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!
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OK it looks really hot with very high temperatures. I feel like having a frozen margarita in one hand and a soft serve ice cream cone in the other. And a bench to sit on.
Mystery. … !
You have the white hot sunlight above, and the dark trench down below. And a black blotch at the far end of the trench, plus another black blotch peeping over the wall above the door on the left. Mystery. It’s mystery in a world awash in light.
Actually, when I look at it I see that the sky is a light gray and the building on the right is the whitest and the hottest. Another mystery.
Is this out west or in Mexico somewhere, or perhaps northern Africa? I like how the painting is all “roughly ” geometric shapes. And yes, it really makes me feel the heat. It’s uncomfortable, isn’t it.
Kids are going to play hide and seek on a hot day and they;;re all hiding someplace else where its cooler.
Two doorways and an alley that goes around the corner. Which would you choose?
i think its in Arizona., or some place hot, in a ghost town because it feel’s empty as like people left it in a hurry and never coming back . global warning is happening every where. they just dig the ditch and go away quick .
Bleak and barren, but the door in sunlight has an inviting patch of green in front of it. I’m going inside…
I think northern Africa. Not sure where though. As someone wrote already, the top half of the painting are rough geometric shapes. it’s the bottom half that I’m interested in. Whoever walks out the door on the left is going to fall right in the ditch.
The foundation of the house on the right continues down into the ditch. Then it looks like below that the ditch is digging under the foundation. I remember in last week’s comments somebody started thinking that pictures at least some of them, tell a story or have a message. In this picture is there a message about ditches and trenches undermining a house foundation?
I don’t know how to follow after these comments! But I notice that there are different degrees of darkness to the shade. The shade or shadow? of the far back wall where the alley is is darker than the shade/ shadow of the wall of the building on the right. Even though above the shadow line where the sun is, the paint color and light are almost the same.
And here is something nobody noticed; there are no windows !!! Just walls, two doors, and a trench. Why did the artist decide to paint a painting about a trench …. !?