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Street musicians mid-performance, instruments raised, a small audience forming around them the way crowds do — gradually, then all at once. Czimber captures the moment just before everyone in the scene is fully paying attention, which is a harder thing to paint than the performance itself. The architecture behind them places it in a specific kind of European square: old, lived-in, built for exactly this sort of impromptu gathering.