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.”
Yes this is exactly how scorching hot the weather is now. Thanks for posting!
What’s interesting about this picture for me is that the sun is clearly there but it’s not in the picture.
Hot. Dry. The screen itself appears to be in shadow, but check out the blazing white fence on the right. The little posts holding the speakers are like space aliens. They’re not all alike either .
Space aliens….exactly….it’s clear that when you park your cars here for the show the great enormous sky overhead will be overcome by a giant Mother Ship and the individual car speakers will emit a gas that will make the cars’ occupants forget, never remember what movie they were watching as the cars drift slowly upward and then….
It’ makes clear that in Nature there are usually no straight line (eg, the mountain ridges, the fluffy clouds) but human-made things are filled with straight lines – the 4 sides of the movie screen, the posts on the white fence, the posts holing the car speakers, the shadows of the car speaker posts. Very clear.
Space aliens- perfect. There’s so much alien space here
the ground looks so dry and dusty I wonder if great big dust storms kick up on a windy nite and if so how does that effect the view of the movie screen. also when it rains is it just one big mud patch. also do outdoor movies still exist I bet it would be funny to be at one and look at the cars nearby and see people glancing at their cell phones and texting while the movie played. talk about a time warp. !!! also how good is the sound system? the pic is mostly sky. if this is in the middle of nowhere the stars must be more appealing to view then the movie perhaps.
The movie screen, which at night is a major source of light and color, is in this picture a dark monochrome gray. Like the entire photo, in a way.
In terms of the angle the screen is facing, I’d say it mirrors and is parallel to the small mountain chain behind it. If I rotate my laptop counter-clockwise a bit, then my computer screen is at the same angle like the movie screen and the mountains. All three are turning to face the sun, which is off to the left somewhere as Henry suggests.
When I was very little my grandmother would treat my cousins and me to a night at the outdoor cinema during the summers, but my grandfather would drive and fall asleep during the movie, and Gramma would keep slapping him and yelling at him to wake up because he started start to snore. It was one of the few times we’d see the two of them fight.