About Suffering they were never wrong The Old Masters how well they understood Its human position how it takes place While someone else is eating WH Auden Musee de Beaux Arts Breugel ID: 469481
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About Suffering
About Suffering they were never wrong/ The Old Masters how well they understood/ Its human position, how it takes place/ While someone else is eating…. -- W.H. Auden “Musee de Beaux Arts”Slide2Slide3
Breugel
At the forefront of intellectual thought in the sixteenth centuryThe reality of human existence
Humility and ToleranceSymbolically rich paintingsSlide4
Bruegel’s Period
In the wake of LutherPeasant UprisingsAgainst the Countess of StuhlingenPetitioning of the twelve articles: right to elect pastors, end to serfdom, free collection of wood, abolition of certain tithes, restoration of hunting and fishing rights etc.
Easter, 1525 (primary source quotations)Slide5
“Peasant” Bruegel and his Immediate Influences
“City child,” certainly not a peasant; therefore, Bruegel regularly interacted with the most important Flemish thinkers.Abraham Ortelius: geographer and humanist
Dirk Coornhert: theologian, philosopher, humanist, statesman, writer, printmakerThe Time of Copernicus and discovery
From Coornhert, the humanism of the reformationSlide6
Spirit of an Age: Copernicus and Erasmus, 16th Century Giants
The Polish astronomer,Copernicus had revealed to all the world that Universe was a fundamentally different Slide7
SPANISH INVASION
In the 1560s King Phillip II of Spain ordered the Duke of Alba to raise 20,000 troops to invade the Low CountriesDuring this time Breugel executed his most somber themesMany paintings were destroyed—possibly from this time period Slide8
Christ and the Adulteress: humility and tolerance
Influenced by RaphaelDie sonder sonde is die…
The two groups: the accused and the shamedWe feel humble and tolerant and awedSlide9Slide10
The Wedding Dance
William Carlos Williams’ poem—”The dancers go round”
Bruegel, the party crasher
The quiet observer with writing tools
Have the revelers missed the point?
The sixteenth-century “YMCA”
Nature in the vanishing pointSlide11Slide12
About SufferingAbout suffering, they were never wrong
The Fall of IcarusOvid’s interpretationTragedy but no one noticesSlide13Slide14
Landscape with Gallows and Magpie
Gossiping on the gallows: gossips hang in Netherlandish proverbs
Dancing on the gallows
The defecating man is BSing
The Spanish InquisitionSlide15Slide16
Haymaking: perfect harmony
Here for one, Breugel felt
human beings to be in perfect harmony with nature; when they are idle and sometimes while they are doing their work various degrees of ugliness remain, but here … they are happy and radiant.
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CONCLUSION
Knew what the Italians never noticed “In Italy during the sixteenth century, the unvarnished reality that Breugel (sic) championed was ignored
Unprettified visual realityHumility and toleranceModern Breugels: Faulkner, Steinbeck, Budbill
John Prine: Just a big goofy world with a big goofy man dancing with a big goofy girlSlide19
Mystery Slide OneSlide20
Mystery Slide TwoSlide21
Mystery Slide Three