Problem picture
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problem-picture-205-10657469
title:
Problem picture
text:
A problem picture is a genre of art popular in late Victorian painting, characterised by the deliberately ambiguous depiction of a key moment in a narrative that can be interpreted in several different ways, or which portrays an unresolved dilemma. It has some relation to the problem play. The viewer of the picture is invited to speculate about several different possible explanations of the scene. The genre has much in common with that of book illustration, then at its most popular, but with the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Genre of art popular in late Victorian painting
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_picture
date created:
2005-09-27T15:56:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T12:47:29Z
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