Mystery Painting Description
by Haggai and David
Mystery Painting
recreated by our Walter Hays partners
In the middle there is a horse head facing left and outlined in black. On the back of the neck there is a mitten that is green with a yellow orange thumb. The horse head and the mitten take up 1/4 of the whole picture. The head touches the brown ditch in the left top corner.
In the right bottom right hand corner is a rock that is purple on the bottom and red on the top. It covers about 1/9 of the total picture. Over the rock are five black lines. On the top line there is a blue-purple color, like a plum thumb, sticking up on the left end. On the last line which goes 3/4 of the way across, there is a purple thumb going down in the middle. Over the waves there is a black arrow pointing up from the center of the ocean and four black lines shaped like a TV antenna, sticking up to the left of the arrow. The background is mostly white with olive. It looks like wet sand.
by David and Haggai
The painting's name is "Lyrical." The artist is Wassily Kandinsky. This painting was painted in 1911. The size is 94 x 130 cm. It is in the Collection Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
Our partners made the shapes fairly accurately. They forgot the eagle head and the plum thumb. They should have done a horse head instead of a dog head.
I think we did a good job of our description, but they didn't read the directions carefully enough. The background was supposed to be sand-colored, not green.
