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| Mark Tansey, The Innocent Eye Test, 1981 |
In this monochrome painting, a cow stands in front of Paulus Potter’s The Young Bull, 1647, whilst human experts wonder if it can distinguish artifice from reality.
The focus of the experiment relies upon Potter’s highly representational painting style, and its power to convince the compliant animal. In the background, men of science make notes whilst standing with their backs to Monet’s Grainstack. They are scrupulously observing what they see, just as Potter would have done when painting his cows. Monet’s work of Impressionism is rejected as unreal.
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