Bir yıl daha yaşanmışların ve zamanın esiri
olarak geride kalmaya hazırlanıyor. Yeni yılın başlangıcını 1 Ocak kılan herhangi
bir doğal emare yok. Modern yılbaşı kutlamalarının kökeni antik Roma'ya tarihleniyor. İsmini Ocak (İngilizce: January) ayına veren iki yüzlü Roma
tanrısı Janus bu aya sembolik bir önem döşüyor. Değişim ve başlangıçların tanrısı
olan Janus’un bir yüzü geçmişe, diğeri ise geleceğe doğru bakıyor.
Aynı mevsimsel döngülerden geçecek ama ayrı
günler deneyimlenecek bir yıl yaklaşıyor. Yeni yıldan önce geçmiş ve gelecek mevsimleri,
yaşantıları ve sanatı anmak adına üstat Bruegel’in 1565’te yaptığı, yılın farklı
zamanlarını tasvir ettiği tablo serisini paylaşayım dedim. Altı parçalık
serinin sadece beş tanesi günümüze ulaşmış. Köylülerin gündelik uğraşlarını ve hayatlarını resmeden Bruegel kendi çağının sıradan günlerini kaydettiği ahşap panolarda geçmişin parçalarını kaydediyor, geçmişten kesitleri fırçasıyla ölümsüzleştiriyor.
Another year is about to end. Soon we are off to repeat the all familiar cycle of a year. Why does the new year start on January the 1st? Nature didn't set this, it is all man's doing. The modern celebration of the new year can be traced back to ancient times. The Romans had a two faced God named Janus. The month January is named after him. Janus' one face is looking back, to the past, and the other one is faced to the future. It is the god of doorways and beginnings.
We'll experience the same cycles all over again in this upcoming year. Winter will give way to spring and spring will lay the grounds for summer. And then autumn, and then -yet again- the winter. Before the new year I'd like to celebrate all past and future seasons, all kinds of experiences and art. And in the name of my little celebration I invite Master Bruegel to my humble corner of the internet. Back in 1565 Bruegel painted six panels (unfortunately only five of them made it to our century) in which he depicted different times of a year. In these paintings we see the ordinary lives of peasants set in different seasons. Buregel saves moments of humanity in these precious paintings, immortalizes slices of past with his brush.
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Another year is about to end. Soon we are off to repeat the all familiar cycle of a year. Why does the new year start on January the 1st? Nature didn't set this, it is all man's doing. The modern celebration of the new year can be traced back to ancient times. The Romans had a two faced God named Janus. The month January is named after him. Janus' one face is looking back, to the past, and the other one is faced to the future. It is the god of doorways and beginnings.
We'll experience the same cycles all over again in this upcoming year. Winter will give way to spring and spring will lay the grounds for summer. And then autumn, and then -yet again- the winter. Before the new year I'd like to celebrate all past and future seasons, all kinds of experiences and art. And in the name of my little celebration I invite Master Bruegel to my humble corner of the internet. Back in 1565 Bruegel painted six panels (unfortunately only five of them made it to our century) in which he depicted different times of a year. In these paintings we see the ordinary lives of peasants set in different seasons. Buregel saves moments of humanity in these precious paintings, immortalizes slices of past with his brush.
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| Karda Avcılar (Ocak) | The Hunters in the Snow (January) |
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| Kasvetli Gün (Şubat) | Gloomy Day (February) |
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| Saman Hasadı (Temmuz) | Haymaking (July) |
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| Hasat Zamanı (Ağustos) | The Corn Harvest (August) |
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| Sürünün Geri Dönüşü (Kasım) | The Return of the Herd (November) |
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