Christmas Treasure Hunt: Elves of the Valley
Christmas Treasure Hunt: Elves of the Valley
Schirmeck
How to make a painting speak? The example of The Fall of Icarus by Peter Bruegel. A painting offers a message and engages in dialogue with the
spectator. To decode this message, Bernard Pfizer proposes a method of analysis that opens up new interpretative horizons, through one of the strangest paintings in the history of painting: The Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel (1525-1569). To escape from the island where King Minos is holding them prisoner, Daedalus and his son Icarus make wings. But Icarus gets too close to the sun and "burns his wings"...
spectator. To decode this message, Bernard Pfizer proposes a method of analysis that opens up new interpretative horizons, through one of the strangest paintings in the history of painting: The Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel (1525-1569). To escape from the island where King Minos is holding them prisoner, Daedalus and his son Icarus make wings. But Icarus gets too close to the sun and "burns his wings"...
