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 that makes you say that?
- What more can you find?
If you have another idea, run with it.
Note: To embiggen the image, click on it!
What I see “happening” in this photo —-
1. Sun is shining brightly;
2. Shadows fall sharply;
3. Thickly-applied paint looks ready to peel off;
4. Something you can not see above the picture is throwing shade on to the top part of the photo; and
5. Some surfaces are shining more brightly than others. By which I mean to say, apparently not everything is painted the same flat white.
Two aliens from the planet Sokomorta are locked in a romantic embrace for all eternity because they started fooling around in the dark and then the sun rose and they are allergic to sun AND to roses and they froze like frozen roses and will never move an iota again in all eternity but they don’t really care because love is ETERNAL even though their families and coworkers are missing them aplenty back home in Sokomorta.
End.
If I combine the comments posted by Paulette and Lauren, I’d say that nothing is really “going on” in this photo except for the sun beating down on some convoluted pipes, bolts and metal handles and walls. Yet the impression is that things a re “frozen” in place, even in the heat of the sun. Fascinating.
When I saw this photo, I laughed. It’s so funny.
As I look at it, I also think its funny that most of the “action” in the photo is on the right side. The two vertical pipes are not in the very center. They are to the right of the center.
There’s very little happening on the left side.
Agree with Henry , the majority of the “action” is taking place in the right portion of the photo; expecially the upper right part .
Yet if the sun beatin gdown on everything is a form of “action”, then the left side of the picture is more active because it shows fewer shadows.
Does “shadows” mean there is no action at that point ?
What fun !!! On the upper left I see a handle sticking out of the wall, and the shadow it makes falls down , of course, and to the RIGHT.
But on the right side of the picture I see another handle sticking out of the wall. This time the shadow is angled to the LEFT.
so, Mr. Parking Suns, how many suns are we talking about?
It sounds like a revolution !!!!! Love it !!!