More Art Description Junk

The next region is the foreground left region. This region stretches to the very bottom of the painting up to near the top. The region is ornate stone structure in the same style of the foreground middle region, however, this region is less rounded and has more long, sweeping designs.

The “Eye of Silence” is a surreal painting by Max Ernst that depicts an ancient-looking structure, wall, or sculpture.   It is unclear which it is.  The angle of the picture is a straight-on 3D-perspective.   The area behind the wall is the sky, and nothing else, making it seem as if the structure lies on a precipice.  The whole structure seems to be imbued with some sort of organic energy, and in parts of it plants seemingly grow out of the stone.

In the center of the painting is the main part of the painting. It looks like a carved stone structure. The hues of the structure all hover around yellow-green. In the top-left of corner, two candle stick shaped pillars rise from the main structure. The pillar’s hues range from yellow to yellow-green going left to right. The pillars seem to have ornate carved flourishes on them such as ribbon-like swooshes that the wrap around the candle stick pillars.

Below the pillars is the middle left region of the structure. This region consists of rectangular stone thing. The sides of the rectangle are larger than the base. The rectangle is a glowing bright-green hue except for convex protrusions that catch highlights. These protrusions are whitish. In the center of the rectangle is a circle. The circle appears to be embedded in the stone rectangle. The circle is light blue in color, and has a highlight in the top-left quadrant.

To the right of the rectangle is the center of the focus in the entire painting. It is a worn-down curved structure. In the lower-middle region of the center structure are several ornate carvings that an appear to make up an obscured face. To the left of the “face” is a another face that is half-covered y the left region (the pillars and the rectangle.)

The faces are a bright green as well. However, there are cast shadows in the indentations and crevices around the cheeks and nose. The nose is a sea-shell like spiral shape. The whole region in general looks worn down and bumpy.

Above the lower-middle area of the foreground center region is the higher-middle region. This region is fairly trapezoidal. The left slanted edge of the trapezoid is made up of a concave arch athat loops out from the candle-stick pillars. The top edge of the trapezoid is slightly curved and meets the top of the arch at a ~110 angle. The other edge of the trapezoid is more or less a straight line. It is corroded like the other parts of the structure to the point where it almost looks furry. There is a hint of gold at the top of the line, where it meets the top edge of the trapezoid.

I will break this painting into five groups. The foreground center, the foreground left, the foreground right, the foreground bottom, and the background.