This piece Children’s Games (1560) of work is quite large and shows a vast section of the street scenes. In this painting the children are playing outside, which is a normal day for them. Robert L. Delevoy (1959, p.58) relates “In Children’s Games he shows another facet of everyday, small–town life” .
They are seen playing everything from hoops to playing in the river. Some of the children are playing Leap Fog and Ring Around the Roses. Gibson (2002, p.54) “Children’s Games, in which we gaze down upon a city given over almost entirely to children.”
Bruegel has used quite a pale colour range, as the paints are not really bright. He has captured it at this point in time, showing how children behaved then and how they made very simple games to keep themselves busy.
It shows just how much everything has developed and changed over the years. I am looking at Bruegel work as I am creating my own street scenes for the stills of my story. So I wanted to study artists who have made work around this subject area. The detail in the buildings is so amazing and they are so busy, makes me think I need to have more people around, so it looks more like real life.
