Talk:Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

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"The painting seems to depict humankind's indifference to suffering by highlighting the ordinary events which continue to occur, despite the unobserved death of the mythic figure Icarus, who is seen drowning in the bottom right area of the sea." - This seems to be a better description of the W.H. Auden poem's attitude toward the painting than the painting itself. For example, in the article on the Auden poem, it says "Art historians maintain that for Brueghel, Icarus was an example of foolishness, not suffering, but Auden was writing the poem as a 20th-century observer, not a scholar." which seems contradictory to the above assertion.