Why do we need detailed descriptions of paintings: don't we see everything with our own eyes?
In labels, websites, and books, you can often see these detailed descriptions, down to the smallest details. why are they needed?
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Because you really can't see everything that is embedded in them. Even on some seemingly simple portrait, something can be encrypted that allows you to look at it with completely different eyes. Somewhere on the table is an open medallion with a well-drawn image, on the cabinet – certain flowers; a fragment of a letter with readable text; a picture on the wall; an order on a pillow, etc. Artists often built into their paintings some details that were either a sign or a hint for initiates, but sometimes even just an intellectual puzzle for those who would contemplate their work. Pictures with “riddles” are more interesting to consider. But the fact is that now we are very disconnected from the realities of, say, the XVII century, and therefore, without the help of researchers and art historians, we can not even understand them. For example, Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn has a painting “Performance of the rifle company of Captain Frans Banning Kok and Lieutenant Willem van Rijtenburg”, better known by the simple name “Night Watch”. I think that for the average modern resident, this will be a large cluster of military personnel in one place, performing uncoordinated and incomprehensible actions. But of course, the brilliant painter carefully considered all the moments on such a huge canvas. And there are still disputes about some of them between professional art historians of the highest class. And take the famous “Mona Lisa” – a painting by Leonardo da Vinci-it would seem an ordinary woman – and how many passions about her.
Yes, even when it comes to relatively simple genre works – such as” The Matchmaking of the Major ” by Pavel Fedotov, then a schoolboy for example (and it is often given in history textbooks) is unlikely to reach everything by himself. Meanwhile, a detailed description will help him visually remember some everyday realities of the corresponding century, or even remember them when reading a work of literature.
Finally, such” disclosures ” of the plot, in principle, are useful for general aesthetic and intellectual development. If a person likes to follow all the subtleties, then, over time, he can, without reading, try to interpret something himself, and even in general, he will awaken an interest in history and art.
Yes, there are interesting hints and hidden meanings in paintings. and, of course, anyone who is interested in such a side, almost the wrong side of the picture, may well receive this information
I've been trying for 20 years to find explanations for paintings from books in Maigret.But NO one can explain it.Neither where the paintings are located, nor what is depicted on them.You have to analyze it yourself, but little is understood.
Not everyone understands that…what he sees in the picture with his own eyes.
Because…everyone sees only what they want, can and are able to see.
And a detailed description of the picture for some people is an unexpected discovery…able to radically change both the visual and informational impression of the picture.