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Bruegel (Hardcover) 70 pgs - $3 (Bethesda)
condition:
fair
size / dimensions:
70
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Test by Jacques Dopagne
The book's dust cover is torn and a bit taddered.
Some of the pages are loose. Still this is a book worth have.
Bruegel is an amazing artist.
How Bruegel Invented A New Genre Of Painting
https://youtu.be/xC-cyrIq-qI?si=bi9gG4wrOr7CiquT
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: A collection of 42 paintings (HD)
https://youtu.be/E18IJ0TBOH0?si=9CMz7pszvQHX4O3Y
Pieter Bruegel the Elder was an influential 16th-century Flemish Renaissance painter, whose topics were nevertheless not typical for the time period. He was more interested in common people, particularly peasants, than royals, clergymen, religious figures or noblemen. He was the first artist to portray this previously ignored population group. With masterful strokes and eye for detail, he documented the folk culture of his era and immortalized it for future generations. He was also the first to make nature landscapes as central - if not more central - than the people in it, making him the first known genre painter in history.
While Bruegel wasn't a comic artist in the modern sense of the word, he has many strong ties to the genre. His work makes use of humorous, satirical portrayals of ordinary people, who are often crowded together in huge panoramic scenes, which resemble comic panels.
At the time, such interest in commoners was unprecedented. Most artists before Bruegel used villagers predominantly as background characters. He made them central to his imagery. As such, his work looks like a missing link between the religion-dominated Middle Ages and the more humanist Renaissance. Even when he painted biblical or mythological themes, they were usually just an excuse to create breathtaking homages to authentic peasant life and the splendor of nature
Instead of idealizing the human body, like his colleagues in Italy did, he depicted people who were rough, pudgy, boorish, even somewhat ugly. Blind people and cripples were not left out, but depicted like any other human being. Bruegel also showed commoners engaging in droll antics. They overindulge themselves with food and alcohol and are frequently seen relieving themselves in plain sight.
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