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!
Don’t go into the house! Even though the sun is shining? Yes! The dark shadow is going to lengthen, and envelope the house! Then all sorts of monsters plus jack nicholson will come out of the closets, out from under the dark staircase, up from the basement, and they will hack you to pieces. Seriously. I mean it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have an old house. You have the shadow of another house in front of it. And there is the partial shadow of the photrographer.
I think Jack Nicholson is taking the picture.
I recognize his shadow. !
An amazing amount of shadow in this picture. It’s interesting because I think most -normal- people would move to get the shadow out of the picture. And especially their own shadow. Here it’s all part of the scene. It makes the house across the street look mor e foreboding. And if this is the afternoon , eventually the shadow is going to reach the house and consume it!!!
This is the kind of house that goes derelict and nobody thinks it’s worth much. Then yuppies buy it , fix it up, and suddenly it’s valued at way over a m illion dollars.
I do so like the detailing along the upper parts of the outside porches.
I also wonder if the plant life along the roadway wall is weed or something upscale like tiger lilies.
The assumption in these comments seems to be that the shadow in the foreground is eventually going to consume the spooky-looking house behind it. But couldn’t it actually be morning, and the shadow will melt away?
I find it intriguing how people writing these comments reveal their inner turmoils based on a picture that may not represent at all what the viewers think and feel.
There are cut-outs in the border over the porch that leave a kind of ” parking sun ” pattern in the border’s shadow along the house wall.