APees: For the first part of the period, we will be exploring the timed writing we did on Monday, February 23--the two poems (Auden and Plath) that reflected the work of Breughel the Elder. The poems are disturbing, but then again, so are the paintings:
You can find a larger version on the web, but if you look at the lower right quadrant of the painting, you'll see two white legs incongruously peeking from the sea. That would be Icarus, the ultimate afterthought in the painting. Brueghel did have a sense of humor. This painting is related in the prompt to "Musee des Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden.
The next painting is even more distirbing, though.
The second poem, "Two Views of a Cadaver Room" by Sylvia Plath, refers to this piece by Brueghel called "Triumph of Death." Again we see a scene with a comparatively minor detail in the lower right quadrant--in this case, two lovers obliviously embracing while carnage erupts around them.
