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 embiggen the image, click on it!
BWAH-HAH-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !!!
Once again, sun off-screen and on the left. In a photo. It’s not just paintings. SO interesting !!
The lower left corner is all black shadow. I think that usually someone taking a photograph would adjust the camera angle so there wouldnt’ be a big block of shadow like that. That would be my tendency.
I admire how the shadow extends into the doorway…and into the dark spooked house itself.
The doorway is kind of a tunnel, too.
Hillary Clinton’s and Bernie Sanders’ secret love nest. FOr sure. I just saw them walk in and now they are peaking out the window. Don’t even think of questioning this !!!
Shadows seem to be the thing to think about with this picture. Yes you have the big block of shadow in the lower left corner and it is either flowing into (or flowing out of ?) the tunnel-like doorway. But in the upper right corner you have the sunlight hitting the wall and then you have the bright sky beyond, but the scraggly black shadow of tree branch overlays it all like a skeleton’s bony fingers. You also have the black lace-like bushes in the lower right corner creeping up the side of the building like a grandmother’s funeral veil.
All of this makes me realize that the mood and the beauty is in the eye of the viewer. the comments so far trend toward the spooky atmosphere – but if this was the house you grew up in as a child and if it held many warm memories for you, you’d see this picture differently.
Are we all products of our upbringing?
Is this part of a church? Or some kind of institution? I wonder what the building was originally built for. Where is it? Is it cold inside in the winter? It looks like it doesn’t have insulation, and those windows must be draughty.
the windows on the central bulging part of the building ( is that called a turret ? ) supply their own source of darkness to the photo, darkness that is not shadow, and then you have those three panes in the very middle that look boarded up, but in the picture they stand out as the lightest part of the photo. is the building really as decrepit as it looks ?
I printed this out and my grandson colored it with bright markers. It looks wonderful on my refrigerator!