The Unexpected Visitor.
Oil on canvas painting by Ilya Repin, 1884–88.
(Source: Courtesy of www.ilyarepin.org.)
Tasks
- Free examination
- Estimate the material circumstances of the family
- Give the ages of the people
- Surmise what the family had been doing before the arrival of the ‘unexpected visitor’
- Remember the clothes worn by the people
- Remember the position of the people and objects in the room
- Estimate how long the unexpected visitor had been away from the family
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Solutions
Stevens’ Power law
Text perception
