W. H. Auden
The British-American poet who saw Bruegel’s Icarus in Brussels and wrote about suffering nobody notices.
Books
Another Time1940His shorter poems from 1936 to 1939, “Musée des Beaux Arts” and “Funeral Blues” among them.
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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.