Yet again an image about the gallery experience.

So in a gallery we walk around and look at pictures at head height. Our memory is later dim about which pictures we saw and almost non existent regarding the frames and the environment of the gallery. We are focused on the pictures we like. A photo like this comes to emphasize the other parts. The frame is accented, the broad ceiling and tiled floor mushrooming out. Unless we know the room well we don't see the paintings in relation to one another - as the gallery organizers must.

Consider it compared to a much more straight forward pan of the room shown below from the middle section. That's what we want but it isn't how we experience it.

This Thomas Hart Benton painting is stuck in the corner. I wonder if he ever painted a boring picture. I just looked him up on Wiki to make sure I was spelling it correctly and it has a photo which is a special pleasure if you are a Brit: he looks like Manuel from Fawlty Towers. I like his stuff even more now.