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!
In a word, “precarious”.
I see a rickety bridge crossing from a dark rock to a rock in the sunlight. Where was this painted and how long ago?
Something is at the bottom of the ravine. People. Deer. Mountain goats. I can not tell. The picture makes me think of building bridges to the clouds. Also most of the trestles, the uprights, are single poles but the center one is a ladder. Everything is both calm and fearful. The picture my daughter would say is cray-cray.
THIS IS NOT A BRIDGE FOR SOMEONE WITH PARKINSON’S DISEASE!!! THIS IS NOT A BRIDGE FOR SOMEONE WITH PARKINSON’S DISEASE!!! THIS IS NOT A BRIDGE FOR SOMEONE WITH PARKINSON’S DISEASE!!! THIS IS NOT A BRIDGE FOR SOMEONE WITH PARKINSON’S DISEASE!!! Are you crazy????
The clouds are piling up on the right. The sky is clear on the left, where the sunshine is. The part of th e bridge on the left has a hand railing, however the handrailing is broken/ nonexistant on the right where the clouds are. At least until you get closer to the landing on t he right. . you have gray clouds in shadow on the upper right quadrant, but in the lower right section you have stone in sunlightt. On the left half of the picture its the reverse, the upper left quadrant has the light, the rose/ peach light, but the lower left quadrant is the darkest part of all.
BTW thank you for the strange picture. It is sort of haunting.
Natalie , It’s the Three Billy Goats Gruff.
This is another painting where there are no strictly verticle or horizontal lines. Everthing is on a slant. Diagonal. The angle of the rock cliffs forming a V, the sloping mountains in the distance, the sloping bridge, the almost vertical yet still diagonal posts that hold up the bridge. The edge of the clouds.