Granted, museums help patrons understand art when they explain an artist’s past, or a painting’s historical background.

Source: https://vdare.com/articles/memo-from-middle-america-great-replacement-of-the-historic-american-nation-on-display-in-the-ozarks

Guernica scholar Anthony Blunt separates the painting’s central pyramid into two groups: the first containing the bull, horse and bird, the second with a dead soldier and various women in different manifestations of grief.

Source: https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2023/04/09/picassos-guernica-revisited-the-malagueno-artists-perplexing-masterpiece/

Its swelling three-dimensional illusion also easily flips into the appearance of an indentation into the painting’s flat surface.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-01-06/transcendental-painting-show-lacma-review

The painting’s real name — “Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq” — became “The Night Watch” in the 18th century, in part due to its heavy varnish coating and the passage of time.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/12/19/x-rays-reveal-unusual-technique-hidden-in-rembrandts-the-night-watch/