From Stendhal syndrome to "neo-neanderthal" syndrome

I am speechless, I find all of this very sad.

Look at the girl in the bottom left, with what an expression she is watching them; maybe it's a coincidence and she's actually thinking about something else, but the expression she has at that moment seems almost perfect to describe even a minimal "bewilderment".

"expression", sorry.

...is that they are looking at the photo taken of the painting

... or maybe they are communicating via WhatsApp

Ehhh these kids, always glued to their phones.

But no Frank, they are greedily conducting an online search about the painting and its painter

...or perhaps they are simply telling us that we don't care about this stuff, it's just that they force us to watch them, as they told previous generations. It's just that previous generations didn't have those tools there to ...escape!

I suppose it is a school given the number of kids and the question we should be asking ourselves; it's not so much about how we have come to this, but perhaps to what extent schools truly know how to engage and interest kids in art and more generally in everything.

My great-grandfather spent too much time reading books, my grandfather listened to the radio too much, my father watches too much television, I spend too much time in front of the computer, my son will spend too much time in front of his smartphone, who knows what his son will invent just to avoid admiring Rembrandt

beautiful photo. compliments to the photographer.

i am a bit categorical on this subject.

A smartphone is a window to the outside world from what you have in front of you (whether it be Wikipedia, or your circle of friends...)

And one cannot resist the instinct (need?) to look out.

Try reading a paper book on a chair far from a view towards the outside, and sitting near a window... how many times in the second case do you feel the urge to get distracted and look out.... Even if there is nothing much to see outside.

In Rembrandt's place, there could have been a live show, and instead of the young girls, there could have been adults.

With such a wide and interesting "window" in your hands.. it is almost impossible not to look into it (to look out)

Forgive me too: I didn't mean to say «the paper book» but «a paper book"

I share Luca Cavaliere, and it is almost a duty to bring out (look at the puns, eh) a cliché but appropriate for the context:

to look inside something in order to be able to come out.