Hi gang.

I'm trying to get on with my dissertation - but no, I'm not asking you to do the work for me. I could just use a hand in working out what's actually in this image. Here's the largest version I could find:



What I want to know is, what do you think is going on in that lighter patch in the middle foreground, on the left? I'm not asking for analysis here, that's for me to work out (I don't want no plagiarism in my dissertation!! ) ; I just want to make sure that, factually, that the landscape is what it is since I can't afford a trip to Liverpool to go and look at the painting myself. I think that the lighter area is a gap that looks onto a river, and the central area, where the white cloud is peeking behind from, is a waterfall that rushes down to said river.

Are you guys seeing the same thing? I just don't want to go writing garbage about stuff that isn't there.

bigger image:

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/online/...ned1024x768.jpg

thank you gokou

That has helped splendiforously!

I think it is a continuation of the cliffs behind it. Looks like the horse was going to the water by it and saw the lion and shit itself

It looks like waterfall mist to me.

It's part of the landscape with a river running below it. You can see that the rocks in that section of the landscape run at an angle, as if they're granite along with cracks.

Avoiding me, are you?

Pretty much, yeah.


You're right there... but is the waterfall that big cliff thing or is it a smaller, more horizontal one from behind the rock?


Yes, that bit is really confusing me now. :| It does look like cliffs, but it does look foamy at points, like a waterfall. I suppose I'll avoid mentioning it. Blimmin' Stubbs...


YES



....nope, j/k. I'd love to come to Liverpool and look at paintings of angry lions and scared horses with you. But I have enough train tickets to buy and not enough money to buy them with. One day when we finally visit you guys (maybe the summer after I graduate, I guess, if you're still there) we should go to that gallery.

Still, thanks guys! Still not sure about the cliff/waterfall thing, but I'll just have to not be too specific there.

After further looking at it, you can see that section of the landscape going at a downward angle behind the trees to on the left side of the painting. Follow the edge of the land, just before you hit the tree above it with your eyes, and follow it down its angle, you can see it go behind the tree to the left and off the painting.

AH!!!

It's a tear within my soul revealing the true nature of what is vulnerability dually contrasted by my own childhood fears and innocence and the need to satisfy the change that comes with adulthood!



I didn't know stuff like that was floating around about me.

Yeah, though the waterfall could be situated within that section of cliff. Still, it's close enough to the clouds to make my sentence make sense using the word "cliffs". XP




Glad it moved you, though I believe it's more to do with the standard rationality of mind considered paramount during the Enlightenment period coming to terms with the beginning of societal realisations that beauty and truth, even the glory of God, may exist in irregularity and a sense of terror.

I've been talking about the light area just o the left of the horse and lion. Are you talking about near the top of the painting, just below the sky?

Ohhhh. Yeah, the browny area there is definitely cliffs, I agree there. It does look a bit misty, which as Lucy said may be waterfall mist, but I guess I see that area as being a wall of cliff with the river running below it. The horizon line (lol, typed "lion" first) has an area below the white cloud that may be waterfally, but there's enough cliff there for me not to worry about it too much, I think.

The landscape in the middle foreground kind of reminds me of this beach area up north where my parents and I used to camp at an island in the San Juans. I can understand how some would think a river going on there but to me I keep seeing a beach with the cliffs coming up behind it. and that maybe there would be more land hiding behind the lion and horse like some pathway of some kind. course that's just me.

I'm glad for the dbzcenter and the ability of having someone else share in-depth thoughts like these. I guess you can read that sort of thing everywhere, but I don't often find people who look at art in this light. Probably means I'm hanging with the wrong crowd.

*packs bags*

Seems I need to pay the UK a visit.

That Lion looks really fucking high. So obviously that's a cloud of ganja smoke where a bunch of other lions are getting baked. All of a sudden they heard a noise outside so they sent Ted (the pictured Lion) out to check to make sure it wasn't the cops.

Stay cool, Ted. Stay cool. Goddammit man, you always blow it.