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THE VIRTUAL PIETER BRUEGEL THEME PARK

(Picture: Solaris DVD; see Bruegel in Solaris)

THE VIRTUAL PIETER BRUEGEL THEME PARK

upcoming (with bears and bees)

»The background of Netherlandish Proverbs can be compared to a modern day theme park«, Robert L. Bonn did write. We think of our platform dedicated to Pieter Bruegel the Elder within the online journal Microstory of Art as such a park as well (and as the complementary platform to our Leonardo da Vinci Archipelago): as a virtual theme park, assembling, landscape like, essays and thoughts on the ›anthropologist and social philosopher‹ (Aldous Huxley) among the great artists of all times.
Upcoming are a number of essays and notes, among other things our Sociologist’s Guide to Pieter Bruegel. We seek new perspectives (as we generally are doing here, with Microstory of Art), own personal and essayistic perspectives as well as scientific ones, and in seeking new perspectives, we will encounter Pieter Bruegel and make his acquaintance anew and learn to know him (better), decidedly as 21st citizens, still conversing with a 16th century artist, and listening to what a 16th century artist still has got to say to us.

(note: I have written ›Brueghel‹ a number of times; I am going to write from now on only ›Bruegel‹)

Bruegel in Swiss Writer Robert Walser

Bruegel und Mani Matter

A Historian Looking at Bruegel

»If we do compare Bruegel’s eye with the photographic lens
then we must not forget to add that Bruegel always seized the critical moment
in the movement whereas it is just this moment that the camera rarely captures
and then only by chance.«
(Max J. Friedländer, Van Eyck to Bruegel, vol. 2 [1969], p. 140)
In other words – and this is what we are getting at with this quote –
no need for a ›Live Photo‹ function that might help the today’s photographer
(equipped with an iPhone 6s; picture above: petapixel.com) to capture exactly this:
the moment when a movement best characterizes itself
(but what we are getting at, of course, is also to stimulate, with this,
the ever going on paragone of the arts).

Zwei Fliegen (?) mit einer Klappe schlagen –
ein negatives Verhaltensbeispiel aus den Niederländischen Sprichwörtern
(manchmal auch ›Verkehrte Welt‹ genannt?
Oder vielmehr ein Beispiel für Effizienz, und damit ein Beispiel für
den hier nicht – oder zumindest nicht allein – negatives Verhalten
anprangernden Bruegel?
Der hier weniger ein spezifisches Verhalten analysierte,
als eben Sprache (und den darin sich manifestierenden Geist)?
Und dies mit – wir verwenden ein Wort des Berner
Chansonniers Mani Matter – ›hemdsärmeliger Vernunft‹?

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