Feb 28, 2019
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Harvesters, 1565, 119 x 162 cm, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art He used elements as in Bosch and Patimir's work. But he never used naked statues or classical figures. He draw popular culture, folklor and Belgium was the key for him. 'Genre Painting' popularized in 17th century. He created landscapes that are defined as cosmic, compared to landscape, people stated so small in the painting and this was a metaphore about the human presence in nature, the sense of immensity. The overlapping branches, trees and objects effectively echoes the endless variesy of nature.
