Posted on 01/08/2021 12:05:13 PM PST by Bob434
Birds of a feather flock together. When the cat's away, the mice will play. We all know and love these common, American proverbs. Sometimes ironic, often silly and amusing, these sayings test our brains—and our wit. And it's not just in English. Playing with language in literature, conversation, and art has been a hallmark of different cultures for centuries.
With this in mind, over 450 years ago, Dutch master Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted his incredible Netherlandish Proverbs. Also known as The Dutch Proverbs, this oil on wood painting is a detailed masterpiece that visually represents over 100 Dutch proverbs. Bruegel is known for his elaborately detailed work, and what seems at first like a simple village scene with a wide cast of characters, is soon revealed to be something more.
(Excerpt) Read more at mymodernmet.com ...
Here is a larger version of it that you can scroll in on to see it better:
https://www.wikiart.org/en/pieter-bruegel-the-elder/netherlandish-proverbs-1559
Dang, here’s the link:
https://www.wikiart.org/en/pieter-bruegel-the-elder/netherlandish-proverbs-1559
Just click on the picture in the last link i gave, and it will open larger- then scroll the mouse wheel to enlarge
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>>We all know and love these common, American proverbs. Sometimes ironic, often silly and amusing, these sayings test our brains—and our wit. And it’s not just in English. Playing with language in literature, conversation, and art has been a hallmark of different cultures for centuries. With this in mind, over 450 years ago, Dutch master Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted his incredible Netherlandish Proverbs.
Unfortunately the common culture is being torn asunder.
Students aren’t exposed to the Bible anymore and Shakespeare is old hat too now. American history? Nope. Foundational documents (including the basis of law that built upon the civilations that led to Western Civilization...
“Why does
The Heathen Rage?”
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Should be in It.
Thanks for the larger painting.
the first link i did shows a number of them up close- and explains what they mean- some of them are a bit off colour though lol
LOL -Eyuck!
He could be a bit crude at times
One hundred years ago, Rudyard Kipling wrote “The gods of the Copybook Headings”. It was based on the fact that previous generations had learned penmanship by copying old proverbs from the tops of each page of a copybook. Thus, they learned the proverbs at the same time that they practiced penmanship.
Kipling’s poem lamented that each generation turns from the common sense proverbs and tries to forge their own path through life ignoring them. The poem is brilliant and highly relevant for today.
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm
I memorized this poem in fifth grade back in the 1950’s.
I didn’t know much about him- but the crudeness i nthe paintings is like ‘crapping on the world’ which he depicts- or ‘2 crapping from the same spot’ or something like that-
A lot of hte sayings however have kind of gone out of fashion, so are unfamiliar, and hard to decipher because of that- but still a fun painting- would like a copy of it to hang in the bathroom to pass the time lol
Quite interesting!
He put a lot of what he called "chicken fat" details into the backgrounds and surrounding figures.
[[Kipling’s poem lamented that each generation turns from the common sense proverbs and tries to forge their own path through life ignoring them.]]
Yep- We also have forgotten how to ‘learn from the mistakes in history’, and so we keep repeating them-
Thanks for the link-
“And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,”
Sure sounds like what the left are trying to foist on this world, EXCEPT that they do wish to make the right pay for non existent sins- but they themselves, the left- don’t have to ever pay-
It’s amazing how involved some works of art are- i was just going through a site showing the ‘secrets of masterpieces’ where they included hidden meanings and symbols etc- quite interesting-
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