This rich, earthy show pays tribute to the genius of many northern European artists who were inspired by Italy’s powerful cultural pull
, where a giant disembodied head has a right eye like a smashed window, a gaping mouth full of people and a screaming man in a boat emerging from the bridge that has been hollowed out of its ear. Meanwhile, a monster fish balances on its bandaged forehead with people doing acrobatic, or maybe sinister, stuff inside its excavated stomach.
Bruegel, by contrast, has traditionally been seen as a peasant painter, untutored and raw. That’s not true. His Landscape with a Village and Cattle at the start of the show is not a peasant’s view of the countryside. It’s a pastoral, a city dweller’s idyll of a peaceful hamlet in the woods. You could dream on this little drawing for hours.
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