Last week, my friends from high school came back from college and we decided to go to the Morgan Library and Museum. The Morgan Library and Museum was filled with many fine arts paintings and it was impossible to keep my eyes off of them. I found this painting in particular interesting because of the contrasting images seen in one image. The expressionless dog seems either oblivious of the dead rabbit and hawk or protective of the dead game. When I first saw this painting I didn’t notice that there were two dead animals because I was so focused on the dog. But as I looked closer I realized that there was a story that was waiting to be told.
The idea that there was a story waiting to be told brought me to ask my friend, Lucy, “What do you see?” Lucy, an artist herself, said that to her the dog seemed to be waiting for something bad to happen as if the dog was expecting to be the next one dead. Then I shared my thoughts of the dog either waiting for his or her master or protecting the two animals, Lucy strongly disagreed.
Lucy and I have a tendency to go back and forth when it comes to any issue, but this time it was different. It was as if being in college has allowed us to become more respectful and analyze deeper into a subject. Lucy and I may attend different schools, but college has allowed for both of us to have discussions with people from all over the country and the world, which has definitely begun to change the way we think and the way we speak.