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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
Phantasmagoria: be here now
Very few paintings in the history of art have so puzzled viewers as Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Even in the basking glory of post modernist permissiveness, its meaning is neither clear nor compelling, only murky. In centuries … Continue reading
free slaves on the ship of fools
Or stories about people sailing around their soul. Was Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” as puzzling as it claims to be. Perhaps only now, in our era of instant gratification, impatience for pleasure and fascination for a world in … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Antonin Artaud, Erasmus, Francisco Goya, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hieronymous Bosch, martha Clarke Garden of Earthly Delights, Michel Foucault, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Stanley Meisler
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variations of hell: a ramshackle affair
Whenever Hieronymus Bosch deals with hell and the devils, he repeats this master idea with many variations: the idea that they are illogical, disorderly, incomprehensible, and mad. When we hear that Saint Anthony was tempted in the desert, we expect … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Dante Alighieri, Dante Inferno, Diego Rivera, Dirk Bax, Henry Miller, Henry Miller Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, Johan Huizinga, Larry Solomom, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud, Stanley Meisler
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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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garden of earthly delights: paradise lost and better forgotten
Very few paintings in the history of art have puzzled viewers as “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. Perhaps both the godless and the god fearing, the hedonist, the Apollonian and the Dionysian, and those addicted to instant gratification can draw … Continue reading
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Tagged Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Dirk Bax, Henry Miller, Hieronymous Bosch, John Milton, martha Clarke Garden of Earthly Delights, Milton Paradise Lost, Stanley Meisler, Wilhelm Fraenger, XTC Andy Partridge, XTC Colin Moulding
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