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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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the wanderer: Haywain and a harvest of pessimism
Another of Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych’s, called The Hay-Wain is almost as complex as The Garden of Earthly Delights and carries a similar message of desperate pessimism; a message that delivers itself into the arms of darkness and madness. On the … 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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bosch: strawberry fields nor ever
A cursing of those fanatical, demented, crazed…tormentors and executioners….The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch has certainly puzzled viewers. It is one of the most mysterious and enigmatic paintings ever done. Only five hundred years later has its meaning … Continue reading
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Tagged Erasmus, Erich Fromm, Ernst Bloch, Hieronymous Bosch, Laurinda Dixon, martha Clarke Garden of Earthly Delights, Max Weber, Michel Foucault, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Brueghel, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin
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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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