Every Thursday, as part of my personal “enriched environment” initiative, I post a piece of art, usually from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which recently released online some 400,000 high-resolution images of its collection. I won’t name the piece or the artist, but instead invite you to study the image and write a comment about what you see or what it makes you think of. All images will have a sun (or sunlight) in them somewhere.
So study the picture, and leave your reflections below!
I don’t know whether I want to drink this tall cool one or swim in it.
The sun is almost a non-entity in this painting. Did the artist leave the canvas blank there or paint an actual white dot – I’ll never know. Who are the people or birds in the goblet and at its base? What is the chunky black thing in the lower left corner? it looks like one of my son’s Transformer toys from long ago.
I could swim circles around that thing!
This is a goblet filled with all the dopamine that Parkies don’t produce any more. And it’s leaking and, or overflowing. How can we band together, scale that thing, and drink the elixir of all elixirs?!
I can’t tell what the rim of the goblet is supposed to be made of, moss or some other kind of vegetation? Is it the same stuff that encircles the base? Is the water falling out of the goblet intentional or due to some cracks? I note, too, that water – or whatever the liquid is – has gathered in the goblet’s base and is spilling out to create a waterfall. The goblet must be spring fed, as it’s overflowing and there are no rain clouds around. As one of the other commenters wrote, the sun is there but not there. It’s just a white dot in the haze. I didn’t see it at first.
Bizarre!
It’s so hot today that I want to swim in it
Today is even hotter so I want to take a dip in that goblet even more !!!