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What it’s like to stare at a painting for a full hour | Learn the phrasal verb ‘run out’

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The Garden of Le Mathrin at Pontoise

The garden of la mathren at pontoise, painted in 18 76 by camille pisarro. It's an oil painting on a large canvas about 165 centimeters across by 113 centimeters high. After 11 minutes, i thought i had seen everything. So what was i going to do for the next forty nine minutes? Well then i decided to look at what i was seeing and study why i was seeing it. And i came to appreciate the planning, the techniques, the care that the artist put into his work.

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