Comments on: History Video Blog #32 http://www.modernera.us/wordpress/2010/03/15/history-video-blog-32/ The Wysiwyg Interpretation of History. Est. 2003. Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:45:46 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: mzzkelly http://www.modernera.us/wordpress/2010/03/15/history-video-blog-32/comment-page-1/#comment-673 mzzkelly Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:47:27 +0000 http://www.modernera.us/wordpress/?p=374#comment-673 That's so hard! There is no single piece of work but I do have overall artists. For now...<br><br>I like the color and transparency of Helen Frankenthaler woodcuts. You've gotta see them up close. That's so hard! There is no single piece of work but I do have overall artists. For now…

I like the color and transparency of Helen Frankenthaler woodcuts. You've gotta see them up close.

]]> By: will_spicer http://www.modernera.us/wordpress/2010/03/15/history-video-blog-32/comment-page-1/#comment-672 will_spicer Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:46:17 +0000 http://www.modernera.us/wordpress/?p=374#comment-672 when it comes to visual fine art, i just keep coming back to Breughel's "Landscape with the fall of Icarus." it really speaks to two different world-views-- one that allows for the fantastic and miraculous, and one that doesn't.<br>And then there is Auden's take in "Musee de Beaux Arts", which seems equally valid, if not more essential to the human experience:<br>...In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away <br>Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may <br>Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, <br>But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone <br>As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green <br>Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen <br>Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, <br>had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on...<br><br>i never tire looking at it and when i do, i carry it round the whole day when it comes to visual fine art, i just keep coming back to Breughel's “Landscape with the fall of Icarus.” it really speaks to two different world-views– one that allows for the fantastic and miraculous, and one that doesn't.
And then there is Auden's take in “Musee de Beaux Arts”, which seems equally valid, if not more essential to the human experience:
…In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on…

i never tire looking at it and when i do, i carry it round the whole day

]]> By: culfinatan http://www.modernera.us/wordpress/2010/03/15/history-video-blog-32/comment-page-1/#comment-671 culfinatan Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:20:34 +0000 http://www.modernera.us/wordpress/?p=374#comment-671 New Post: Let's sail down the River Arno to Firenze on the latest History Video Blog! <a href="http://is.gd/aJjX5" rel="nofollow">http://is.gd/aJjX5</a> #hvb New Post: Let's sail down the River Arno to Firenze on the latest History Video Blog! http://is.gd/aJjX5 #hvb

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