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!
Note: To examine the picture in full size, click on the image, then click again on the words “full resolution.”
I did what you said, enlarged the painting to full resolution. It’s quite somethinh to look at. A nightmare.
Really.
A witch lives in a ruined castle on top of a haunted hill, every day she compounds magic potions and chants incantations that are so loud and unholy and against all nature that the trees die and are burned to a crisp and the smoke whirls in a vortex around the sun, which fights to shine thru and enlighten the people in the village in the valley, except the witches’ evil birds fly in the skiy and whirl the clouds around some more to keep the sun’s rays from entering the Earth’s atmosphere and saving the people. This will happen every day until the queen changes her mind about saving starving children and orphans.
OK I get it, so the sun is behind the clouds and beams of light come through the clouds like straight lines emanating out from the sun itself. Does this explain why children draw a sun with straight lines shooting out from it? It makes sense but still I think in a clear blue sky it would be better to draw concentric lines around the sun, not those childish straight lines. Or for that matter the pointy triangles that you also see in art works on the edge on the sun.
When I said ” it would be better to draw concentric lines around the sun ” I meant concentric circles
There’s a source of light in this picture which is actually kind of spooky and I wonder if it’s part of the story of this picture. Down in the lower left there’s a small dark hill and part of it looks like the head of a dog with its mouth open. Out of the dog’s mouth zooms all this light. What’s that about?
The two splashing frothing waterfalls on the right are just dots that look like the artist flicked droplets of paint from his brush on to the canvas like Jackson Pollack, tho with more control. Which is what the painting is all about I think — highly controlled chaos. Thumbs up. Like!
What fun !!!
It’s funny how the very center of the picture shows a burnt, blackened tree leaning to the left and pointing towards the sun and it just happens to be inside the lines of one of the sun’s rays breaking through the clouds. ……… Artists think of the wildest things !
This picture has so much going on in it that I could stare at it for hours. . The walled village down below suggests violence and enemies but I don’t get the signification of the birds in the sky
i see a lot of browns and the family of blues – teal, blue-green, blue-gray. the painting is mystical and disturbing. Such violent landscape with the rocks jutting up everywhere. Dead trees, brown leaves, gray and brown clouds. Why is the road going over the little hillock at the bottom center lit up, and what is that long grey worm-like pole lying on the ground. it makes me think of a giant snake. Creepy all-in-all