The real hero: Bruegel.
Peter Bruegel (about 1525 ~ 1569) is a Dutch painter. 1569 died in Brussels on September 5th (or 9th). Bruegel studied in P. Cook Van Ulster, and his wife was able to teach her how to paint watercolors on fine linen. /kloc-in 0/550, cook van ulster died, and Bruegel went to work for H. Kirk, an Antwerp painter and publisher. Kirk is a landscape painter and runs a painting shop. He once printed Bruegel's works and cooperated with him for a long time.
155 1 year, Bruegel became a painter of the Antwerp Painters' Association. Soon after, he went to Italy to study in France. 1552, arrived in southern Italy, crossed the ocean to Sicily and arrived in Palermo. 1553 collaborated with the famous artist G. Clovio on Art of Rome (lost). On her way home, she also roamed the countryside in northern Italy and the Alps. Judging from the existing works, her travel sketches mainly focus on scenery, and her observation and description of nature are very accurate, which can be used as the material for future creation. Her works in landscape sketch (1552, Berlin, Studio of the National Gallery) are the earliest works with time.
1554 In the spring, Bruegel set foot on his way home. /kloc-published a large-scale landscape group painting in Antwerp in 0/555.
From 65438 to 0556, Bruegel's creation began to shift from scenery to the educational and satirical composition of characters. Drawing lessons from H. Bos's works, she adopts the expression method of combining dreams with realistic images, selects themes from folk proverbs and legends, and integrates serious themes into humorous expressions. This change reflects her concern about the social situation in the Netherlands, and her works are such as "Copperprint eat small fish Eating Big Fish" (1557, collected by Albertina) and "The Sacrifice of Meat and the Struggle of Lent" (65438).
On the one hand, Bruegel provided prints for Koch's local painting shop, and at the same time, he was engaged in painting. Generally speaking, before 1562, he did more printmaking, and then he devoted himself to painting. She attaches great importance to the observation and research of life, and often goes to the countryside with friends to participate in peasant activities and collect creative materials. 1563, she married a teacher's daughter, Cook Van Ulster, and moved to Brussels where she spent the last six years. At this time, on the eve of the reasonable Netherlands revolution and the outbreak period, her art is becoming more and more mature, with realistic people as the center, and her description of nature and social life is integrated. In her works, she exposed the cruel persecution of the Dutch people by the Spanish army and the Inquisition in various forms and inspired the people to fight. She found the best way to express her thoughts and feelings in describing peasant life, and was known as "peasant Bruegel". The main works of this period include The Preaching of John the Baptist (Budapest, Art Museum, 1566), Farmers' Wedding and Farmers' Dance (Vienna, Art History Museum, 1567), Hunter in the Snow, Dark Sun and Pasture (1567). Museum of Naples) (see color map [Winter Hunting (1565)] and the dance on the gallows (also known as the magpie on the gallows, 1568, darmstadt Museum), etc.
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Bruegel is the ancestor of a famous painter family in the history of western European art. Her two boys are painters, and many people later engaged in painting.