Realism in art can mean immersive presence rather than faithful visual imitation

Evidence

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

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Odell’s central theme of attention constituting a world from within rather than observing from without, supporting the reader’s goal of defining attention as world-constitution.