Wollheim's main claim is that we are simultaneously aware of both the surface and the depicted object.
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Decentrism is an artistic concept postulating placement of the central part of depicted object somewhere outside the work's borders, from which place the object dominates the depicted surrounding.
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Of course, the copyright status of the object depicted, e.g. a painting, must be considered independently.
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The object depicted is a DualShock video game controller.
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Yet the object depicted quite simply is the picture surface under one reading, the surface indifferent to picture, another.
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Mujaku is depicted as a thin man manipulating some sort of holy, cloth-wrapped object.
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When uncloaked, as depicted in the first image, light waves strike the object and bounce backward.
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The Egyptians protested its removal, and in the United States Americans petitioned against installing the thing, a strange object which newspapers depicted as an inexplicable extravagance.
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In his works Chevreul advised artists that they should not just paint the color of the object being depicted, but rather they should add colors and make appropriate adjustments to achieve a harmony.