yesterday jeremy and i spent a few hours looking at art by a chap named pieter brueghel who was apparently very influential in the art world for many reasons, one of them being he was the only painter in his time to paint common folk doing common folk things while his colleagues were all painting rich people doing rich people things (sitting with their dogs i think). another reason is he was one of the first people to paint scenery for scenery's sake (instead of just as a pretty background for the rich people/dog combo).some of his paintings are of big common people parties in the woods and some of them are of the worlds craziest hodge podge of things you could just spend a forever looking at them.
LOOK HIM UP!
don't be mad if you write him fan mail and he doesn't write back though, it's not personal he just died five hundred years ago.
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