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!
Digging for clams!
It’ss funny but Keshia is right. The tide is out, the sand is wet, one group of people have some sort of gizmo that might be used for collecting clams pr maybe crabs. Yet what is strange is it looks like the ladies have long dresses down to their ankles. Aren’t the hemlines and lower parts going to get wet and sandy ? I’ve never even thought of that before.
The sun is setting (rising?) off screen and to the left. Three boats are parked on the horizon. The two closest to shore aren’t going anywhere because their sails are furled. Yes the tide is out because you can see the people’s reflections in the wet sand. The people are gathered in groups.
The three people closest to us form a vertical oreo cookie. Black, white, black.
I don’t understand the upper right quadrant. There seem to be extraneous lines there. Rain? And something else.
The colors make me remember my old Venus paint-by-number coloring pencils.
i’ hAVE LIVE MY ENTIR E LIFE , NEVER ONCE BEEN TO A OCEAN OR A BEAC H !!! i DONT’ GET WHY PEOPLE LOVE IT ………. i gUESS YOU HAD TO BE THERE !!!!!
A dark blue disk-like cloud hovers over the people on the beach. Methinks: space alien UFO.
I don’t know. It looks to me like there’s a mystical purple crystal ice palace rising up in the sky on the far right.
Does anybody else see that?
In general it seems the whole right side of the picture is darker and claustrophobic (the purple ice palace in the sky, the rising brown rocky cliff in the bottom right corner), and the left side of the picture is more open and light.
The humans, for the most part, are on the right side, wedged in under the dark cloud and the rising rocky cliff..
I agree with Afua. There’s something strange in the air on the right, looks like faint outlines of large crystals.
There’s a cold feeling to this picture. Not ready for summer beach life at all.