Why has painting not become obsolete?

The comment that stated that material, image and reality exist independently from each other and cannot be reduced to each other is an interesting point to note. As painting transcends the trivialities that avant garde is trying to pursue, it will never become obsolete. It deconstructs the very thing that tries to remove it.

Is painting superior as a form of knowledge?

I personally think that all other sorts of arts originated from painting and it should be considered superior for it transcends all the other more "original" forms of art. Painting is our only thread to the past and it is only thtough paintings that we can begin to understand the other genres that agreed with or resisted it. That is, although there were forces that tries to deny it, it still remains the center from which revolution begins.