Painting

I found it very interesting that painting was considered a dead art form. Personally, I love to paint and draw and I am perusing a career in theses fields. Over the weekend I was working on a painting for my class and I realized why this form of art did diminish for a time. I am a bit of a perfectionist so it takes me more time then most to do my art, and with my tweaking it took me almost 12 hours to do one 20X24 in painting. Compare that to the form of taking photographs in which hundreds can be taken in minutes, painting takes a very long time. On the other hand, I feel that painting have more of a personality and individualized nature then pictures do. Lastly I think that over time the "longer" forms of art, like painting and drawing, will come back and be just as popular again.