So far, my blog has been focused more on an informative level rather than interactive. For this post I want to invite the reader to interpret a painting by Pieter Bruegel on their own before I elaborate on the iconography and subjects depicted. I chose a painting that has over 100 idioms that can be recognized, see if you can't find them for yourself.
Netherlandish Proverbs
1559
Oil on oak panel, 117 x 163 cm
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Gemaldegalerie, Berlin
If you're having trouble, here are a few to help get you started:
Notice in the bottom left corner, there is a man pushing his head up against the brick wall. That is to signify that he is trying to achieve the impossible.
In the far left center there is a world turned upside down suggesting that everything is the opposite of what it should be.
The man on the bottom right is crying over spilled milk.
The man on the right in the hen house is feeling the hens to signify counting his eggs before they are hatched.
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