A world in dissolution deserved better of the artist than an uneasy aesthetic isolationism which identified virtue in art with the rural western idyl of Thomas Benton, the backwoods folklore of John Steuart Curry, and the somewhat satirical ancestor worship of Grant Wood. (visual-arts-cork.com)
A clear reference to the dark castle brooding over the industrial idyl that appears on the Pilsner label. (slaw.ca)
Bored with having a domestic idyl shoved down your throat by the likes of Kirsty Alsopp and Jamie Oliver? (personalcareermanagement.com)