Word: bruegels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face the problem is Italy's Capodimonte National Museum (see color page), an 18th century palace outside Naples that was built for the Bourbon kings in 1738 and reopened only last year as a treasure-filled art museum-100 galleries lined with canvases by such old masters as Bruegel, Goya, Mantegna, Masaccio and Titian. In converting the palace, Naples' Art Director Bruno Molajoli faced not only the staggering task of cleaning and identifying some 600 stored paintings (including two Correggios found in a case marked "rubbish"), but also laying out a modern, well-lighted museum...
...magnificent work of Bruegel, so beautifully reproduced in TIME, Dec. 2, is unique, inspiring, exciting and understandable in meaning-and is ART. The smears, the dribbles and scribbling of some contemporary American art are pitiful, really. Why are these things dignified by the title of art? Why are they flaunted before intelligent people as samples of modern expression...
...hope that your reproduction of Robert Motherwell's I Love You-placed close to Bruegel's reproductions-will become an eye-opener to many confused people...
Endowed as he was with a keen eye for nature and a relish for country ways, Bruegel had the good fortune to come of age at a time when men were for the first time since the Middle Ages beginning to think of art apart from religious painting. The widespread taste for everyday scenes for home decoration was handled in tapestries for the rich; for the less well-to-do, it fell to the "stayned clothe" works on perishable fine linen turned out by the watercolorists. It was to this tradition, with its set format, sharply delineated forms and flat...
...Woods. To his contemporaries, Bruegel's art spoke more directly than to the present day. The point of such parables as that of the fool who walks past the bird's nest (see color) needed no explaining in his time. To satisfy an age when connoisseurs would spend hours before a painting "trying to find the owl in the woods." Bruegel packed his canvases with scenes of birds on the wing, half-hidden bird snares, distant village-green ballplayers, to give his viewers all the delights and surprises of a country stroll. To get his rustic costumes, characters...