![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNOh0yUsWVdfC_1LaAurWqmr51v1HuUm8I-ZgrbLQT1cN6Zd8go-FKxW6T0GCq8lL_T1tFa0vN7wIBZHB87-qLfGhuVCErezQJ8gRwHiLxgsOLxcnKENq6rl-saeOIyJz04mT5jLk5IKsL/w639-h640/Jill+Mulleady+at+Gladstone+Gallery.jpg)
(link)
Narrative/figurative painting is so encumbered with its history that starts with phantasmagoria, with ghosts. Painting is its ghost - not so much has cultural baggage as is cultural baggage. A history paintings stir reflections on its surface. And you see something in it.
See too: "Watermelon Theory"