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!
the sun is hiding behind the clouds. I don’t know who the giant is or why someone is standing on his shoulders. There a re people in the clouds..who are t hey? The picture is mostly dark but where the sun is hiding the white clouds are almost luminescent bringing or meaning hope. Generally I find this picture disconcerting.
I also noticed that there is a second source of light to the lower left of the frame causing horizontal shadows in the foregroudn.
Would like to know what story this is and who painted it. I know you want me to just comment on the picture. For me the clouds look like loose white grapes or a bunch of balloons loosely tied in an arc as if for a wedding. Yet they are also gray, so what is the artist saying. This is like a lot of traditional landscape paintings where you have a dead tree trunk or two in the foreground and a source of light beckoning in the distance. The whole scene with the tiny people and the giant is really weird. Thanks for helping me forget about being a Parkie for a moment.