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While most art, act like an "identity card", telling us that "this is Venice" or "that is a sad little girl", Guardi has painted a Venice, Sartre assures us, which no one has ever seen but everyone has felt, and Picasso has given us an objective image of sadness whose "sens" we can feel even though the young girl he makes present in his painting does not exist. Dudley Andrew, André Bazin , p. 63.