In the primary identified description of Bosch's artworks, in 1560 Felipe de Guevara wrote that Bosch was regarded simply as "the originator of monsters and chimeras".
In the beginning... More > 17-th century, the Dutch Karel van Mander explained Bosch's art as "marvelous and extraordinary fantasies"; nevertheless, he finished that the paintings are "frequently less enjoyable than frightening to look at."
In the 20-th century, researchers have come to sight Bosch's vision as fewer unbelievable, and acknowledged that his art reflects the conventional religious faith systems of his time. His images of sinning people, his view of Heaven and Hell are now perceived as consistent with those of late medieval didactic literature and habits.
Nerveless, some critics notice Bosch as example of medieval surrealist, and parallels are repeatedly made with the modern Spanish artist Salvador Dali. Other scholars try to interpret his images using the words of Freudian psychology.< Less
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch Study Guide consists of approx. 62 pages of summaries and analysis on Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller.
1970: La motrice di un treno e i suoi tre macchinisti svaniscono nel nulla mentre attraversano una galleria posta lungo una tratta minore sugli Appennini toscani.
Un anno dopo l'incidente quella... More > stessa tratta viene chiusa per sempre e il piccolo paese che si trova al suo capolinea, Monteflauto, diventa presto una ghost town.
2011: Una troupe televisiva specializzata in indagini misteriose riscopre questa vecchia notizia, stranamente passata sotto silenzio quasi totale, e decide di recarsi sul posto per realizzare un servizio esclusivo.
Che fine ha fatto il treno fantasma? Quale segreto nasconde Monteflauto? Perché alcuni vecchi superstiziosi parlano di presenze diaboliche avvistate nella selva oscura attorno al paese?< Less
Poor Marc De Jolay. He is chronically depressed and stuck in the Middle Ages. And to make matters worse, he is dead. Part satire and part allegory, Crowskin: a Medieval Travesty is a paean to... More > melancholia, self-loathing and bad luck. Illustrated with drawings by Hieronymus Bosch, Marc's descent into his own personal hell is narrated with the wisdom of someone who has outlived his own death. He takes a jaundiced pilgrimage through the Grail legend, the Holy Land and, inexplicably, the Tarot deck. He eventually becomes Grand Master of a Military Order almost, but not quite totally unlike the Knights Templar and meets an anachronistic demise at the hands of some nice gentlemen from the Spanish Inquisition.< Less
An artist who works in multiple media, Amie Clute focuses on psychological tensions held by the figure. The figures stand alone, imposing a sense of seclusion, but the works together offer a... More > meandering thread that allows the viewer to find his own relationships to history and unconscious states of feeling.
Having grown up in a show business family, Clute traces memory resonances into a theatre of painting, drawing, sculpture and photographic imaging. Clute says about her work: "I'm compelled to add the element of my touch, a sense of motion, and the sensuality of materials." While informing her art with images culled from all periods of art history, she works to bring figurative imagery into contemporary relevance. Among her inspirations are Hans Holbein the Younger, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Hieronymus Bosch, Lucian Freud, Louise Bourgeois, Susan Hauptman, Alice Neel and Robert Gober.< Less
An artist who works in multiple media, Amie Clute focuses on psychological tensions held by the figure. The figures stand alone, imposing a sense of seclusion, but the works together offer a... More > meandering thread that allows the viewer to find his own relationships to history and unconscious states of feeling.
Having grown up in a show business family, Clute traces memory resonances into a theatre of painting, drawing, sculpture and photographic imaging. Clute says about her work: "I'm compelled to add the element of my touch, a sense of motion, and the sensuality of materials." While informing her art with images culled from all periods of art history, she works to bring figurative imagery into contemporary relevance. Among her inspirations are Hans Holbein the Younger, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Hieronymus Bosch, Lucian Freud, Louise Bourgeois, Susan Hauptman, Alice Neel and Robert Gober.< Less
These are portraits of 44 artists that Fritz Janschka has admired over a lifetime of painting. Janschka is one of six founders of the art movement started in Vienna in 1946 known as the Vienna... More > School of Fantastic Realism. At the very beginning of his career, he painted a self-portrait in which Dürer, Holbein and Rembrandt are playing a board game on his head, vying for his artistic allegiances. In this new series of artists’ portraits, which he began at the end of his ninth decade, he wanted to pay homage to those predecessors who have fed his imagination and taught him their techniques. Some he heard whispering in the back of his mind to “try these colors” or “see what you can do with this idea.” After painting a Paul Klee watercolor, he wanted to test his skill on one of the older masters, so he next tried Hieronymus Bosch. This led to a series of forty-nine portraits of six centuries of his beloved old masters (and mistresses). These works were painted between 2010 and 2012...the year Fritz turned 93.< Less
