These days, we all take oodles of photos. Research has indicated that 99.88% of these are a waste of pixels, but they give us pleasure, so hey! Why not? Every now and then I take a photo on my phone that reminds me of some painting or other.
When I was a young lad, we used to get a decent sized framed print of a ‘great master’ painting delivered every few weeks to our primary school classroom by a van from Plymouth City Museum – over a term we’d see maybe half a dozen such works. Proof of the cultural enrichment this afforded me is the fact that I still recognise some of these when they turn up on University Challenge as part of a ‘picture bonus’ round of questions. No doubt the impoverishment of our local authorities has long since seen this service to our youth withdrawn.
Anyway, just yesterday I snapped a scene that immediately made me think of a work by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the marvellous ‘The Hunters In The Snow’. My photo is in the comments.
Have you taken a snap that brings a classic painting to mind?
