Jan Van Eyck's painting "St Francis Receiving the Stigmata"

We began our day looking at the painting - below is an initial response followed by a response after spending the entire day tracing and studying the painting. (The text is informal and intended to be read as it was spoken.)


Chrissy: Serious -sad, Brother Leo is crying, detailed everything is intricate
Rhianna: Depressing - The use of shadows, every building and every plant casts shadows
Laura: Brown, not very colorful - more detail than I expected, I though I saw a little boat
Gina: compact - intricate for its size
Paul: Why does the angel have four wings - more nature oriented than I first thought
MaryBeth: Details for its size - discovered a horse in front of the lake and reflection of the people in the water
Kelly: The feet are twisted - unexpected colors, behind Jesus is bright and colorful, in front of him is kind of brown
Charles: Boring and dull - I have more respect for the artist, for the detail and the work to get everything right
Grace: Kind of sad - more liveliness, there is more life to it - seen in the town the boat and the depictions of people living their everyday lives.
Danielle: Muted - unexpected detail, and I am sure Van Eyck was not expecting us to blow it up big hundreds of years later
Kristopher: Realistic - was amazed by the hair and the rocks
Conner: Religion, allot of it - (to be added)
Megan: Rockiness - (to be added