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!
Note: To examine the picture in full size, click on the image, then click again on the words “full resolution.”
trees – vertical. Monet’s signature – horizontal.
I’m right that it’s Monet, correct ?
Four siblings grew up tall and straight beside a lake – they never bent no matter what went down – sisters they were cast aside by a burly,, surly witch of a mother – who’d just as surely smother them under a pillow or shovel them under a willow – but they flourished on their own beside a lake – a zone of serenity with plenty of amenities – fresh sweet water, friendly fleet otters, a fleet of friendly boaters – and meanwhile their mother, mean (why?), married another, an oak who next day croaked – the mother sobbed and felt robbed – but the sisters stood still, stayed straight, STOP STARING!!!!!
Monet knew what to say.
The sunlight is hitting the trees in the background but these four are in shadow.
The two trees on either end are rather straight up and down but the two in the middle have bends and curves in them. Interesting
I love the pastel colors and soft brush strokes
An interesting composition as well as a gorgeous color palette. Enough said.
I don’t understand this picture at all. It’s pretty and that’s all….
It’s pretty because of the colors and style but that’s it
The four horsemen of death!
At least these trees don’t spoil the view! My wife would have me cut them down if they did. .
What made the artist decide to paint what are basically four vertical lines ? What kind of trees are these that have tiny leaf clusters growing on their trunks ? If we could see farther up the trees would we see branches spreading outwards and more foliage ? Is that part of the ” message ” here, that we are only looking at the trunks and not what you usually stare at, that is, the leaves and branches ?
I would *love* to see this in real life and stare at it. I *love* the color mixtures.
Is Paulette saying “stop staring” because the trees are tired of being on a wall in a musuem and resent museum -goers staring at them? An art museum is like a public zoo in a way, humans walking aimlessly, stopping and staring. Staring. Staring some more.
The beautiful paintings must get so bored. Is that what you mean, Paulette?