Abstract Art as Telepathy.

Some artists render images so relaistically that there is no mistaking the analogue. Other artists, on the other hand, will reduce and refine their response to the ubiquitous bowl of fruit to such a high degree of abstraction that it is less of an illustration and more of an attempt at telepathy.

For someone with no arty education to stand in front of a canvas painted solid yellow and somehow divine that the artist intended it to depict the crucifixion of Christ* would indeed be an extraordinary thing.

*That painting (not mine) happened in Art School...