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soul people: complex essence for the perplexed
If we go back to the Middle Ages, we enter a realm when reason was put into service of the miraculous, and science, as such, was half fantasy. There was little theorizing. Hieronymous Bosch’s Hell was painted in specific, minute … Continue reading
gaming the arts: collision of entertainment and art?
Are computer games art? The millions of gamers and game designers out there will most likely tell you yes. Artistic principles comprise at least a part of some of the professions in video game design, a list of which can … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernini, Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Chris Crawford Computer Game Design, Christopher Billows, Ernest W. Adams, George Melies, Guillermo del Toro, Henry Jenkins, Hiyao Miyazaki, John Lanchester, Kelle Santiago, Roger Ebert, Shigeru Miyamoto, Stephen Poole, video game design, video game design schools
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utopia: realms of Nowhere
Not satisfied. Not content with the world as it exists, people have always tried to imagine the world as it might become.Utopia has always been on the map of the imagination and every age, with some notable exceptions has created … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Diogenes, Diogens and Plato, George Orwell, Hans Holbein, Hieronymous Bosch, Jan Bruegel the elder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Plato Republic, Raphael School of Athens, Sir Thomas More
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go to hell: gimme shelter
It was the profoundly pessimistic, mad, hopeless, irredeemable, almost insane world of Hieronymus Bosch. Very few paintings in the history of art have so puzzled viewers as the enigmatic, “The Garden of Earthly Delights”; in our own hedonistic, instantly gratifying … Continue reading
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Tagged Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Erasmus, Fraenger, Franz Kafka, Hieronymous Bosch, Laurinda Dixon, Leonardo Da Vinci, Max Horkheimer, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sebastien Brant Ship of Fools, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Fraenger
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sequence and simultaneity
In Hiernonymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, the triptych format creates a play between the panels. It subverts traditonal juxtapositions that occur within the same space such as background and foreground. The first impression upon looking at these framed … Continue reading
bosch: love as an involuntary movement
How mad can mad be? Is deep pessimism a form of madness? Very few paintings in the history of art have so puzzled and mystified, even perplexed viewers the way Hieoronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights has. Six hundred years … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Bass, Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, E.H. Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Hieronymous Bosch, Laurinda Dixon, Ram Dass, Sigmund Freud, Simone Weil, Umberto Eco, Wilhelm Fraenger, XTC, XTC Andy Partridge
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A Paradise not what its made out to be
Very few paintings in the history of art have so puzzled viewers as Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Only now perhaps, in our present new age of folly, can its meaning be made clear. Today we take a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain de la Roche, Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Dante Divine Comedy, Dante Inferno, Dirk Bax, Henry Miller, Henry Miller Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, Hieronymous Bosch, Johan Huizinga, Laurinda Dixon, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sigmund Freud, Stanley Meisler, Tom Schiller
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