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it does seem to me that the most interesting gift we can give to the viewer as artists is our point of view. What we see; what we choose to emphasize; where we stand as we paint - all these change as we step to the left or step to the right. All information comes to us based on where we are and what we receive, or what we chose to understand. (Anyone who has ever worked in journalism will recognize the unsettling experience of being at the same event as other journalists and reading the various - and often wildly divergent - accounts of the "same" experience. Nobody really has the same experience as someone else.)
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Very well put. As you may know, Monet and Renoir painted together often and there are two paintings (in different museums, unfortunately) that show how they approached painting "the same thing" on the verysame day. The subject matter was a group of people standing near the water. As you might guess, Monet's painting emphasized the water and Renoir's emphasized the people. Two totally different approaches to the same "content".