This photo is not a painting although it looks like a painting. Its the Painted Desert in Arizona.
Just because something appears to be something, does that mean that it really is that thing?
How we see things is determined by all our previous experiences combined. It is because of that, we cannot see every perspective of something, no matter how hard we try.
We can see something today and think one way about it, and a year down the road, we would think differently about it.
If someone never knew of the Painted Desert, they may look at this photo and see it as a painting. But a painting it is not, only in that person's mind because they have seen paintings before and this is similar to their experience.
