A WOMAN at an art exhibition admitted she does not know how long to stand in front of each picture and is having to guess.
Francesca Ryan visited an exhibition at Tate Britain but confessed she was unsure if she had looked at a picture long enough or if she had looked at it for too long.
She said: “I mean I’ve seen it pretty much straight away. That’s the thing with eyes. They’re pretty quick.
“I don’t want to seem ignorant by moving on too fast but I don’t want to look like I don’t get it by moving on too soon, so I tried to do two minutes on each but that’s a long time to look at one thing if it’s not a telly.”
She added: “I realised I was subconsciously looking at the bigger pictures for longer and I’m pretty sure that’s not how art works.”
Ryan’s friend Susan Traherne said: “That’s why I always get an audioguide. It blithers on about expressionist brushstrokes or some shit, but it tells you exactly when to move on.”
