It seems the word picture at the very least used to be used for paintings as well, so it’s more that it’s just an uncommon usage. Maybe the guy is a time traveler.
Or Pictures at an Exhibition (wikipaedia link) by Modest Mussorgsky?
(Especially the Emerson, Lake & Palmer version) (Youtube link)
In the UK at least, “Picture” is totally fine shorthand, even today, to refer to a flat 2D thing that might be put on a wall in a gallery, whether it be a painting, drawing, photograph etc. More formally it would tend towards being a figurative (rather than abstract) work.
My counter argument: The Picture of Dorian Gray
It seems the word picture at the very least used to be used for paintings as well, so it’s more that it’s just an uncommon usage. Maybe the guy is a time traveler.
Or Pictures at an Exhibition (wikipaedia link) by Modest Mussorgsky?
(Especially the Emerson, Lake & Palmer version) (Youtube link)
In the UK at least, “Picture” is totally fine shorthand, even today, to refer to a flat 2D thing that might be put on a wall in a gallery, whether it be a painting, drawing, photograph etc. More formally it would tend towards being a figurative (rather than abstract) work.