Odd that the world's greatest detective did not notice that the Pietro Adamo painting "Triad III" that Dr. Bell got from Dr. Kroger's office (Season 7 Ep. 1) is hung upside down. Hmmmmm.

I know, it all goes back to my comment that they have dumbed this show down, and if I may add are getting sloppy. Sad.

OMG. I just did an image search--I don't pretend to be familiar with that painting or its artist--it's hung upside down. I hope someone in production is reading this board and turns the painting right side up on that set before they film on it again.

I don't think that this is the kind of art that Monk is really into, you could just decide to believe that he's never seen or heard of the work before and didn't know. We got the impression last season that he wasn't that familiar with the art world. I'm a self labled art geek, and I had never heard of this painter or the picture, so it's certainly believable to me that Monk has gaps in his modern art knowledge. It's not the kind of art I am most familiar with either. Just the other day I said it was like that generic doctor's waiting room art, but I have to say that it does look more interesting when I did a search on it and could see the picture more clearly, the textures. Still, though, to me, it looks a lot like generic waiting room, maybe a little better with better detail.

Something else that hurts the way this print (it's not actually a painting but a print of one) looked is the way it was framed. The framer cut so much of the picture out, covered up most of the more interesting textures with the wide mat, and it had to have been framed upside down. When a picture is framed, the wire that the picture hangs from is always a little closer to the top than the bottom, and unless it's an extremely cheap print that is stuck down permanently to a board to keep it from rippling, it will be fixed to the mat from only the top edge. So the point is the prop people didn't hang it upside down, the framer framed it upside down. And framed it badly aside from that. The only reason I can think of to cover up so much of the print is because that part alone looked so similar to Monk's jacket front and the rest of the painting distracted from it. If they framed it that way to make it fit the wall space, I would have to wonder why they didn't just get a smaller print of that painting?

Maybe they had it framed upside down to see if anyone would catch it. I'm pretty sure that they do that on occasion; put something in that's not right just to see if anyone will catch it, and I think usually someone does.

But Monk was right, it really didn't look right in Dr. Bell's office with all those landscapes with the 'dusky' sort of golden light in them.

I tend to think that it was hung that way because it makes it more... even...

You know, when I saw that painting, I thought it looked "odd" for some reason, but I couldn't figure out why. It could have been a great Monk moment. Now just watch, they never refer to the painting again.

Maybe its a scene they decided to cut....where he turns it (or comments that it needs to be turned) right side up....I remember hearing from a few that the epi felt rushed (I can't say, it being my first)....maybe they planned more than they could fit, or were planning an extended version or......


Who knows, maybe Monk will "mention" something in the next epi....like he was trying to be "polite"....but it starts irking him too much or.....


I don't know, I'm just making this up as i go along



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