Why is this picture 'Fire' full of meat? Joachim Beuckelaer's 'Four Elements' | National Gallery
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Clara, one of the National Gallery’s Young Producers, presents a 10-minute talk about Joachim Beuckelaer’s ‘The Four Elements: Fire’.
This is one of a set of four pictures which take as their theme the four elements of 'Earth', 'Water', 'Air' and 'Fire'.
In the art of the Low Countries in the later 16th and 17th centuries it became common to symbolise the elements by references to the natural world. Here, seductive representations of market produce for sale or for cooking are combined with relevant Biblical episodes.
'Fire' is one of Beuckelaer's most ambitious works, combining the still life of haunches of meat and poultry being prepared for cooking on the fire beyond with a dramatic use of perspective constructions involving multiple vanishing points.
Beyond the kitchen Christ is shown seated with Martha and Mary.
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Love this presentation. Clara is wonderful. It made me happy that after all of the allegory, she arrived at basically "It's probably just a painting of a day in the big house." (But with Jesus.)
Amazing how one seemingly simple picture can be interpreted in such different ways.
Just like my English teacher often said: We're still confused, but on a higher level.
a very promising speaker ..great talk
Loved Clara and her shyness. She looked very authentic during this “minimasterclass”. This 10 minutes format seems much more pleasant and appropriate to CZcams than those 30 minutes lectures that The National Gallery is used to post. I hope you encourage Clara and other young people to produce more videos like this.
While I wholeheartedly agree with you about Clara's NG debut in this format which helps her become more comfortable, I think you're wrong regarding the time.
While your whirlwind life makes deep contemplation and settling in to learn about art untenable, some of us save the video for another moment when we do have time to enjoy the curator's presentation and interpretation of the art. Just because you don't have time, take time or make time doesn't mean the rest of us are unable to make things we enjoy a priority. That's just you.
I hope the people in your life don't get similarly shortchanged.
Brilliant presentation - informative and highly engaging. 👌✨✨✨
Just sat in front of the painting in the gallery and listened to the talk - excellent!
Lovely presentation. Never paid much attention to this room and now Im intrigued so I will take a closer look on my next visit. Thanks!
Well done Clara for a brilliant talk!!!✨
This speaker is just fabulous. I’m so enjoying listening to all her talks. Total star.
I'd love to see interpretations of all four Elements!
If you search for 'joachim beuckelaer the four elements" (video in Google), there are plenty of them, particularly about symbolism.
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A terrific presentation. The interpretations just sound like bs to me 😉, but delivered in delightfully energetic and entertaining manner. More from this presenter please!
That was excellent! Thanks.
A fascinating talk. Just watching these short lectures one learns so much.Thank you National Gallery. Two or three times a week since the pandemia began, I have been watching lectures like this. I feel now as if I had done a university course in Art history!!!!!
Thank you Clara for a very interesting talk and on about the different meaning of hanging birds. Please do some more like this
Wonderful, Thank you Clara!
Thank you Clara for this very informative talk. I liked it when you said that there are no right answers in interpreting art. Indeed, art is very subjective, but it is very worthwhile to take the time to explore the paintings we see when in a museum. And it’s fun to try to decipher the artist’s intention or the story being told in the painting.
That was nice, thanks!
Great presentation. Charming and informative presenter
What an interesting talk about some intriguing paintings.
Fantastic presentation!
Love this presenter - she has a lot of personality!
That was great! Thank you.
Excellent talk - erudite, witty and charming. Please do more
Thank you Will, and more to come!
I loved it. Great job!
A great talk, she is a natural.
Wonderful presenter! Smart, insightful, funny! Onward, Clara!!
so cute, thank you :)
excellent
Clara’s evident shyness has great charm, and she makes her points succinctly. Perhaps a very quick mention of Northern European genre painting more generally, and its frequent religious/moralising messages, could give a wider context?
Good afternoon-bLindo video. I am Brazilian with a European soul...
and ring the bell.
4 marvelous paintings Flanders lost in 2001...
what's those birds name
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vogelen still means to copulate in dutch :D
Thanks, pretty girl.
Nicely done. So people copulated back then . . . who knew? 😉
the first 20 seconds of this video are oddly (out of focus? probably not... but very fuzzy nonetheless).
Interesting talk but the video should focus more on the painting! I feel I didn't really get a good look at the painting itself.
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I live far from Culture and art. Thanks for feeding me.
The second interpretation is too farfetched. I'll go for the first and the third ones simultaneously. It could really be either.
Please choose a presenter with a more agreeable voice.
Did you pay to have this video made for you, you ingrate?
She is an expert.
there is nothing wrong with her voice! you sad little troll!