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What runs through your mind when you see this picture?

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What feelings and thoughts run through your mind when you see this picture:


Villers_Young_Woman_Drawing.jpg




How does this picture make you feel? What does it make you think of?

And what is the very first thing you thought when you saw this picture?
 

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What feelings and thoughts run through your mind when you see this picture:


Villers_Young_Woman_Drawing.jpg




How does this picture make you feel? What does it make you think of?

And what is the very first thing you thought when you saw this picture?

The light is wrong; there is a light source hidden behind the board or else she is holding a mirror.

She has a pencil in her hair.

She is wearing a very impractical dress for sketching in. It will get ruined.

She will get backache sitting like that. She needs an easel.

The subject appears to be Regency, but the style looks far more modern.

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What I see in the painting is an attractive female artist who is sketching someone. Outside a window is a romantic couple.

Since that someone is in front of her and not in the painting, I imagine that she's sketching me. And since there is a hint of romance in the painting, perhaps I'm even posing for her nude.

I get the impression that she is creative, and she has intelligent, aware eyes.

My feeling is one of sexual and romantic attraction for her, since I like creative, intelligent women.


eudaimonia,

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And what is the very first thing you thought when you saw this picture?

"Is the window broken?"

Also, the woman looks a bit tired. She should take a break; sitting like that can't be too comfortable.
 
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Is there a philosophical point to this thread? Not that I mind an art thread, but I'm curious why this painting was shown, and why the particular questions.


eudaimonia,

Mark
 
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How does this picture make you feel? Sad, happy, confused. She looks sad/tired, poor thing :(

What does it make you think of? Food.. Summer, Love, paint, drawings, love. mirrors, windows..

And what is the very first thing you thought when you saw this picture? Awe, there's a couple outside!
She looks sad, and.. is she drawing me?

(all going through my head, hard to tell which one came first haha)
 
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And what is the very first thing you thought when you saw this picture?

My first thought is that there are no creepy alien spacecraft in the sky behind the woman. ^_^ I recently saw the Ancient Aliens episode that focuses on Da Vinci and there are some strange backgrounds to some Renaissance paintings.

That is a pretty painting :)
 
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