“Photography will make painting obsolete,” said Gustave Flaubert in his “the Dictionary of received ideas”, an assembly of notes made in the 1870s (Flaubert, 2018). People at the time were trying to cope with the major inventions brought on by technology,  such as trains, telegraph and photography. The spread of photographic technology put  pressure on the reigning artistic movement of the era, realism (Duggan, 2013). People began  to see realism in painting as coming short o