Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Flemish painter of peasants and wide landscapes who hid the fall of Icarus in a corner of the sea.
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How do you paint loneliness?
How do you paint sadness and loneliness with no face and no symbol? From Bruegel’s Icarus to Picasso’s blue and Friedrich’s ship, and why every viewer finishes a painting with their own life.