The scene looks for the world like a 21st century teenager texting or looking at social media while carelessly walking down the street but was actually painted around 1850.In ‘The Expected One’ Austrian artist Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller,shows a young man waiting on a countryside path holding a pinking flower while a girl approaches with her attention gripped by a small rectangular object in her hands.The time travel scenario was sparked on Twitter by retired local government officer Peter Russell in response to a similar image being posted.He told Motherboard : “What strikes me most is how much a change in technology has changed the interpretation of the painting…
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One of our Twitter followers mentions that "It's a prayer book"
ReplyDeleteMy response was to say "! think it is more of an interest, of peoples perceptions."
Until the mobile age, it would have just been someone holding a book, these days if you asked folks more than likely you would get the response of someone clasping their mobile phone.
What are your thoughts?