Something that really caught my attention from this week’s reading was Greensbergs’s concept of depth, flatness, and self-criticism. First, Caillebotte’s Pont de l’Europe shows how Impressionist used spatial depth to invite the spectator to enter into the picture and engage in appropriate imaginative activity or “reading-in” the painting. Furthermore, the painters’ challenge to create images with a three-dimensional effect on a flat surface, is what Greemberg view as an opportunity to override the medium and introduce the concept of flatness into modern painting. Painting are flat by nature, hence, the acknowledgement of this flatness is something that abstract paintings, such as Impressionist, introduce to the viewers. Finally, self-criticism,
