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 that makes you say that?
- What more can you find?
If you have another idea, run with it.
Note: To embiggen the image, click on it!
Impressive. I see a lot of pink swirling around above , and some purplish grayish dark below. Is this a real mountain ? Would people actually want to climb it ? I see a small pointed rock at the bottom of the picture that is kind of a replication of the mountain itself . the clouds are swirling in a circle around the peak.
It’s is a little too pink for my liking . Sorry !!!
1. I see a waterfall and stream in the lower left and it makes me wonder if this water is the source of the clouds circling the mountain peak. I know it probably isn’t but the position of everything in the painting makes me think so.
2. As is typical of the artwork in this Thursday series, the sun is “parked” off screen and to the left. Again!
By the by, amazing color work within this painting. ..
iF I Lived NEar THIS Mountain I WoulD FIND A WAY TO The TOPP !!!!aLone or With HeLp !!!!!!!!
Looks like a big slab of ice cream.
“What is going on in this picture?” The sun is lighting up the left side of the mountain. The clouds are glowing pink gray and purple. The clouds do not block the viewer’s view of the mountain’s peak, but instead they sort of frame it. Yes, there is a rock jutting up in the lower foreground that hints at the same shape as the monstrous mountain behind it. Water enters the picture by way of a brook and small waterfall in the lower left corner. The water flows down into a valley and seems to make a connection with a larger river farther down in the valley. The brook flows past some huts a kind of village where humans live. It looks like the humans farm the land around the huts. Or maybe not. Maybe the humans raise cattle because I can see a fence running through a field.
“What do you see that makes you say that?” Everything I see in the picture.
“What more can you find?” Nothing.
I see something strange ; namely , that the str eam , as it flows down towards the villege , it reflects the light flashing off the mountains’ snows , and it makes the stream radiant , like shiny brass or gold …… It makes the stream look like golden mud . !
The tall dark pine trees on the left form a kind of peak of their own that mirrors the main peak in the background, which glows. And, as other peo-le wrote there is that slab of dark rock at the bottom of the picture, another mirror image of the main peak. And, behind that slab of dark rock is a small hill that also hints at the grand peak to come.
The colors of this picture make me think of a Disney cartoon. The detailing, of course is much better than what Disney would do. Its funny to think about comparing this work of art to Disney, because the flaws in Disney stand out in the contrast. At least in terms of setting. Setting in Disney cartoons is minimal and secondary. Setting in a painting is everything.