Please view the full size painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Write a brief summary of t
Please view the full size painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Write a brief summary of the Greek myth the Fall of Icarus.
- Why this painting is called "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"?
- Does anyone in the painting seem to be paying attention to Icarus's plunge into the water?
- How prominent has the painter made the event of Icarus's fall?
- What meanings do such details suggest?
Now read a poem by William Carlos Williams, "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,"
- Does Williams capture the feeling of the painting?
- How do Brueghel and Williams reinterpret the myth of Icarus for their own times?
- How have these artists "made the myth their own": understood it, interpreted it, and somehow extended its meaning?
Finally, there are thousands of works of art based on mythology. Find one more example of either a painting or sculpture by doing some research online. Don't use any of the images from any of the required websites in the mythology assignments or on this page.
- List the title and artist.
- Write a paragraph in your own words describing the work of art.
- Write a paragraph summarizing the myth the work of art is based on.
- Describe in your own words whether the artist interprets the myth. Does the work of art capture the myth's meaning?
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