>> Cameras have not replaced paintings, assuming this is the inference.

> You wouldn't have known that, going by all the bellyaching and whining from the artists of the day.

> Guess what, they got over it.

You conveniently omitted my next sentence, which contradicts your position and reads thusly:

  Instead, they serve only to be an additional medium for the 
  same concerns quoted ...

This statement is assumptive and gratuitous.

Username checks out, at least.