Tuseday, February th

Tuesday, February 12th (the twelfth) 2019.

The missing elements

The marshalls don’t have heads :

• Maybe because they’re anonymous/unimportant

• Maybe the painter wants to protect their identity

• He wants us to focus on Ruby Bridges.

There are no fences :

• Maybe because the marshalls already protect the girl, they represent the fences/a shield for her.

• Maybe because the fences could take too much space/be too imposing.

• Maybe the frame of the painting represents the fences, or maybe we can see a barrier in the lines behind Ruby.

-The school is absent :

• It’s probably outside the painting (on the left), where they are going. The frontdoors are probably just in front of them.

• The painter represented the school in Ruby’s hands.

• The wall behind them probably belongs to the school.

• The school is only a pretext, it’s not important only the situation is.

-We can’t see the crowd :

• The painter probably wanted to make us feel like we were the crowd. He wants us to feel like guilty spectators.

• He wants us to feel uncomfortable/disturbed.