Pieter Bruegel: Searching for the Details
Led by Jim Womack
Pieter Bruegel: Searching for the Details.
Reading from Psalm 8 and addressing the question: v 4 “what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them.”
No prior knowledge is needed. There will be no test but, hopefully, we will do a lot of looking and have conversations about these works of art.
Pieter Bruegel, born in Antwerp, and painted at the same time as Michelangelo and Raphael, provides a bridge between Albrecht Durer and Peter Paul Rubens in the art of the North of the Alps. In the midst of the civil wars of religion in the sixteenth century in the North, he focuses upon the very question of the nature of mankind, whether Catholic or Protestant or neither. Looking at many of his paintings, it is all too easy to see them for their simplicity and romanticized depiction of the life of the peasant and working class. Bruegel uses a variety of approaches to address the human dilemma which seems to be at the heart of his work.
Led by Jim Womack