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Krishna and Radha under a Tree in a Storm Northern India (Punjab Hills, Kangra), ca. 1790-early 19th century Opaque watercolor and gold on paper Overall: 9 x 6 3/4 in. (22.9 x 17.1 cm) Brooklyn Museum. Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund, 70.145.1
Some participants were asked to respond to this painting. Here are their responses:
Enter the first word that comes to mind:
- animals
- balance
- beautiful
- bird
- black clouds
- bliss
- bucolic
- calm
- catastrophe
- charmed
- chill
- concupines
- consort
- conviviality
- countryside
- cow
- dark
- darknes
- darkness
- dating
- desire
- detailed
- dream
- dreamy
- eden
- eerie
- ethereal
- evening
- exotic
- fertile
- garden
- green
- happy
- idol
- idyllic
- india
- indian skies
- interesting
- intrigue
- intriguing
- joy
- krishna
- landscape
- leasure
- legends
- leisure
- life
- lotus
- love
- love triangle
- lovers
- menagerie
- moody
- music
- mysterious
- mythical
- nature
- night
- nightfall
- nocturne
- paradise
- park
- pastoral
- peace
- peaceful
- people
- pic nic
- picnic
- picnik
- pleasure
- quiet
- rain
- relax
- relaxed
- relaxing
- repose
- rest
- rich
- romance
- rousseau
- royality
- sanctuary
- saturated
- sensuality
- serene
- sex
- sex with animals
- sexy
- silly
- snakes
- spiritual
- spring
- storm
- storms
- stormy
- swarthy
- thunder
- tranquil
- tranquility
- twilight
- van gogh
- verdant
- water
- wet
Enter a word that describes the subject or mood of this painting:
- amorous
- arcadia
- arousing
- beautiful
- beauty
- beauty of the world...
- belief
- birdly
- bucolic
- calmness
- cattledrive
- complex
- content
- cool
- countryside
- curious
- dark
- dejeuner
- delight
- dreamy
- dreary
- enjoying nature
- enjoyment
- erotic
- ethereal
- family
- fascainting
- forboding
- foreboding
- frilly
- haa
- humbling
- idyll
- idyllic
- intimate
- intrigueing
- intriguing
- krishna
- krishna leela
- languid
- lazy
- leisure
- leisurely
- love
- love in the night
- love, fantasy, possibly religious
- lovers
- lush
- lust
- luxurious
- luxury
- m
- magical
- midsummernight
- mysterious
- mystery
- mythical
- nature
- nebulous
- night
- night scene with animals
- night sky
- ominous
- paradise
- party
- past
- pastoral
- peaceful
- playful
- pleasant
- pleasure
- portending
- prince
- questioning
- relax
- relaxation
- relaxed
- relaxing
- religious
- repose
- retreat
- romance
- romance and pending storm,
- romantic
- sacred
- sensual...
- serene
- sexytime
- storm
- stormy
- story
- sultry
- symbolistic
- thunderstorm
- time
- tranquil
- transported
- waiting
What is the dominant color in this painting?
- black
- blue
- dark green
- gray
- green
- greenh
- greenish gray
- greens
- grey
- grey black
- light green
- purple
- ugly green
- yellow
- yellow but i want to examine the sky more than the individuals.
About how many figures are depicted in this painting?
- five people, a bird foreground, two cows/oxen, several birds in flight
- 15 animals and people
- 5 human figures
- 5? people 12? animals
- are cows figures too?
- eighteen
- fifteen
- five
- five people, 3 cows, 1 peacock, some birds
- five, possibly six human figures
- nine
- six
- sixteen
- 2
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 12
- 13
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 20
- 25
- 33
In one sentence, describe this scene:
- Beautifully detailed work of people and animals hanging out peacefully at night
- Elegant, graceful
- Pastoral scene with cattle and birds
- At leisure with nature.
- Idyllic scene
- People and cattle in a field
- Night and the prince rests against tree with lotus, birds and cows surrounded by attendants.
- Peacefulpicnic
- This is a pastoral scene, perhaps featuring a deity as well as servants or followers, as well as animals.
- Ladies of leisure enjoying a day by the river with animals and birds, but storm cloud are brewing in the distance.
- Krishna sporting in with women along the river
- These are Asian noblewomen being attended by servants in their garden.
- Night scene in fantastical garden with maidens and animals in harmony.
- The man sat with his wife and daughter by the trees and surrounded by cows hiding the two lovers.
- Two lovers, two watchers, five humans, one cow.
- Love /seduction scene or possibly a god being venerated under a stormy sky
- A night scene of a small group of people in the countryside with several cows and a peacock.
- Sunday picnic
- Conutry scene
- A picnic.
- Ladies attend to their men amid livestock and peacocks.
- An earthly paradise.
- Birds flying in the night sky
- Nighttime love scenes under a flowering tree--two couples, several cows, two peacocks, and one woman alone in the middle.
- A family enjoys a picninc at sunset beneath a tree, forest animals surround them
- Indian God relaxing and enjoying teh company of women.
- A spring picnic.
- Appears restful with Krishna and gopis relaxing
- Love the coloration, detailing and overall romatic feeling.
- Krishna and his gopis.
- This painting depicts a lovely landscape, with cattle and people portrayed in leisurely contentment.
- A lovely afternoon that will soon go astray.
- A prince and his consort, surrounded by sacred cows, laze by a river in a beautiful opulent garden.
