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!
When you enlarge the picture by clicking on it, you see there are cracks all over the painting, just like last week’s. What is it with these painting cracks? I find them strange because they make me more aware of the painting’s surface, that it’s a constructed flat object of pigmented oils, than I am aware of the scene the painter is trying to convey. If you just look at the picture and ignore the cracks, you see a world has been created, with objects, light, shadow and depth.
This is an interesting picture because there seems to be natural sunlight pouring down from the above in front, thus indicating day time. But at the back of the picture it opens up to show a landscape based in darkness. IS this the Netherworld????
This painting creeps me out, man! I see what the other guy means about the cracks in the painting’s surface when you ” embiggen ” it but there are cracks already in the scene. The floor tiles are cracked and the walls are chipped and there is rubble and what looks like spider webs or cob webs, it all looks in shambles. And then the dark valley in the distance with what looks like water pouring sinisterly over a dam….
Creepy !!!
Where’s the sunshine ??????
Actually if you squint your eyes which someone else suggested on this site a long long time ago, you’ll see that this is not an underground cave or tomb illuminated by a sky light BUT IT IS THE MOUTH OF A DRAGON WITH TWO TUSK-LIKE FANGS and in the background you can see down the dragon’s gullet to where the stomach juices are churning and THAT IS WHERE EVERYONE IS HEADED so be careful and maybe it will be better if we all move on to another picture AT LEAST THAT IS WHAT I AM DOING MYSELF so….
so…..