really just perpetuating and maintaining a false history that produced a propaganda they could believe.

These artists get away with it because in American society we view artists as some kind of spiritual morally good people who are cool and *never* would be Nazis like...Hitler...who was totally an artist. Like, how could an artist *possibly* want to destroy a student?!?!?!

But in this tiny chunk of the art world, there's a group of artists who totally believe in this purity of art that thinks the "Old Masters" never used any devices and painted "naturally" (while _they_ use pigments ground into alkali refined linseed oils and put in tin tubes).

Is there some movement that does it all “naturally”, like they start from the ground up and build their own paint, brushes and canvas?