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...print such a vulgar, ugly picture as Pieter Bruegel's "The Wedding Dance" in the Nov. 26 issue? It takes up much valuable space and its sensuality is far from ennobling. We need pictures that help strengthen our moral fibre...
...behalf of the Detroit Institute of Arts, may I express deep appreciation and admiration of the fine article and reproduction of the Bruegel "Wedding Dance"? It was indeed well handled, and we have already had many comments from our public. The Sunday after the reproduction appeared our attendance took quite an unusual spurt; undoubtedly many Detroiters did not realize that they had such a treasure house in their midst...
...Arts in 1930, it was not in its original state but had been overpainted, probably in the 19th Century, to cover up parts of costumes shocking to Victorians, but common in the 16th Century . . . The restoration of the picture to its original state was appreciated by all who admire Bruegel's realism and detail...
...three centuries after his death Bruegel was considered a vulgarian and a boor, almost beneath the notice of refined art lovers. He painted the world around 16th Century Antwerp just as he saw it, with a sharp reporter's eye for detail. He drew with the assurance (though not the delicacy) of DÜrer, and the informal air of his most complex pictures conceals a master-composer's iron hand. Love of life-the smooth along with the rough-was the driving force in his work; he scorned artiness and sentimentality...
...Bruegel's earthy realism has found a not-so-earthy reflection in contemporary U.S. art. Genre painters and magazine illustrators have learned from him, and to such realists as Andrew Wyeth and Henry Koerner he is the greatest of old masters...