'The Land of Cockaigne' (after Breughel)
'The Land of Cockaigne' (after Breughel)
Category: Paintings
Artist: Chris Gollon
Subject: Homage
Year of Work: 2002
Media: mixed media on canvas
Size: 36" x 48"
SOLD
Private Collection, UK
This painting is a cover version of Breughel’s Land of Cockaigne, painted by Chris Gollon in his own style. As a painter of the absurd, medieval myths such as Narragonia (Fool’s Paradise) and more recently The Land of Cockaigne have always appealed to Gollon’s sense of the ridiculous.
The Land of Cockaigne is a medieval fantasy of the perfect life. It is spectacular land of plenty where it rains meat pies every 4 hours, the rivers turn from milk to fine wine in the afternoons, fences are made of sausages, the roof tiles are pies, the weather is always temperate and all stay forever young. However human frailty might still abide there, were such a place inhabited, as can be seen from both Breughel’s and Gollon’s visions of Cockaigne.
