What's up with the left girl?

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A Madonna is an artistic representation of Mary. In a painting or statue, she’s often (but not always) holding a baby Jesus.

Madonna is Italian for “my Lady” (usually the Virgin Mary).

Thanks.

The girl on the left is 'zoning' out and the girl on the right is trying to show her what's in her hands.

Umm. The girl on the right is attractive in her character... Maybe...

OK, what's up with the picture.

Once you consider her whole body language and not only her face then you'll recognize her as an very empathical and concentrated listener. For this she is of course emotional affected.
But you need a high level of affective empathy to recognize this.

Once you only concider her whole face than she seems just to be curious about what her friend has to say.
Once you are basing of a lot of cognitive empathy you'll see her this way.

Just considering her asking and knowingly eyes and her mouth you'll may find her a bit skeptical about what her friend is telling her.
Once you are basing on a bit less of cognitive empathy you'll get her this way.

Once you concider her age and her interested look only then she seems just for fun watching and listening the right girl.
Relying on experience what girls of that age are and a little less on empathy only you'll see her that way.

Once you are nearly unable to read facial expressions or body language then it's quite hard to tell anything.
But of course may your experiences cause you to see something completely different. (e.g. like Fnord)

In the end it's up to you and your personal experience and what you are relying on what you are seeing in the picture and all choices could be right.

Umm. Hang on... So high level effective empathy I don't seem to get but cognative empathy I get..Hmmm. I will need to look up what these are again... Is confusing!

There’s nothing official about this, so don’t take anything seriously.

Cognative... Brain has cogs... bicycle has cogs... My brain... It could be like a bicycle...

I don't.... Can't you tell?

Hey! It's a totally official poll here on WP now!

Quite an extreme thing to say?

It's like an inkblot test.

Anybody can have any interpretation. There is no "right" interpretation.

Because it's a painting. You don't know what they were doing before they came to that point in the grass (unless you read about the painting).

It's really a fine piece of art. It conveys emotion well.

I wouldn’t say that it’s quite like an ink blot test. It’s not THAT open to interpretation.

I said, earlier, that it's like an inkblot test in a "loose" sense.

Of course there's less room for interpretation than a classic inkblot test.

OK, let's have a look on the picture and her body language in a nearly rational way then. (NTs get this intuitively once they are just trying.)
She isn't in hurry but takes the time to listen. Just see her relaxed feets. She is bowing her head towards her friend because she is currently really caring about her. Otherwise she wouldn't do this. She is laying in a position that isn't very comfortable but she cares about her friend more than about her comfort.
And she is looking totally concentrated towards her friends eyes for getting her friends emotions. Her friend seems to be thinking about something that is quite important to her because the facial expression of her is quite serious and she is as much in her own thoughts about this that she doesn't even cares about what she is holding in her hands. But it's nothing bad that she is thinking about because her eyes don't show sorrow but rather kind of hope. Also the left girl who reads her empathical and for this feels the way her friend does and shares this positive but unsure expression in her face. Just how I'm perceiving this. It's a really great picture.

You are good at reading body language. I thought I wasn't too bad, but I would have mist many of the points thag you have raised except to say that maybe the girl on the right is just on the autistic spectrum because to is simply avoiding eye contact and is crouching down because she is getting an energy loss situation? I get to this stage often, and the crouch like that is the first stage of recovery if I am in an area where I can't lie down, as it is better then nothing as a way of avoiding attention (Which I don't want if I get an energy loss, and if someone talks to me I have difficulty to answer them so answer calmly, slowly and quietly trying to keep conversations brief. I find listeninb to whag people are saying very difficult and I just want to recover, as listening needs concentration which s what I am not wanting to do!)

It is just a thought... I was getting these situations since the age of about six... Going on seven years of age? Before this my dad had to correct me as I used to get into raging tempers, and after he corrected me the tempers didn't happen, but energy loss seemed to take over.