Pink Butterfly wrote in post #15856193
And the button-tufted upholstery on the walls and the flaking dirty floor doesn't look fake?? As strange as a padded-upholstered wall is, it is clean and looks new.
Virtually ANY choice of a floor surface would have provided contextual consistency if it was also clean and gave the appearance of being new. Photo-realism may not be entirely important here, but some things just don't make sense. Might as well use a simulated grassy field, and put some sun-flare in the back ground. ... It would make equally no sense, but heck, people seem to like that.
Indeed. Some interesting reactions to this particular image. The unexpected and, to many, uncomfortable juxtaposing of the happy baby in the wedding dress with the filthy, flaking floor and bordello wall treatment seems to align with definitions of cognitive dissonance:
"Cognitive dissonance theory explains human behavior by positing that people have a bias to seek consonance between their expectations and reality. According to Festinger, people engage in a process he termed 'dissonance reduction', which can be achieved in one of three ways: lowering the importance of one of the discordant factors, adding consonant elements, or changing one of the dissonant factors"
There isn't any consonance between my expectations of what this scene should reasonably look like and the "reality" depicted in the image. In this case, I think "dissonance reduction" could be achieved by changing the filthy, flaking floor dissonant factor to something more in keeping with the bordello wall treatment. An orange shag rug, perhaps.
But the little girl is pretty.
