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It's called "red rain" and I think it's a famous piece of art. I'm not sure if it's meant to be interpreted however you want to or if there's a specific meaning.
This is the description: "Italian photographer Stefano Corso excels at capturing that quiet urban moment."
It doesn't tell you a lot. I love how it looks and it would fit perfectly in my place. I'm just curious if the red has some kind of meaning or the photograph overall does.
However, I clicked on another one on Wayfair. It's the same picture but with a different frame and it says it's by "Patricia Pinto." I'm not sure why the name changed.
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Could be styles are copied. I think it's just a way of adding color to a scene. Kind of like those black and white winter scenes and then that bright spot of color in the red cardinal.
If it speaks to you in some way, that's all that matters to the artist.
This is the description: "Italian photographer Stefano Corso excels at capturing that quiet urban moment."
It doesn't tell you a lot. I love how it looks and it would fit perfectly in my place. I'm just curious if the red has some kind of meaning or the photograph overall does.
However, I clicked on another one on Wayfair. It's the same picture but with a different frame and it says it's by "Patricia Pinto." I'm not sure why the name changed.
The coding on your image also says Patricia Pinto, who is a native of Columbia & works out of FL. If you look @ https://www.wayfair.com/Amanti-Art-R...t-XAQ4340.html - you'll see various prints of the image, each one attributed to either Pinto or Corso. I think one or both have grounds for infringement, assuming that they can show date of copyright. Corso is described in the print entry (under his name) as being an Italian photographer.
The images look identical to me, although in the comments on the image @ the OP, someone complains that it's too dark & hard to see what the image is of. I think it's just wall art, something to decorate with. Given the size of the catalog for both, I think they work pretty fast.
I always interpret art with my own ideas.
To me it looks like someone going through hard times, but sees light up ahead.
A friend and I were at a museum and saw the same picture of two young children on a precipice looking out over a valley. One child had her hand on the others shoulder. Her interpretation was one child was going to push the other off the cliff. Mine was the child was warning the other not to get too close.
Just call me Pollyanna
There is a host of red umbrella paintings. Maybe this is like Keane's big eye pics. For awhile in the 1960s, those pics and similar rip offs were everywhere.
I'd say that the pic has no specific meaning except for that attributed to it by the viewer. What does it mean to you?
I see it as a statement of; "man's inhumanity towards fellow man"
of course, that's how I see every painting or work of art as I only attended that one day of 'Interpreting Art 101' at Jr. College before I dropped out to become an Air Traffic Controller
A red umbrella carried by a nondescript woman in a greyed out scene...
In the film "Schindler's List", the little girl in the red coat, walking through the black and white footage of the liquidation of the ghetto...
In the film "The Sixth Sense", the red door knob on the door to the basement...
Pretty much a splash of red in a colorless view is meant to provide contrast to the surrounding scene, something meant to draw one's eye - "pay attention - a point is being made here".
In the mass-produced artwork depicted in OP, to me it means that the unidentified every-woman in the photo is saying "I have a red umbrella in a sea of drab. I'm special, I have optimism, I have hope". Sort of like the cat in the "Hang in there" poster.
There is a host of red umbrella paintings. Maybe this is like Keane's big eye pics. For awhile in the 1960s, those pics and similar rip offs were everywhere.
I'd say that the pic has no specific meaning except for that attributed to it by the viewer. What does it mean to you?
There's a lot of interesting interpretations here. Now that I've read all of them, I think Retire in MB's makes the most sense although none of the interpretations here are what drew me to it.
Basically, I love selective color photography. (I would say this is almost selective color.) It's a powerful way to take a complicated world with tons of stimuli and focus the person on one interesting thing. It can also be a way of pointing out how many interesting stimuli there are that we normally miss in the present moment (a key tenet of the mindfulness movement).
That said, I didn't really pay much attention to the rest of the picture. Just the red umbrella. I didn't even consciously process that it looks like what's behind her is dark and ahead is bright. Perhaps this also symbolizes how easy it is to focus on one detail and miss the bigger picture.
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