LOL. So Matisse, ironically, was liberated by a black woman. The use of geometeric shapes to express cultural yearnings and aspirations was actually started by the ancient Egyptians, a black people who provided the foundation for Western Civilization.
The artist could never hope to reproduce the authenticity of the camera. But good artists like Norman Rockwell understood that academic realism did not preclude adding the artists interpretation to the image.
Great artists always made paintings that convey more than photons captured on paper or in a ccd ever could.