For today's Coffee Hour lets consider the play activities we loved as a child. To illustrate this diary I found this wonderful 1560 painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder on Wikipedia. Large Size Photo
'Children's Games' is a complex painting with about 250 children involved in over 80 games. Bruegel uses a high eye level to view the scene from above. This allows him to arrange the children into smaller groups which may be viewed separately without any overlap. The viewer can then clearly identify every child in the picture.
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Beyond the fold lets talk about how we spent our time playing as children, while enjoying this
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'Children's Games' is an example of a visual metaphor. Further, it contains the classic elements of a parable: orientation, disorientation, and reorientation.
The orientation is the common town centre where it is expected to see adults going about their business. But the disorientation is that it is filled with children engaging in a wide range of active play. Some are playing rough, some alone, some gentle, some, are are competitive.
In the cognitive blend of the reorientation one grasps that adult behavior is reflected in the behavior we exhibit in our play as a child.
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