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
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In spite of the I auspicious reason for making it, the painting turned out well.
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