Are literature and painting old fashioned arts?

[buritobr]

I have the impression that the literature is not as important today as it was in the past. After the rise of the sound films in the late 1920s, the cinema became the most important media to tell stories. Other ways to tell stories existed before: the theater and the silent films. But both were not able to adapt every kind of novel. Nowadays, most of the novels are no more than sources for adapted screenplay. Maybe, the writers, when they describe their characters, they already think about the actors who will represent them.

I think that painting is not as important today as it was in the past too. And we cannot blame the photography. Actually, painting had its most creative time AFTER the invention of the photography. The best moment of the painting took place between 1850 and 1950. After that, the number of famous works decreased.

[Leinad]

Maybe, but that doesn't mean they don't have value, or are obsolete. I enjoy reading and writing various things, and with proper use of imagination it can be just as enjoyable as a movie. Some people still write books, and many still read them (including stuff written many years ago--I've been reading Chekhov recently). And I also enjoy a good painting. Paintings can capture things than photography can't, especially more surrealist art.

Perhaps people in the internet age have trouble sitting down and writing something longer than 140 characters, or crafting visual art without Photoshop. But maybe that's just my generation in the US.

[buritobr]

Books will always be written and read.

But if we talk about Lord of the Rings, most of the people will remember the pictures, and not the books.