I'm placing paintings in survival but I want to be able to change to the painting I want. There is no way to do this as far as I can tell (Shift USE?) so I break it in order to replace it but every time the paintings just break up and disappear like leaves do. I even tried using shears which of course didn't help but I was told today we should be able to break any painting and recover it without using any special tool. But, this isn't happening for me... they just break up to nothing. I am wasting loads of wool and wood in order to place the right painting. If this was a bug once before that was previously fixed (after searching for this bug), it has returned with a vengeance on Windows in version 1.18.2 !

Edit: Larger paintings, or some at least, are recoverable! Testing is required with breaking all sizes of paintings... maybe also on different blocks.

Edit 2: Paintings of sizes 1 x 1 and 1 x 2 seem to be falling the other side of the block they are placed on! Example: I recently and fortunately discovered several 1 x 1 paintings 'floating' on the other side of the castle wall I'd placed them on! These were not falling in front of me as the larger paintings do. If small paintings are therefore placed on a two-block thick wall, would they be lost on breaking?? At least I now know I can hopefully find these broken paintings on the other side of the block but a fix is still needed.

Final edit: The bug does exist for paintings of 1 x 1 and 1 x 2 in size. 2 x 2 and larger appear to be consistently retrievable. On many occasions, as an alternative to falling behind the block, when breaking these small paintings, they 'jump' two or three blocks to the left... which can throw them into adjacent blocks... a thick wall, for example. On breaking those blocks to see if the painting can be retrieved, the painting is not there but disappears for good. I think you have enough info to go on now!