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Actually, Clark was speaking of Auden's poem, 'Musee des Beaux Arts." "Icarus" is the title of the Breughel painting, the inspiration behind Auden's words. It's a wonderful poem. Christina S. Griffith Assistant Dean of Freshman and General Education 105 Teaching Assistant
...basis of one antagonistic witness, for instance, she argues that Hugo first turned on Louis Napoleon because he was not offered a suitable Cabinet post. In her discussion of Notre Dame de Paris, she observes how "[Hugo] presents the rabble with the gusto and the crudity of Breughel." Anyone who can turn Breughel into a pejorative cannot judge ordinary artists, much less Olympic...
...suffers from only one inadequacy-it does not have many fish. Besides, many of its tenants are regrettably ordinary, so a visit isn't like walking through an art museum which in its modesty could only exhibit two Picassos, half a dozen Klees, a Raphael, a Degas, and a Breughel, scattered among thirty rooms. In fact, I was becoming impatient as I looked at that garish wave, and demanded that Huntley lead me to the whales. So he pointed out the picture of a breaching blue whale...
Take Icarus by Breughel, for example (Auden did). Do we like it for its mythological content or for its rendering of the scene, or for what mixture of the two? Do we like it because we are able to tell our museum date some background information or because there is something ineffably beautiful about the green waves? Our familiarity with Art History or Edith Hamilton's Greck. Mythology may get in the way of our aesthetic vision...
...SUPPORTING players round out the organic unit of the group. They communicated the visceral meaning of a squalid poverty in their coarseness and their greed. The cast studied the peasant-figures of Breughel and Bosch when they first began to think about their characters during their own ten weeks of rehearsal, integrating their visual impressions with sensitivity exercises. The influence of the two artists can also be seen on the backdrop, which is essentially a giant scroll set on its side and rolled to different panels by the entering actors. Arnold Trachtman's black-and-white murals are intriguingly similar...