Painting

John Berger, from "Ways of Seeing"

“If we accept that we can see that hill over there, we propose that from that hill we can be seen.
The reciprocal nature of vision is more fundamental than that of spoken dialogue.
And often dialogue is an attempt to verbalize this—an attempt to explain how, either metaphorically or literally, ‘you see things’, and an attempt to discover how ‘he sees things.’”

Rene Magritte - “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1935

Agnolo Bronzino - “Venus, Cupid, Time, and Love” - 1545

Johannes Vermeer - “Maid with Milk Jug” - 1657

Dan Flavin - "(quietly, to the memory of Mia Visser)", 1977

“Titles play an important part: by the mention of the name of a person to whom the work is dedicated after the neutral Untitled, that work acquires an individual note and meaning. Sometimes this is private, but it can also related to a well-known person. The title The Nominal Three (to William of Ockham) of 1963 is of particular significance. Ockham (d. 1349), an excommunicated Franciscan, made a distinction between faith and knowledge and held that reality consists only of individual things, an important idea to Flavin.”

- From the Kroller-Muller Museum Catalogue