- A powerful woman lounging a beautiful garden
- Paradise garden
- A lush landscape, the setting for a picnic with sacred cows in attendance
- Prince and his princess enjoying the fruits of music, nature and romance.
- Love among the cattle can be distracting.
- God of peace & love bonding with maiden and animals in his courtyard
- Krishna is sitting under a tree telling stories, or waiting or resting.
- This is a delightful fantasy evening scene perhaps post sexual activities filled with promises in the birds flying, the flowering trees, the calmness of the cows and the reclining people.
- People recreating in a field with animals.
- Romantic
- Royalty lounging in springtime setting with sacred animals
- Some rich young people are having a nightly picnic plus orgy.
- At twilight, a group rests under trees while surrounded by beasts and birds at peace.
- A romantic scene
- A man reclines against a tree with an amorous attnedant and others in the area including cows.
- Sacred cows
- Krishna and the gopis.
- Lovers sit outside in a bucolic setting.
- Man resting as his workers and wives hunt and gather with the cattle.
- In the paradise
- A paradise garden.
- Walk in the forest. two lovers under a tree
- Four human figures and three cows are resting in a pastoral landscape, but birds can be seen among lightning filled clouds.
- Stopping for lunch on a journey
- Women with animals outside - the doves in the stormy sky are foreshadowing something
- Animals and people are lusting under a fragrant tree as a storm overtakes them.
- Relaxing pastoral scene.
- Love is in the air and all God's people say...
- Nature
- A time for relaxing before the coming storm
- Pastoral playtime
- 2 couples and 1 woman relax around cows.
- Figures with cattle and birds (?) at night
- Men and women relaxing by a river under a tree, with cows and peacocks present.
- Couples on picnic, relaxing
- Unimaginative, decorative depiction of life
- Garden of earthly desire
- People having a picnic in the forest
- This is a romantic summer evening.
- A king and queen with their servants are resting in the forest.
- The women are going to the man in yellow for guidance or protection, and it seems a man is flirting with the girl behind the cows.
- Serene
- Krishna with Gopis in Vrindhavan.
- Krishna and radha in a scene of romance
- Leisure time
- A young man and his lover -- or lovers? -- watch nightbirds while another couple enjoys the privacy afforded by cattle.
- This has a tranquil composition with human, animals and nature and filled with thing representing wealth.
- Krishna's flute enchanting the cows.
- Picnic
- Beautiful garden, summers day, serenity
- Dark
- The fineness of nature
- PARADISE AND THE MOTHER COW
- A little gathering in the forest.
- An intricate scene of several figures in a garden with animals
- Yearning for enlightenment
- Relaxing picnic
- Krishna plays his flute as rains arrive
- Reclining under the tree with animals looking on.
- Retreat.
- Nightscape Family
- A religious guru looking for enlightenment under a tree holding the lotus with some other looking on.
- Lovely outing of high ranking man and women with flora and fauna. Trees and lanscape are gorgeous!
- Peaceful scene with birds and animals.
- Sexy times in the indian garden of delights
- A dark picnic dream.
- An Indian sultan is resting under a tree with his harem among the animals.
- Men and women flirt on the banks of a river as a storm approaches
- There is a man lounging by the tree. He has various women serving him.
- Free
- Green
- Women under the night sky having a party with mystical creatures
- People seeking refuge from a storm
- Hanging out under a tree during a thunderstorm.
- Women are swooning over an up and coming Emperor, trying to gain his affections.
- Relaxing afternoon in paradise
- Leisure in the field.
- a little like grandma Moses but darker
- A leisurely scene with people and animals; the men and women look like they might be courting.
- The emperor is relaxing with his concubines and animals in a beautiful garden
- Krishna getting his mack on.
- Love feast
- A lot of things to look at
- This uses different styles of illustration to depict part of a larger story involving the incarnation of a deity being attended to be maidens.
- Bucolic scene of man and women in a landscape - elaborate trees, decorative border, birds flying.
- A leisurely early evening in the local park.
- Ha! lovers and farm animals
- Life in all its glory.
- I am curious about the vegetation and the animals.
- Krishna
- A peaceful picnic
- Lovers in the garden
- A familiy is enjoying a little picnic in the fields while tending to their farm animals.
- Lovers lying in a park.
- Kings and queens (gods?) relaxing in a pleasure park.
- A man under a tree with two women, a couple, animals and birds surrounding him.
- Relaxing
- This is a royalty lounging outside before a storm.
- The prince picnicking at night with the cows.
- Night
- Hanging out in a garden under a tree.
- A goddess and her attendants take shelter from a storm - or perhaps watch it from afar.
- A dark night and lovers are meeting
- A nice afternoon by the lake with flying swans
- Enjoying the good life surrounded by family and nature
- The nocturnal setting is a perfect backdrop for the subjects, and the artist shows good mastery of his craft.
- A lazy afternoon, relaxed and spiritual.
- Storm clouds are gathering around a careless prince who had more time and money than good sense.
- A god greets angels and people and animals from the shelter of a sacred tree.
- A peaceful kingdom created by a godlike warrior-king, flock, family, friends together
- Dark, moody and ominous
- Family gathering and relaxation
- Love and fertility, the feminine divine.
- God's get away
- Beautiful men and women are spending time together and there might be a storm in the distance.
- Love the sky, yellow dress
- This is a pastoral scene in which a blue-tinted man sits under a flowering tree surrounded by peacocks, bulls and followers, calmly observing as a violent-looking thunderstorm approaches.
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