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 examine the picture in full size, click on the image.
You have to blow this up on a big computer screen to see there are two tiny waterfalls, maybe three, off in the distance.
Also there is a man and a dog climbing up the cliff on the lower right side, but they blend in almost completely with the rock wall. And there is a cabin in the valley on the lower right with smoke coming out of the chimney. I had to use the magnifying glass feature on my computer to see this. It’s pretty brilliant to study this painting up close.
I find it unusual that the sun is right there in the middle of the picture but you can’t really see it.
Lordy! The man and the dog are almost impossible to see !!! And I think the man has a gun. Such an indistinct tiny image in a painting that seems to b e about heat and dryness with water barely a glimmer in the distance .
I can’t see the hunter nor the dog. I do see the cabin with the smoking chimney. The earth looks so hot and dry I worry about forrest fires and the thousands of acres that are enflamed right now out West. The water in this picture is so far away and tiny that if a spark flew loose from the chimney everything in this hot dry withered landscape would burn up in a flash.
The mystery hunter is in the lower left corner, not the lower right. I agree it’s almost impossible to see him, as is the dog.
The lip of each waterfall is like a silver triangle of mercury.
It’s hard to be happy with Nature when you look at this painting. It’s uncomfortable.
The hunter is almost invisible. He doesn’t realize it but when he shoots his gun from the cliff’s ledge a spark from the gunpowder will shoot out and create a conflagration that will burn up the entire valley, the cabin, the trees, the frame around the picture, the museum it hangs in, the computer wires for anyone looking at this online and then smoke will shoot out of your smart phone your computer, followed by a wall of flames pouring down on us all like Niagra. Then we’ll all die and won’t have to g o to hell because we’re already there burning burning burning to a crisp over and over…..
Sweet jesus I need a glass of H2O ….