Showing posts with label Van Gogh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Van Gogh. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Drawings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

 Avarice 1556
Spring 1565
Mountain Landscape by a River 1553
 
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A few years ago, I bought an old copy of Pieter Bruegel The Drawings (Complete Edition) by Ludwig Munz , a Phaidon book from 1961. The book is thick and a little musty, but I never get tired of looking at these drawings (just as I never tire of  Goya's Los Caprichos of 1799). Shown above are some examples that I found online. (Follow link to see more.) The landscape drawings, in particular, have proven to be a wonderful reference source for me as they show the architecture of mountains and streams from afar.
I always think about Van Gogh when I see Bruegel's drawings.
He must have studied them intensely. I can see a definite Bruegel influence of style and subject matter in Van Gogh's own drawings.

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