Journal Entry 24: Setting In Art

Look at the picture on pp. 234-235 in your text book. What do you see in it? Describe forms, shapes, images, colors, and so on. What kinds of sounds, smells, tastes, or feelings does it make you think of? How would you describe the setting? Where is it? How do you know? When is it? Why do you think so? Can you describe the mood of the painting? What kind of feelings does it generate? What kind of world—realistic, scary, dream-like, fantastic, etc.—do you think it is? Why?

I think that the whole picture is about three giants and their pregnant cow pet going to visit a midget village. From the picture, I can tell that it's very cold and it's snowing outside, and all around the giants are small little cute houses. The giants had huge smiles on their faces and there's a weird little bucket in front of the cow, and it looks like its full of garbage. Also, I realized something quite uncomfortable about the picture, and that is that the cow is pregnant with a bird, which is very freaky. And, there are also outlines of faces in the sky and there's a huge tree in the sky too. I'm guessing that the cow is a monster and its the giants' monster pet, and the giants are probably visiting their midget relative in the Midget Village. I think altogether, the picture looks very heart-warming, because the giants look very happy and seemed very nice, and all the village seemed cute and "fairy-land-like". Honestly, I can't help but feel like Tinker Bell is going to suddenly come out of the small village and sprinkle her magic dusts all over the giants. I guess the snow and the houses just made everything seem so magical and sweet!