Hieronymus Bosch
The art of Hieronymus Bosch
From some point of view, Hieronymus Bosch (1450?-1516) can be
considered as the firts western painter to combine erotism and
surrealism in his pictures, which often describe the delights of
sex in a phantasmagorical manner. His extraordinary imagination
makes him paint fantastic animals and impossible scenes, which we
also find in some modern paintings of the surrealists. Though, as a
matter of fact, he has nothing in common with the surrealistic
theories of these contemporary painters. Bosch painted a world of
fantasy with a strong erotic and even sado-masochist character.
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The surrealistic character of his paintings
This artist has painted an incredible amount of things which do
not exist in the reality, but are a product of his imagination,
assembling real details in an unorthodox and totally non-realistic
way.
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The erotic character of his paintings
Several opuses of Bosch contain a host of erotic and
sado-masochist details, particularly “The Temptation of St
Antony”, “The Hay Wain”, “, The Garden of
Earthly Delights”, “The Last Judgement”, etc.
In the center panel of “The Last Judgment”, there is a
naked figure, probably a woman, pissing though a window into a
barrel through an funnel, and finally a naked fat man is drinking
the liquid which comes out of the barrel. Transposed in the style
of the epoch, a naked man drinking the piss of a naked female is
one of the favorite subjects of modern pornography! On the right
panel of the same opus, one can see a naked man, pierced right
through by a sword, with the beak of a bird, like a modern dildo,
picked in his anus.
In “The Garden of Earthly Delights”, there is another
naked man with, this time, a bunch of flowers stuck in his anus! In
the same painting, one can see the inferior half of a naked man in
erection, hiding his testicles with both hands.
On the right panel of one of his greatest chef d’oeuvres,
“The Temptation of St Antony” (Museu Nacional de Arte
Antigua, Lisbon, Portugal), one can see a hand on the sex of a
naked woman, but the owner of this hand stands hided behind a
tree!
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Bosch and my logo
The center of interest of the largest painting of Hieronymus
Bosch, “The Garden of Earthly Delights” (The Prado,
Madrid, Spain), is the hand of a naked man on the sex of a naked
woman. And indeed this peculiar detail stands precisely in the
middle of the left-right symmetry of the center panel of the
triptych, and at the crossing of this line of symmetry with the
horizontal line made by the surface of the water.
- I drew my inspiration from this particular detail for the left
part “A” of my logo, as shown in the illustration below,
because it symbolizes the erotic character of my work. (I’ve
exchanged the woman’s face for another more beautiful one,
taken from the same painting.)
- The right part “B” of my logo illustrates the
surrealistic character of my paintings by showing a totally
impossible animal coming from the right panel of the same
tryptych.
Click on this thumbnail for seeing the precise position of these
details in the painting.
And here you see my logo in its definitive colors:
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I consider myself as the spiritual heir of Hieronymus
Bosch, for what concerns the two main and most typical
characteristics of his oeuvre: on the same time erotic and
surrealistic. That’s the reason of my logo.
On the technical point of view,
I am the spiritual heir of the Old Flemish Masters,
particularly John Van Eyck.
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