Agreed! They are stunning! These Photos hardly do them justice!

birthdays

Super bowl!

Thanksgiving

any celebration that involves a dinner!

Holidays with family

bon fires

birthdays

My New Year's Eve party for the theatre community.

Christmas Eve

birthdays

anything involving food

Thanksgiving is my favorite!

Thanksgiving

Anywhere we play games

Pool parties!

anything involving food

museum opening parties

Family Reunion

Anything that includes my family all under one roof and just spending time together.

Family reunions

Christmas Eve

mardi gras!

Saturday is Drusila’s birthday?

docent holiday and sring get togethers

food ,family, food

Small dinner parties with friends

Dinner parties with friends, where I cook food from the country I've just visited. :-(

Me too, Kathy Dolan!!

My Husbands birthday! I always go all out

Anything with great wine

Rosy cheeks!

Happy faces!

everyone smiling

Making butter?

Children are gathered to hear the fool make rude noises with his pot.

Is this Dutch? Is he stirring a honey pot?

anticipation

I love seeing those smiling faces--you don't often see that in old paintings.

Is someone in the doorway?

Hugging the man

Look at the adults peeking out from the doorway…

excitement, can almost hear the children gigglding

everyone close together

The teenager is trying to pick the fool's pocket

painterly brushwork, common neighborhood scene, crowded composition

Kathy Dolan--yes! So it's either a noisemaker or some kind of treat he's got there.

I think about our parties where the kids are excitedly awaiting a squirt of whipped cream from the can.

The figure behind him looks like he is “up to something”…

Having a wonderful time! Like a modern reaction to the ice cream truck

person wearing red hat seems to be the photobomber

I think of the noise a straw makes pumping it up and down in a plastic lid on a drink.

The left hand of the boy behind the man is out of proportion. Too big.

Who is the woman in the doorway?

Is he pinning a "tail" on the "fool"?

imperfect teeth

Like a party clown

The fool seems happy to be the center of attention.

I think musical artists Fleet Foxes uses Pieter Bruegel's art for some album artwork too!

Following the pied piper

The bending of all the trees to frame the group is interesting.

Trees like early Piet Mondrian

So men kept their pipes on their hats?

Utensils/pipes in their hats?

The person in the kitchen!

The quiet observer in the corner.

the observer

hugger

ditto I would be the quiet observer

Merry drinker

The party manager

A laugher

Love the hugger!

Cornelia's portrait is fascinating

robert henri admired Hals work

people

The one everyone is still talking about weeks later.

Fun people

wine

good food and drink

interesting guests

Food

Good ambience

lots of laughter

Food and drink

food!

Good company, good snacks, good beverages!

music

Good Food and Drink

friends, food, drink

A relaxed atmosphere

good personalities

Confortable ambience

A great playlist!

coming together to share

Joyful occassion

Music!

a vibe check

Good people

People you want to see. Good food

theme

Lively conversation

Agreed @Jillian -- a vibe check lol

I love a good celebration/party theme on occassion...

Gracious host who makes everyone feel at home.

People honestly liking each other's company

people you enjoy being with

Art on display

I love good ambience—lighting is so important!

Celebrating a Cowboys Super Bowl win

Host socializing with everyone

I’m getting more into the decorations as of late.

band practice

Family music night

spontaneous, ordinary evening amped up unexpectedly

family gathering

family playing music together

It's the weekend.

One poor woman is stuck in the kitchen

Maybe a family is preparing for an event.

The family is singing a song about how they're waiting on dinner being made in the background

family spontaneously making musictogether at a family gathering

Saturday night during quarantine

they are gathering before or after dinner while the person in the kitchen is working hard

Something about the 2 persons playing that brought them together

after a 14 day quarantine three family bubbles merged for a blowout celebration

Just an end of day spontaneous family evening.

Long lost cousins or friends

Looks like someone is cooking in the background - good to have food while the musicians are together

It is Friday night!

the baby in the diaper and woman cooking seems like a casual night

could be father son

Chihuahua playing the sphinx. Star of the party

Just think of the memories that child will have.

It looks like a scene from the musical 'American Mariachi', about a daughter forming a groundbreaking all female Mariachi band to recreate a song for her mother's youth to help her remember in her battle with failing memory issues

fixing broken guitar string

Is the woman in the foreground stringing a guitar?

chihuahua is the only still figure and centered in the painting [center lower 3d]

a black cat stalking or a ceramic figurine?

There is such movement in the painting!

I like the way the young women "frame" the men who are the primary music makers. Just like the trees in the scene with the blind hurdy gurdy player.

Cultural details in decoration of the home, woven fabric on coffee table, Virgen hanging on the wall

Woman is not only dancing but singing. (Look at her mouth.)

diagonals add movement

sarape

circular composition, eye keeps traveling around the group

I love the bright shadows.

I don't think I've ever seen an artwork signed with a mailing address.

I see many mural signatures with instagram handles today

Fantastic mural!I want to go see them

Still exists by any chance?

Yes, but painted over for many years

The address reminds me of the practice of including all of the last names of the portrait sitter as proof of their lineage.

But weren’t Los Tres Grandes quite political?

community, life outside the house

In the Hals, characters look out to the viewer--we are there. In the music scene, the viewer is the quiet observer in the corner.

muscular modeling

music

Any excuse for a party, periodic celebrations

Real people in real life.

Activity...not a static scene

connection is through music

The influence of music on people's mood

joyful. music.

adults and children in both

The presence of hands being active in the scenes

they are both colorful in different attributes

celebrating commonalities and passing down traditions

Humans love to laugh and smile

both essentially circular compositions

Gathering in both cases is a real, human desire.

@Kathy Dolan, you beat me to it!

Instruments cue celebration

No social distancing

instruments have evoved

Joy, music, movement, escape

both are busy, crowded, energetic scene at the viewer’s level

The universality of Celebration….every culture has it in their life.

You can hear them

Thank you! Enjoyed today, but I am having to leave a bit early. I will catch the end on the recording.

both have a comic influence

dark colors vs. bright colors

the colors help with the atmosphere of the pictures

I found this by accident. I am glad I joined, and plan to in the future.

Thank you Kate and Auriel! Great program!

Thank you Kate and Auriel! Please continue!

Thank you, this was very interesting. Well doneI

thank you so much

Keep up the good work! We need it!

Thank you Rosemary!

Thank you! Great program

Love this! Thank you for continuing these!

Holiday Print Drive on Saturday

Cumbia with the camera off? I am there!

Do the McNay and Kimbell museums collaborate often?

Sounds like a great event!

thank you