English&Art

Ship of Fools, Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1490 - 1500 Dutch Renaissance wouldn't be Dutch Renaissance without Bosch! The overall image is of a group of fools adrift in the sea of life, eating and drinking to excess. They are without morals and rudderless despite the church being on board. They all are lacking direction in life and oblivious to the men overboard...

The Blind Leading the Blind, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568 The blind leading the blind" is an idiom and a metaphor in the form of a parallel phrase, it is used to describe a situation where a person who knows nothing is getting advice and help from another person who knows almost nothing. Bruegel painted The Blind the year before his death. It has a bitter, sorrowful tone, which may be related to the establishment of the Council of Troubles in 1567 by the government of the Spanish Netherlands...

The Egg Dance, Pieter Aertsen, 1552 An egg dance is a traditional Easter game in which eggs are laid on the ground or floor and the goal is to dance among them damaging as few as possible. Another form of egg dancing was a springtime game depicted in the painting of Pieter Aertsen. The goal was to roll an egg out of a bowl while keeping within a circle drawn by chalk and then flip the bowl to cover the egg. This had to be done with the feet without touching the other objects placed on the floor...

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, Édouard Manet, 1882 New word - reflection Meaning: the production of an image by or as if by a mirror; an image given back by a reflecting surface. Examples: The man in the reflection looks pretty much like younger Manet himself...

Outskirts of Paris near Montmartre, Vincent Van Gogh, 1887 Van Gogh moved to Paris in March 1886 where he shared Theo's rue Laval apartment in Montmartre and studied at Fernand Cormon's studio. In June the brothers took a larger flat at 54 rue Lepic. In Paris, Vincent painted portraits of friends and acquaintances, still...