The Waterfinder

Janschka, an artist who emigrated from Vienna, Austria, to Philadelphia in the years after World War II, introduced European ideas and Surrealist sensibilities to Philadelphia’s art world. Here, differences in the scale of the two figures and between painted elements and the decorative three-dimensional frame focus our attention on illusions in art and the biases inherent in perception.

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