The picture is filled with humor, the images of two arguing men cause a smile.
Alone, the cook is most likely a practitioner, he sits firmly in his chair and this indicates his firm position in the argument. The second, timid theorist, sits on the very edge of the stool, feeling not very confident in his evidence.
The humor of the picture lies in the fact that, according to the law of the genre, the practitioner must be a materialist, and the theorist an idealist.
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