Rhubarbia: February 2011

Monday, 7 February 2011

Icarus Fell (ii) oil on canvas, 3 x 2 ft
beyond a very tenuous relationship with Breughel's painting,
which is one of my all time favourite works of art, I have no idea what it is.

Something about innocence.

"Se Lest" by Sigur Ros evokes the same sort of feeling in me:
you can listen to it here.

The commission was to recreate a (cropped) image of a small, sold painting:

http://www.etsy.com/transaction/39479874

with some adjustments, on a larger canvas.

More images of the painting at different stages here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mossmottle/sets/72157625697336625/

Related links:

images of Breughel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"

http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=431064

Musee des Beaux Arts by W H Auden

William Carlos Williams in a World of Painters, by Bonnie Costello

Rhubarbia