An image is incredibly capable of bugging our mind, isn't it? On the internet, we can easily see some critical paintings that can cause some discomfort, when we don't get that feeling that something was premeditated for centuries. Most of these images have some degree of optical illusion.
In this case, Twitter browsers were surprised by a painting from 1860. The image of a girl running with a supposed iPhone in her hand, even before Apple came along, was something appalling. So does this mean that our ancestors had cell phones as good as ours?
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1860s painting of girl holding iPhone
Internet baffled by woman appearing to hold an iPhone in an 1860 painting https://t.co/NTIbPlwLcspic.twitter.com/HTfzWDOu9y
— New York Post (@nypost) April 28, 2023
Are you going to say you didn't see the same? You can tell the truth! We know that the image leads us to a single direction even before we think about any possibility. A young woman running with an iPhone in Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller's painting “The Expected One” left Twitter users a little uncomfortable.
However, many did not expect that the object portrayed in the girl's hand is a… book! Yes, it is one of those books that tell a story, have letters and use words! Apparently, technology has not only changed our habits, many of which have been replaced by digital devices.
Technologies are also capable of changing our perception of the world and even of this painting from 1860.
But it's not, it's a small bible many books in the mid-1800s were made to carry in the palm of the hand pic.twitter.com/ZLZiH3zUh6
— The Daily News Opinion 👲🚲🗞️ (@TheDailyPretzel) April 28, 2023
One user was keen to explain that, at that time, Bibles were manufactured to fit only one hand, which configures exactly how this young girl was portrayed by the painter. Ironically, one user responded to the post by saying that people carried the books in their hands.
In a critical and real tone, smartphones are capable of changing the way we see the world. And, no, there was no iPhone in 1860!
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