Read and Interpret Exercise

The Subject of the line is The Old Masters. You find the subject in the second line.
The words of the sentence are not in the “correct order”. Subject is not fully found there. Aud
Auden’s argument is that life goes on after a catastrophic event. People turn their head away from tragedy especially if it does not directly affect them. Over time the emotions of the events change.
To support his argument, he provides evidence from the painting.
The title means “The Museum of beautiful arts”.
The Old Masters in terms of art include: Brueghel, DeVinci, Rembrant, Michelangelo. Thy can express pain and suffering in their paintings because they have experienced it.
Old Master’s is capitalized because it represents a specific group of people and the title is a form of respect for these people.
Auden starts with the general in his poem until he gets more specific as the poem progresses. And then even more specific. 1939
Brueghel’s Icarus is the painting that Auden uses to create his argument.
I agree with Auden’s thesis. I also agree with the fact that over time, the remembrance of these historical events will change. I remember sitting in History class with Mr. Gibbs. He introduced the topic of the next unit,
He was living through this period in England and seeing events involving Hitler. This may have sparked his mind about how true his argument is.
Living in Europe, he saw how the Jews were being treated so it effected his point of view.
It was not an easy lifestyle to be an artist. It was understood that it would be challenging. But they understand the pain and suffering and there were more likely able to see and respond to other people’s suffering.
The Old Masters are held in high esteem because they are able to connect with pain and suffering and are able to reflect that in their artwork. They can sympathize and empathize.
Auden is in a museum that only has the artwork of the Old Masters. He is looking for the pain, suffering and religious paintings. His view is affected because these are the type of paintings that you only see.
He points to specifics within Bruagle’s Icerus. For example he says, “everything turns away quite leisurely to the disaster.” When you look back at the painting you do see that.
In order to be successful as a painter they really needed to have a patron. If you did not, you had a more difficult time. Being accepted or not accepted was important.
The Old Masters have styles to their paintings which could allow for different interpretations. The technique and realism show different interpretation because you look for different things in the paintings.
Through light, shadow, composition, color, darks, perspective, and subject it portrays a message that can be “read”.
We would expect to see a central painting of Icuras because he is the main focus of the story.
Interestingly, we see a large scene with Icuras barely noticeable in a small portion of the painting that isn’t even centered.
The colors of the painting are warm and it doesn’t portray that there is anything wrong happening.
The painting almost wants you to look away from the main focus of the story and the title.
The other people depicted in the artwork are not really reacting at all to what has happened close to them.
Because they are not noticing what is happening, this painting definitely supports Auden’s interpretation.
His view of the painting flows really well with the context clues of the scene. And According to the story, Brueghel’s art seems to have a different historical and cultural view of the other’s reaction to the tragedy.
Ovid, on the other hand, is depicting the people interested in what is happening, and stopping in awe at what had happened.
If I were to talk to the author, I would respond to them with questions on what he wrote so that I could hear their train of thought in person about it. It is more interesting to hear what they have to say about it outside of the print.
Today, we make assumptions about religions. These assumptions cause others to challenge the beliefs of others just to prove their own religion or belief.