A Journey

I've been thinking a lot about choices and direction lately (it's probably because I'll soon be leaving my '20s, and those two topics seem to come up a lot in one's '20s and '30s).

For some reason I immediately thought about these two images from Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Flemish Renaissance painter (I'm not an expert on Renaissance art but I remember these images from a high school text book).

I can't really pinpoint why these two images came to mind but there's definitely something about the theme of journey in both of these paintings.  More to ponder . . .

On a side note, isn't it amazing the vivid stories both these paintings tell you?  I find it helpful to ask a lot of questions to get at the stories.

I also find it helpful to add a soundtrack to art (take an iPod to the museum one day - it's a delight for the senses) . . . my selection would be Ludovico Einaudi's Nuvole Bianche.

 

"The Fall of Icarus" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.  Image via gordonbrander.com 

"Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.  Image gordonbrander.com