What do you see?

[Tom Dinning]

It’s not always what you’re looking at.
Nor is it what you photograph.
Yet still, not what is described in the image.
This is as close to fame as I can get.

 

[Asher Kelman]

I have always liked such observer images. These allow one to ask even more questions than the art on the wall invites. But here we have limited discourse even of the art on the wall. So we have to bring our own questions!

Asher

 

[Jerome Marot]

Technically, all I see here are lit pixels on a computer screen. Is that the answer you were looking for?

 

[Asher Kelman]

Tom Dinning: “Painting Attracts Crowd”
(ADK ad hoc title for photo”)​

What I see, although blurry, is an apparent gallery setting, (composition, the dark hat, the full beard, and the prominent color on the subject's clothing), matching features of the "Portrait of Poly" visible in the image a Monet painting of 1866 shown below.

The context of a museum setting makes it very plausible that it is the original painting or a copy on display

Claude Monet: “Portrait of Poly, Fishermsn at Belle Île”
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This image appears to be a reproduction of the painting titled "Portrait of Poly, the Fisherman from Belle-Île" or "Poly, Fisherman at Belle-Île" by Claude Monet, dating from 1886. You can even faintly read "Claude Monet Belle-Ile 86" in the upper right corner of the painting in the file.

That’s what see!

Asher

 

[Asher Kelman]

There’s an abundance of “Hand-Painted, Museum Quality” copies of this painting!

 

[Asher Kelman]

Tom,

When we sum it all up and return to your question, “What do you see?”, here’s my take.

I now think understand whether might well be the zenith of the Monet’s intent: the eyes of the worker looks at his audience and now they all look back on him.

This demonstrates he created an endless dialog that has outlived him and will outlive us all!

Asher