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 embiggen the image, click on it!
Late fall warm climate barbecue party funhouse!!!
The roof is darker than the main part of the house. So many shadows on it.
Nice watercolor.
Not only barbecue but a keg of beer ! I could do with that .
Dear All,
I like this very colorful and ” splashy ” picture. I see a couch on the porch by the purple front door and I would very much like to sit in it and relax. The weather appears warm but not too hot. I like that.
There are no people in this picture so I wonder where they are and what they are doing. Maybe they are away at church.
Sincerely,
Collin
The picture seems like fall to my eyes because the t rees are mostly branches. Not so many leaves. The picture gives me a good feeling, such as am I a new woman today? Am I fresh and bright? Do I have any reason to be upset with anything? No. Absolutely not.
Lovely.
This is the frat house that was just disbanded by the University of Western Florida’s Peachtree Plaza campus, on account of a hazing incident where pledges had to super glue their tongues together and then go audition for the lead role in “The Music Man”, singing 76 Trombones in two-part harmony. They couldn’t sing on key. That was the shame of it all. Dogs up and down the peninsula howled in abeyance. Now the house is being taken over by pastel, daytime soap opera ghosts who love broadway musicals and can get any part they want !!!!!!!
This is a very pleasant picture to look at. However, it’s also very busy with all the splashes of color and so many details to the house.
I agree with the other comment that the roof is dark and shadow-y. It rather flips the painting on its head, as usually I think the eye or mind expects the dark brown colors to be in the lower half of a picture (the earth) and the lighter pastels to be in the upper half (the clouds and sky). In this painting we have the normal order reversed.
One question that comes to my mind: What are the two diagonal rope-like lines in the lower left quadrant? They appear to be a rope looped around the 2nd floor balcony and perhaps the tree. What’s their purpose? To keep the house from collapsing backwards? I don’t get it.
Also, look at the panes of glass in the window above the couch. Are the uppermost panes dark because they’re broken? Is the house abandoned? Or are they dark because of the shadows?
The picture has a derelict quality….even though it’s very pretty.
Looks like a vanilla layer cake with chocolate icing?
The house looks gay and welcoming but it’s hidden behind trees that come between the house and the viewer. You have to go past the barrier trees before you get to the house itself.