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The Russian artist Ivan Kramskoy has a wonderful painting “Contemplator”, written by him in 1876. In fact, it is part of a series of paintings dedicated to the life of ordinary people, peasants.�
At one time, the founder of the Tretyakov Gallery, Pavel Tretyakov, spoke about this picture as follows:�
I call him a contemplator because I see that he is contemplating… I do not say that he necessarily contemplates nature: perhaps he contemplates his quiet family life after the end of the journey, perhaps the impenetrable poverty and cold, and hunger, and anger that await him at home, perhaps the gaiety of the first tavern appears to him, perhaps he simply imagines how he would steal something this minute — if God helped!
The same can be said about the viewer. In the same picture, viewers see different stories, get different impressions. Art is red in content, not in contemplation. And art is defined not by the viewer, but by time.