Talk:The Hunters in the Snow

Cropped

The picture is clipped, see Eduard Michel: Bruegel, Paris 1931, pl. 21. The tree to the left is cut of in this version - why? Perolofdk (talk) 21:05, 19 February 2008 (UTC) Perolofdk Perolofdk (talk) 21:05, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

• True - commons has a fuller but much more faded version; but i think the old one is better to use.Johnbod (talk) 21:08, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

  

• If the Vienna Museum accept the use here - should they then not want to deliver an acceptable picture? How to get them involved? Perolofdk (talk) 14:06, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Under US law they have no say. I'll add a note. Johnbod (talk) 14:21, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Climate Change section

Climate Change section seems out of place here. It contains nothing specific to this painting, and quite a lot about other paintings and artists. Also, it seems to take William James Burroughs as its primary source, without actually citing any of his work, while dismissing his opinion as "quite wrong". Should this be rewritten and perhaps moved to either the main "Climate Change" entry or its own entry as "Evidence of climate change in art"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cdm5599 (talk • contribs) 10:52, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I've taken this out. Crucially it had nothing to say about the painting itself. It came across as something that might be copied-and-pasted to any number of similar paintings, it duplicates work in little ice age, and it simply wasn't very well written. There is a place for a paragraph about Hunters in the Snow and climate change, but it would have to be the work of a better writer. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 17:36, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

That is bandy, not ice hockey

Hope this doesn't shatter too many interested parties, but the players in the foreground are not playing ice hockey, that is bandy which uses a ball, possibly the most important forerunner of ice hockey's development, though bandy in its informal shape and style was commonly called "hockey on the ice". The two sports developed separately, but bandy was not played as an organized sport until the late 1800's in England, UK, and ice hockey has been pinpointed as having had its start as an organized sport during that same time, but according to the International Ice Hockey Federation this is now accepted as having taken place in Montreal, Quebec in Canada. Both sports share a similar origin and their early forerunner was similar but variable across the world where these types of stick and ball games were played on natural ice surfaces. There is only two concern of mine: it's not clear to me whether the bandy players are wearing ice skates, and the two players closest to the observer appear to be playing with a shorter stick which appears to more closely resemble a Veniki broom which is now still used in Moscow broomball, and I can't tell if they are using ice skates either. CheckersBoard (talk) 22:53, 13 November 2022 (UTC)