On Painting and Poetry

I was thinking about the parallels between painting and poetry and it struck me that drawing and painting skills are much like the ability to write. The main content of the painting is in its composition, the visual elements laid out in visual language. This is the reason why probably the xerox machines and type writers did not affect poetry much like the way photography affected painting.
Major portion of the drawing and painting skills includes the basic skills, but this part in poetry is almost covered by age of 5. People learn to write letters and words by then, and then the next upgrade is when a person learns to use those words to compose a set of lines that also rhyme.
It should also be noted that in case of painting, the basic drawing skills are very important, whereas in poetry it really doesn't matter whether the poet's handwriting is good, or he/she may even do-away with writing and use a keyboard instead.
A good classical painting requires, the natural/real forms to be composed in a poetic manner, much like poetry requires using a good set of rhyming words. When the poetry does away with rhyming or uses a lot of liberty and stretches words to fit, or makes meaningless sentences, it turns into an equivalent of abstract painting. An abstract painting is like using garbled, invented and nonsense words to create a poem which doesn't even rhyme.
Anyways, the bottom line is, however difficult the initial drawing skills are, it is only when an artist learns them and makes a leap towards the composition, that he/she will be unaffected by photography. Because composition in painting, like composing a poem is something that the new technology (photography, computers) is not able to do very well on its own.