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Have you created something wonderfully colorful? Share your work here. Breugel's Icarus
   GreenMyEy… GreenMyEyes wrote: 1 Aug, 2008
W.H. Auden's poem on Breugel's Icarus seems to relate particularly well to our current world:
Musée Des Beaux Arts 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 or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth, there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on. Here's the painting: Icarus and my multiblend:  
  Dia Dia wrote: 1 Aug, 2008
I've always loved that poem.
Your blend is really beautiful, GME. Captures the painting perfectly. Thanks for posting it. <3  |
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