Friday, October 1, 2010

Bruegel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"

In the picture there are many shades of color in the sky. I see shades of yellow, blue, green and he also has some white mixed into there. I also can see this little city in the backround. There is a selective few tall buildings located in the city. In the harbor you can see a few boats. Some are sailing into port and some are sailing out. Most of the boats are fairly small. Also behind the boats in the background you can see that there is a galacier or some kind of mountians. There is also another mountain/galacier in the very back of this picture. This means that he is hinting that this picture is taking during the fall/winter time. But once you look into the middle of the picture you see some kind of a castle on a island. Once you look in the front of the picture you see a whole different landscape then you would if you were in the city. The atmosphere around her is a more darker. He blends more colors into the painting here then in the background. On the hill there are many dark tall weeds like she hasn’t plowed it in a while and there is some trees right in front of this landscape but there's not that many. It looks like this village is in trouble because there isn't that much detail in there land. Behind the trees and the bottom field you can see that there are some more mountains. These are not like the others. These ones are paleish white instead of straight white like the ones in front of the city. The lady plowing the hill must be from a little village located on the hill instead of living in the city like everyone else. If you look just below her you will see that there is a man climbing up the hill with a walking stick. He also has sheep behind him as if he was a sheep Herder. Hes a journey man because he doesn’t have the same clothes that the lady plowing the hill does. If you look really close to the water right behind all of this you can see that there is a man fishing. He is fishing with just a line because he doesn’t have a fishing pole. If you look right in front of him there is a man in the water upside down like he was drowning. But he could be swimming. Or been throwing off the boat that’s right next to him. There is a lot of detail in the water. He adds effects to make it look like the water was choppy so it would be hard to do things such as boat or fish. Just beside the little boat you see another little island. This makes you think if there is any life on that island. And if there is why wouldn’t the village lady go there to farm instead of on the hill with not as much brightness as over there.

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