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The Innocent Eye Test
The painting reproduced on the sheet of paper seems to be capturing a moment taking place in a museum or an art gallery. It appears that three men in suits are unveiling a new painting to the exhibit. A cow is inside the art gallery and is looking directly at the painting from about two feet away. Also in the picture on the sheet are another man holding a mop, who appears to be a janitor, and two scientists, one in a white lab coat and one in a suit. The janitor is standing beside two of the three men unveiling the artwork, and the scientists are standing behind the third man on the other side of the painting looking at some sort of notebook. There is also a painting behind the scientists. The painting being unveiled seems to depict two …show more content…
I began to gather a deeper meaning of the painting as an entirety and how the different representation connect to each other. For instance, the scientists are not simply admiring the painting or the massive cow, they are studying it, waiting for some sort of reaction the cow has to the painting. Furthermore, it seems that the revealers of the painting are also interested in the cows reaction. However, the cow seems very calm and I see it standing very calmly, looking very blankly at the cows on the painting. In particular, it is looking at the cow on the ground, which seems to be looking back at …show more content…
That is Potter’s reality. Likewise, “Grainstack” is merely a still life of a field according to Monet’s reality. However, in “The Innocent Eye Test” we get a sense of a reality besides the reality of an artist. We are thrust into the mind of a cow. Although all of the cow’s attention is directed towards, “The Young Bull,” we can not ignore the significance of the other painting. The cow is focused on “The Young Bull for two reasons. First, the painting dominates the room. Second, the cow has a sense of familiarity or rapport with the animals represented in “The Young Bull.” The representation in “The Young Bull” may have been the cow’s reality up until he was whisked away to the
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