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Monday, April 27, 2009 at 10: 40 PM why on earth is it Carrey's or Costner's or anyones obligation to sit around modestly accepting some viewer's assumptions about their limitations?

Catcher in the Rye, catchers in the cornfields 2009

First of all, lots of people (me included) love the stretched-out-ambitiously version of Jim Carrey; second, even if somehow the great omniscient God in the Sky agrees with you instead of me, why on earth is it Carrey's or Costner's or anyones obligation to sit around modestly accepting some viewer's assumptions about their limitations?

Catcher in the Rye, catchers in the cornfields 2009

And one wonders, where does the artist's space end and the viewer's begin?

Gabrielle Selz: Doug Wheeler Distills Infinity Gabrielle Selz 2012

By contrast, Daniel Ribiero's You, Me and Him tugs at a viewer's heartstrings most effectively.

George Heymont: The Kids May Be All Right, But What About The Parents? George Heymont 2011

The prostitutes and fishwives who tumble through the satirist's street scenes may well be based on close observation, but they are also exaggerations and fantasies, caricatures held up for the viewer's pity, mirth and scorn.

Threads of feeling Kathryn Hughes 2010

And one wonders, where does the artist's space end and the viewer's begin?

Gabrielle Selz: Doug Wheeler Distills Infinity Gabrielle Selz 2012

The "total experience" includes both the viewer's subjective apprehension of the object and the "qualities" of the object itself.

John Dewey's *Art as Experience* 2010

The picture is an intentional object, created to convery those "certain valued qualities" that are fully realized in the viewer's encounter with them in the perceived object.

John Dewey's *Art as Experience* 2010

"L for Ladder," a scene from Chandigarh, India, in 1956, is typical of Mr. Ribaud's careful composition, the set of stairs guiding the viewer's eye from the foreground to the back.

Photo-Op: Letters From Afar 2011

But how to judge the average bounds of the Sunday night ITV viewer's ignorance?

Downton Abbey; Whites; DCI Banks; Inspector George Gently; Horizon Phil Hogan 2010