Monday, December 7, 2009

The Picture hmm (Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window)


The picture in this drawing to me represents a poor or homeless woman in a place like a hospital, or for those people who can’t afford a home. I got this idea mostly by the objects around her like the curtains and the bed. It doesn’t show much of anything else and only those, thus assuming she don’t have a fancy life with a lavish life style. All she need is a bed and a small space/shelter for her to live in. The curtains is one of the big things that made me think to what she is or her lifestyle, because it shows that only a small piece of room belongs to her in a place for homeless people or like a hospital. Also shows her own privacy like one of those hospital rooms that I referred to, where you typically see patients in a room together separated with curtains to close for their own privacy.
The woman in the picture is of course sad (well that’s what I think), looking down at an old wrinkle paper/letter. Of course that paper could be anything at all to the viewers and make them guess on what it is. You don’t have enough proof to what it is other than the expression of the woman’s face and possibly where she standing. Now this is just pure imagination from my head that I gathered information from what I just saw in this picture. The paper/letter that I’m guessing is from her husband probably from war or a letter saying that her husband was killed. I came up with this answer mostly because it’s pretty common in these kinds of pictures where you see a person facing toward the window and reading the letter. Also by where she standing can mean a lot of things, by facing toward the window might mean something involving with the outside world like a war, and if it’s something else not including the outside, she could be facing inside the room or sitting on a chair reading it.
The unorganized/fallen apples on the bed (I think it’s a bed) can also mean that the woman is in shocked after seeing the paper in her hand which shows her expression to the picture. It can give you an image of what happen before she realize the paper and when she does, dropping all the apples on the bed after reading all that was said on the paper/letter.
I like these kinds of pictures because it makes you guess on why the woman is sad, and all the surroundings around her might mean something. It gives you a lot of ideas that you could come up with this painting, and mostly everyone's opinion is different from each other.

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