Sunday, September 9, 2007

Coffee Shop Art

When you take the first glance at the painting in the coffee shop it is shockingly white, green, and purple. Then you look closer and realize that you are looking a sunny English garden. You see that there is a mush of purple wildflowers in the front, and a tangle of birch trees in the back that is separated by some kind of footpath or wooden bridge. The painting evokes good feelings, it makes you feel like its springtime. Also, it gives you a sense of things being in bloom. After you get that feeling, you then feel like you can smell the painting. Fresh air, floral, and grassy odors seem to be radiating from the painting, like a giant stratch-and-sniff sticker. After taking all these senses from the painting in, you then begin to search for something else in this painting, some kind of protagonist. You think, sure this looks a wonderful place to be, but there must be something more to it. Perhaps this is supposed to be the message that this painting is supposed to be getting across, despite how good things are humans are never content with themselves.

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