THE GREAT BREUGHEL EXHIBITION IN ANTWERP
Jack
Bruegel, Breughel or Brueghel?
This name from art history will certainly sound familiar to everyone,
though it is often forgotten just how many artists it refers to. In
addition to the well-known "Peasant Breugel", literature mentions a
"Flower Breugel", a "Velvet Breugel", and even a "Hell Breugel".
The exhibition is looking to clear up the confusion surrounding the
Bruegel family.
The Breugel family does not owe it's fame exclusively to the oeuvre of
the father, Pieter Breugel the Elder. Indeed, the work of his sons
Pieter the Younger ("the Hell"), and Jan the Elder ("the Velvet") can
take equal credit. Along with Peter Paul Rubens, they dominated
artistic life around 1600. They treated the most diverse subjects:
landscapes, flower pieces, still lifes, rural scenes and scenes
derived from profane and religious literature.
The work of Breugel has been shown at scores of major retrospective
exhibitions of Flemish painting and it has been the subject of many a
scientific study. Never before has there been a double exhibition.
There is no single way of presenting their art; Jan Breugel the Elder
is generally seen as an artist who achieved technical perfection in
his flower painting. What he realized in the landscape genre and in
still lifes is frequently overlooked. And Pieter is all too often
dismissed as a not very original imitator of the work of his father.
This exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum of Antwerp shows for the first
time the diversity, originality and autonomy of the oeuvre of both
artists. A hundred works from numerous museums and private collections
go on show.
From May 3 until July 26
information at (3) 2387809
Jack
rudi...@a-1.be
Thank you for your info on Breughel.
If you are interested in Painting from the flemish primitives, I am looking
for "candidates" and "volunteers" to complete my site:
http://www.a-1.be/arts/painters/
I would only need some bio's on the related painters. If you are interested to
add your name on the page, drop me a note.
Thanks
Rudi
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Skully
A very fine introduction, Jack, to what is going to be a major event
for Ancient Flemish Art.
The exposition was at the Villa Hügel (Germany), from which I could
get the beautiful catalogue.
If I am not mistaken, it is now in Vienna, which, of course, possesses
the richest collections of Pieter Brueghel the Elder.
In September begins another famous exhibition in Bruges: "From Memlinc
to Pourbus" which will be a kind of continuation of the big Memlinc
exhibition.
It is about Flemish Art in Bruges, 16th century.
Bernard Huyvaert
bernard....@skynet.be
http://surf.to/bernardhuyvaert