WINSLOW HOMER - RIGHT AND LEFT

The title of the painting was not given by Homer but he accepted it.
Usually most fine art pieces or paintings have queer names which make you wonder its relationship to the painting. Although with this painting I thought it suited it. When I first saw the painting I looked at it from the center, and then explored other areas of the painting. Majority of people read and observe things from the left to the right, but once we realise the title of the painting it guides the us to observe the painting from right to left instead.

'In 'Right and Left' the ducks appear transfixed, at the exact instant of death. At the same time as we glimpse the orange flame from the discharged gun. The physical reality of the painting, paradoxically is brought to our attention by the illusory reality of the ducks, our gaze holds them in sensuous painted beauty in the moment of their death'..As I was reading this paragraph I was stunned at how some connotations can be developed from paintings. So in fact it is very efficient to let the viewer do a fair amount of the thinking rather than revealing everything to them in a tight composition.