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!
Cool!
I just want to say that it’s fascinating to click on this painting and blow it up on your computer screen. It zooms in so closely to tiny sections of the painting, and when you look at whatever section you’ve zoomed in on, all you see are swirly smears of paint. Nothing looks like a pool of clear water with rocks and grasses. Just smears. They appear almost random.
The artist who painted this probably saw the painting in both terms: the smears, and the overall image of a delicious rock pool of cool, clear water.
Some of this painting looks like a photograph, which is something I always find impressive, that a painter can paint so realistically.
it’s a very, very enticing scene, too. I want to take my shoes off and sit with my feet in the water.
i wonder if there are any turtles, salamanders, or tiny fish there. Maybe a snake! A good snake, of course !!!
I don’t see any little fishies in the water. Maybe they got scared away by the big artist’s easel.
My grandchildren oooh-ed and awwww-ed when I showed them this picture!