Friday, October 1, 2010

500 word description of "Landscape with the fall of Icarus"

In Pieter Bruegel’s painting “Landscape with the fall of Icarus”, I see a large variety of different colors that are arranged in specific orders so that they create an image of what they represent. There is the sky in the background. It is a large space made up of a green color with somewhat of a bluish tint. The clouds are made up of a faded white that swirl, and almost blend in with the green bluish sky. There is also the sun, which is made up of a bright yellow, which reflects in the sky, and also reflects in the calm, cool blue greenish ocean where boats of all sizes sail in and out of a harbor next to a city. The city seems large with small-medium size buildings, and there is one large building that sits near the edge of where the land and water meet. In the far distance to the right there is a blurry vision of a mountain range that ends near the right middle of the picture. Just a little to the left of it there is a small almost flat island. In the middle of the sea a little bit away from the city, is a large lone gray building, which looks as though it had been sitting there for a long period of time. In front of the gray building, is an almost “cave like” entrance. Also in behind the building are trees, with dark green leaves. Next to the building in the air is a black bird flying low next to it. In the foreground there are men at work. There is a man with a plow attached to a horse, plowing a certain space of land to maybe plant crops. He is also plowing in a curve He also holds a whip to get the horse to keep moving, and move in the direction he wants the horse to move in. Next to the man sitting on top of a smooth rock, is a satchel and a sword in its holder. Behind him, are a couple of plants that kind of look dead, with their roots sticking out of the ground. To this mans right, there is another man holding a rather large stick and some kind of bag on his back. The man is tending sheep, in which a majority of them are white, and there are only three black sheep. That man is staring in the sky as if he found something up there that had interested him. In the foreground at the bottom right, there is a man sitting near the ocean leaning forward as if he were trying to reach something. There is also a large sea turtle going for a swim at the surface of the ocean. Just a little away from the turtle, there is a person who looks as though they had just fell into the water head first, and the only thing that you can see left of him, is his leg.

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