Response to Bryson's "The natural attitude"

Bryson writes about how "the ancient tale sees painting as faced with a task of enormous magnitude: it is to depict everything - gods, men, beasts, things; 'groves, woods, forests, hills, fish-pools, conduits, and drains, riverets, with their banks, and whatsoever a man would wish to see.' The problem lies in the task - its performance, its infinity of possible subject matter, its manual difficulty - but not in the means by which the task is to be performed. Painting itself has no problematic. The difficulties confronted by the painter are executive and concern the fidelity of his registration of the world before him...resurrect exists out there..." (25). I found this to be one of the most powerful passages from Bryson's text. It shows that in the past, painting was viewed as having a huge effect on people and what they could see, using imagination or thoughts that came from within to paint for the audience.
There is so much that could be painted and some artists I think painted from what came from within them, what God helped them to see. Others painted things that were new and exciting. Bryson thinks that an image is substituted for the real. This means that an image doesn't necessarily reflect reality; art is an abstract of Reality. Using lots of colors or adding more to a painting than what you see just adds an "awe" factor for those who look at it. It is an expression of more than what is actually being said and there is nothing wrong with that.
Even though he states the dominant aim of the image is the natural attitude, sometimes when you look at a painting or a photograph, there is nothing natural about it. I take pictures and when I do, I try to capture people doing what they do, but once someone knows there is a camera, they pose or try to look "cool" and not stupid when other people could see these later. The goal is to try to capture everything in it's "real form" and natural state, but sometimes it is impossible. When an artist draws something, it is set up for them or they add their own spin to their work so it can be recognized. This is the abstract of Reality and I understand it very well.