Observations

Observations: is it just me or is the sky darkening the peacefulness of the picture? The perfection of the picture, and how peaceful and harmonious the image is until the darkness that looms in the sky takes over. The thing that interests me and caught my attention was how the sunlight and the sun like break open the only light in the foggy sky. Does fogginess make the sky dark, if so, then does that like move toward the painter's feelings? Why is everything so foggy? Is that how he/she's feeling? If yes, then why is the depressing edge higher in the sky rather than down below with the animals? Does that mean that the depression is overriding all the other regular feelings? Is there something the artist is trying to tell us, if so what exactly? Why is there so little of water? Is that supposed to be there, has it rained before? Or was that just a place where there was lots of water and that's why the deer are approaching: to get a drink but there really wasn't anything there. Is that how the painter is feeling? That when they need someone to depend on, like how a human depends on water, that the person who they need isn't there for them and so they just look around depending on a different person, just the way the deer are depending on a new resource of water?

This painting is jumbled up with so many different thoughts and emotions that it's a bit confusing on knowing what exactly does the painter want to express when they painted this?