What do you see when you really take the time to look at a work of art? What occurs in the intersubjective field between viewer and painting, artist and model, viewer and artist? The author examines the impact that deep, sustained, personal engagement with a specific work of art can generate, deriving from an imaginary dialogue between viewer and artist. The actual work of art functions as both a transitional object and a transformational object. The emphasis here is on the potential, intuited, and imagined conversation as it moves from the work's surface to the deepest layers of both artist's and viewer's psyches, requiring a radically subjective perspective. The focus of this particular investigation is on two late-nineteenth-century paintings, the well-known A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Edouard Manet and the more obscure The Eternal Feminine by Paul Cezanne.