Our Visit to The Met Cloisters

This piece is perplexing for sure. My question is why is the lady standing on the bed? If we know the artist and the title of the painting, it would be interesting🧐

I love the color and the fabric in this piece. The artist understands the folds and depth of it well. But the perspectives from this time period were all wrong. The receding lines of the structures just don’t work. Perhaps the artist knew it wasn’t working but to be different and try something new he creates pattern to distract the viewers eye Camouflaging the wrong perspective.

It does pull you into the pattern and the contrast of wonderful colors in a creative way. Love it!

Здравей, Мария!

Уникална картина!
И аз като теб, където и да отида търся зентенгъл!
Търся онези очарователни шарки, които разкриват един красив, дълбок свят!
А тях наистина ги има!
Откривам ги в произведения на художници… Например в творби на Паул Клее! И бях очарована! И бях въодушевен! И бях щастлива! Един от моите любими художници ги е използвал в картините си!!!!
ПО отношение на тази картина имам мнение!
Тези вълшебни шарки по леглото…
За мен – те са израз на новия живот!
Във всички тези шарки са вплетени пожелания, наричания, добри помисли към новия живот, който ще дойде на бял свят!
Символични, красиви, позитивни, добронамерени, мили, добри пожелания за един щастлив нов живот!
Благодаря за възможността да се потопя в търсене на отговор по тази красота!
Бъдете здрави и благословени!
Очаквам с нетърпение новите заплитания!

What I love about many Zentangle patterns is they are universal images that have been used throughout time. They strike an inner cord whether we know the concrete meaning of them or not. I don’t know what the distinct story is in the painting but I can feel the power of the images, the bedspread, the gold around the edge, the women’s expressions, and the universal experience of birth.

Maybe the woman in black holding the white cloth is a midwife looking to a higher being for guidance. The woman in green pointing to the pregnant woman is at a very awkward angle. The circular pattern on the bed could be symbolic of the circle of life.

Time travel. Clearly Maria traveled back in time to embellish this painting so we could be mystified today.

In the center of each circular design is what looks like a quatrefoil. A symmetrical design with 4 connected lobes. It can symbolize – good luck, or wholeness.

A quatrefoil is also found in Gothic architecture, especially in churches and represents the 4 Gospels. I imagine this has a religious meaning. So interesting that it is the only ornamentation in the entire painting!

If it is a birth scene, perhaps the blanket is the Life’s blanket of creativity.

I have seen this painting before. I believe that the figure on the left with the halo, as Martina pointed out, is St Andrew, and the woman kneeling is the pregnant woman’s sister, calling on the patron saint of childbirth for protection during the delivery. It’s definitely part of a much larger piece.

I have seen this painting before. I believe that the figure on the left with the halo, as Martina pointed out, is St Andrew, and the woman kneeling is the pregnant woman’s sister, calling on the patron saint of childbirth for protection during the delivery. It’s definitely part of a much larger piece.

An observation: the unseen figure on the left shows only their hands and perhaps a bit of a halo around the head. Perhaps the women are praying to this saintly figure for help?! It’s fun to wonder what the artist intended!

And the lady on the right in the short dress? Very strange for that era.

I think a scholar of the iconography of that era could tell us why that design was included in the painting and it was likely there for a symbolic reason, not merely for ornament. To me it suggests that there are symbols and patterns which are universal elements of human expression used throughout all time.

Those bedsheets came right out of the Zentangle playbook! Where did that artist, whoever it was, find them. My suggestions that either Rick or Maria or both, lived previous lives and taught their wonderful art form then as well!

So excited for tomorrow and the new Project Pack. All ready and waiting.

For me the woman in red on the bed is most definitely with child!! I do not know enough about the history of this time but I believe that these women are attending this woman who is about to give birth to a very significant baby.
We tanglers are all looking forward to tomorrow when you, Maria and Rick, will unveil the videos to our Project Pack No.28.

To me it feels like an unfinished moment? Like the painter got interrupted either by the birth or by some other means? Note the 4 leaf clover on the “pillow” already shaded, then the shade on the sides is fast and unkept? Maybe said painter was asked to leave and tried to quickly sketch his thoughts never to return to the painting? It’s quite striking how plain the bed is in comparison to the rest of the room, and who are those shady characters on the right side of the painting? The lady in green is pointing at the baby,and the kneeling lady in black is poised to catch the baby with the cloth, her red dress covering her head suggesting she underneath the dress. Thank goodness they had good taste in their pick of the tangled bedspread, certainly made the room brighter 😉

I don‘t know the artist. In my opinion the picture shows the moment just before Mother Anna gives birth to Mary, the mother of Gods Son. On the left side there seems to be someone with a golden Halo , therefore I think that this picture is a religious one.

If it is , that the women on the bed is Mother Anna , than the wonderful tangled bedsheet wants to show the onlooker, that the baby that will soon be born has much significance, is someone special and meaningful.
It could also be, that it is the scene when Jesus is born. That depends on the unseen rest of the picture.
Am I wright with my suggestions?

The tangled bedsheet is the eyecatcher for every Tangler. So beautiful .

We are all in this together to be of help to one another. We are here to receive whatever you and Rick decide to bring into the world for us to cherish. Zentangle blankets us in unity. We are ready for the birth of your new ideas!! Or…could this have something to do with the birth of a great grandchild into your tangled world?

Perhaps the circle pattern represents a child in the womb in the circle of life?.