How ‘Portrait Of A Lady On Fire’ Directs Our Ways Of Seeing

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 04:09:20 +0000

A woman jumps into a choppy sea to rescue the box of painting equipment that has fallen overboard. We form an image of her in our minds — an image that is not just of what we have seen with our eyes, but one where we see how attached she is to her art, and also how irreplaceable the equipment must be. We get to know a little more about the woman, Marianne, than we have been shown.