Every object appears against an undifferentiated ground and in a chosen but given perspective

Evidence

Hockney said that the viewer in the Watteau picture is an alienated voyeur who may as well be looking through a keyhole. In the Picasso painting, however, we are in the room with her. For Hockney, this made the Picasso piece the more realistic of the two, since “[w]e do not look at the world from a distance; we are in it, and that’s how we feel.” — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 357 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The object is both fully within each appearance and totally beyond the whole series — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 118; An object’s objectivity rests on a principle binding its infinite appearances; Realism tracks being inside a scene, not viewing it from outside — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 357 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• An object’s objectivity rests on a principle binding its infinite appearances #expands (0.80)
• Realism tracks being inside a scene, not viewing it from outside #expands (0.75) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 357