jacob jordaens ... the satyr and the peasant ...

he worked on the theme at least five times ... was the fable particularly important to him, or to his clients, in some way that we no longer understand ?

erasmus published this fable and many others in his adagia of 1500 ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagia

https://archive.org/stream/proverbschieflyt00blaniala#page/n199/mode/2up/search/satyr

... the adagia must have been a go-to-source for lots of artists in the subsequent century  ... think of brueghel's netherlandish proverbs ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlandish_Proverbs

or maybe hans hoffman ...

https://twitter.com/veracausa9/status/951571340993224706

... all long before jordaens' versions from about 1620

... wikipedia carries an excellent article on the fable, all of its tellings and interpretations ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satyr_and_the_Traveller

... and here's an excellent compilation of images of jordaens' pictures

http://markfrm.blogspot.com/2014/12/jacob-jordaens-1593-1678-flemish.html

three months in tenby ... stuff since we moved

andrea kowch ... in no particular order

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/american_gothic_the_magical_realism_of_andrea_kowch

https://www.facebook.com/andrea.kowch.artist/

felipe jesus consalvos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_Jesus_Consalvos

https://www.fleisher-ollmangallery.com/available_works_by/felipe_jesus_consalvos

i found the yellow brick road

i never owned captain beefheart's safe as milk but this tune lodged in my memory ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz3WJ1l1dNM




and this evening the dormant tune suddenly popped out of the infinite space between my ears ... and i wondered about the lyrics ... and who might have written them ... and then i found this link ...

http://www.beefheart.com/herb-bermann-the-mystery-man-from-the-magic-band/