re: #271 WindUpBird

FTFY ;-)

And whoever says art can’t sometimes be silly and still be art is not an artist.

And on that note, I’m pleased to mention one of my all-time favorite paintings, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (possibly) by Pieter Bruegel sometime in the 1500s, a representation of the famous tale of Icarus flying with manmade wings to close to the sun, against his father’s wishes, and plummeting to his death as a result.

You can get a glimpse of Icarus in the lower-right corner, just below the ship.

I laughed for hours after first seeing this work. It still makes me chuckle.