Word: bruegel
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...walls of the Flemish section are a gray-mauve that curators describe as plum but less charitable observers call degueulis d'ivrogne (loosely translated as regurgitated wine). Here the magnificent Flemish collection, featuring works of Van Eyck, Van Dyck and Bruegel, ultimately prevails. And so does the ingenuity of Pei's layouts, which is evident throughout the painting galleries. For Poussin, Pei designed a special octagonal room to show off the famous Seasons series. And for the 24 oversize Rubenses commissioned by Marie de Medicis in the 1620s, Pei designed what is the stunning centerpiece of the Flemish section...
...other hand, the early work of James Rosenquist and Claes Oldenburg has lost none of its power. With Oldenburg the vitality comes from his wild metaphors of the world as body -- hard things drooping into softness, small things turning mountainous, a vision that seems to reach back to Bruegel and can make a crude enlarged plaque of some cuts of supermarket meat look like the site of a massacre. With Rosenquist, it is the crude oppositions, engrossing in their pure Americanness. The woman's face rising out of an orange swamp of spaghetti in I Love You with My Ford...
...wise idiot. When he catches a talking pike, it strikes a bargain: if Ivan casts it back into the icy water, his every wish will be granted. The result is riches, fame -- and problems. Gennady Spirin's paintings exhibit the palette of Russian icons and the surreal quality of Bruegel landscapes...
...fabric swatches, wheels of paint chips, pages of wall coverings, rows of baked tiles, furniture catalogs -- even lamps and statuary. For customers who like things fancy, there are silk screens, antique engravings, custom-framed landscapes and Old Master reproductions -- a Degas for the master suite, perhaps, or a Bruegel...
...form of punishment, since God himself had permitted and even approved the eternal fires. And with what a hunger for retribution did Dante identify each king or warrior he reported seeing in the Inferno, buried up to the eyes in rivers of blood. With what zeal did Bosch and Bruegel similarly portray malefactors being torn at by giant birds or skeletons. Yet the avenger himself was traditionally punished too. Orestes goes mad; Hamlet dies of poison; Captain Ahab ends in a tangle of rope dragged by Moby Dick. Revenge is both necessary and forbidden...