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. All artwork will show a sun (or sunlight) somewhere.
I won’t name the piece or the artist, but instead invite you to study the art and post a comment addressing one or more of these questions:
- What is going on in this picture?
- What do you see in the picture?
- What does it make you think of?
- What observations can you make?
Note: To examine the picture in full size, click on the image.
If’ we’re supposed to talk about the sunlight in this picture, I see it in the clouds, in the middle of the picture. And I see it on the horizon, in the middle of the ppicture, on what looks like the tower of a church or a meeting hall. I can’t really tell. And also yes, I see two white birds in the sky, that the sun seems to be hittingk, or maybe I see three white birds with the sun on them? That’s very interesting, I think.
It rained outside my home in NJ, all yesterday and last night, so this picture fits right in. I look at the picture, and its dreary colors. And also yes, I look out my window, and the street outside is dreary.
The sun will come back another day !!!
I am finding it funny that last week the picture was about boys raising cattle, just to butcher them, and here, I guess, the turkeys are going to be butchered, too, there are so many and yet, they don’t seem to pay attention to the human with them.
Do you uses the word ” butcher ” for killing any animal, to be eaten? Or just big animals like cows. Do you “butcher” a fish , for example?
Thank you once again! This picture is something like the phrase “herding cats” but here someone in a hooded cape is herding turkeys! Does that really happen? I also also see white birds and black birds flying in the sky. I know that happens ! And, they are free !
Thanksgiving is coming soon. Yum!
Thank you !
SICK!!!!! The fact that you have to mix a sacred Holliday Tkanksgiving and I mean the turkey s about to be slaughtered, with spookey Halloween , that comes this week!!!!!!! SICK but I think cool I guess I get it. Right. !!!??
Ok I see now. The Grim Reaper is about to take these turkeys to market and choppy chop their heads off. This happens every Halloween . The pile of stick s suggest s they’ll all be burned , a conflagration. I love that you mixed the two holiday s to get her because you know what? It Is not even Halloween yet and my drug store and supermarket already have been selling Christmas stuff, leaping over Thanksgiving! !!!
Halloween – Thanksgiving. – Christmas. ??? They’re just one extended celebration! Father. – Parking Sun. – Holy Ghost !!!!!!!
Hi, everyone.
This is my first time to write here but I saw some of these pages before.
There are two things that I find of note in this picture.
Firstly, whenn I enlarge the picture on my big computer screen and apply the magnifying glass thing to it, the turkeys don’t look like turkeys in the close up. Instead they just brown brush strokes that go around in a circle, with a few suggestive brush strokes for the head and legs. They really aren’t turkeys when you look at them closely.
Secondly, that seems to be a Grim Reaper figure with them. And if you look at the ground below him in the picture, you’ll see that it’s like a dark hole, like he’s emerging from the ground. I guess from the Underworld.
I just now also noticed that the shining white birds in the sky on the upper right match up with dabs of white grass blades on the ground on the lower right side.
Too, I agree with Lucia who says that she didn’t think you could herd turkeys. Can you herd turkeys? WIth a switch like the person has in the picture?
I think I could write alot more if I had the time.
Yours truly,
Collin
These may be turkeys but they also make me think of buzzards. Can anyone verify if these are really turkeys or buzzards (vultures)? It changes the meaning of the painting.
Once again if you examine the painting in close up you can see, at the edges, where the “reality” of the painting ends and the “reality” of the plain canvas and wooden frame begins.
It’s funny that people usually look at the center of the painting for its reality, yet the reality at the edge where the paint leaves off and the regular canvas shows is also worthwhile to think about.