Hieronymus bosch (Bosch1450-1516) Hieronymus Bosch was born in an artistic family. His grandfather and father are both famous local painters, and Bosch himself is also famous. He was valued by the local rulers before and after his death.
Bos's early art has a naive and implicit personality; In his mid-term creation, he gave full play to the expressive force and rich imagination of art: he was particularly good at using fantasy to distinguish himself from painters who emphasized the authenticity of images. He skillfully and humorously combined realism with romanticism, created an image full of fantasy and realism, praised people and things with absurd images, exposed and satirized ugly phenomena in life, and became his unique artistic language. The artistic image he created inherits the humorous elements of Dutch folk art, and at the same time absorbs the essence of Italian and German art. ..
Bos's later works are innovative and profound in composition and modeling, color and brushwork. Bos has always been regarded as an incredible painter in the history of art, and his pictures full of whimsy are as difficult to understand as mysteries. In fact, the artistic image he created is not fabricated out of thin air, but to express his strong anti-feudal thoughts. He absorbed interesting images from traditional Gothic sculptures, illustrations of animal stories in the Middle Ages, color manuscripts and ancient gems and coins in the Middle Ages, and also indirectly expressed his thoughts with astrology. His artistic creation and influence transcend time and space, and he is known as "the originator of modern painting".
The ship of fools
/kloc-In the 5th century, Dutch humanists picked up the pen to expose the corruption of the church, and created satirical literary works such as Ship of Fools and Stupid Praise, which sharply satirized, exposed and attacked the greed and lewdness of priests, the vanity and ignorance of theologians, the unearned gains of feudal rulers and their stupidity and stubbornness.
The "fool" in the painting symbolizes all kinds of evil deeds in society. They were in the same boat, and were driven to the so-called "fool's paradise" by a fool. A group of dissolute and heartless people on the ship only care about eating, drinking and singing, but they don't know that the ship driven by fools is about to die. Treadmill hieronymus Bos [2]. This is a warning to society. hieronymus Bos [3] mocked Christ.
Laugh at Christ
After Jesus was arrested in Gethsemane, he was brought before Pilate, the governor of Rome. At that time, the upper class nobles went to Pilate to accuse Jesus, saying that it was unforgivable for Jesus to preach in Judea and incite people against the Roman Empire.
Jesus was locked in the guild hall, and the guards of Jesus beat him, blindfolded him, and let him guess who was beating him, so as to satirize and insult the miracle worker. After being sentenced to death by Pilate, the soldiers whipped Jesus. In order to satirize him as the king of Judea, they made a crown of thorns and put it on his head to "congratulate" him on becoming king, and dragged him to the street for public display. Hay cart (partial) hieronymus Bos [4] This is a plot in the story of the crucifixion of Jesus, and the painter depicts the good and evil of human beings with funny and exaggerated characters.
triptych of haywain,the haywain triptych
In the center of the picture, the tall hay truck is surrounded by a group of absurd and weird artistic figures and animals. This is a moral painting that combines metaphor and authenticity.
Haystack was originally an old Dutch proverb, which means: "The world is a haystack, and everyone can do whatever he wants in the world." In the painting, a prodigal son is flirting on a nun's lap, a saint prays for the devil to play, a ghost drags a hay cart, and the Pope leads the crowd. Then, there were murders and fights everywhere. People and ghosts, good and ugly are mixed in this real world. It is an absurd stage, and all creatures show their prototypes. Interestingly, a scrawny Christ emerged from the blue sky and auspicious clouds. He spread out his hands and said that there was nothing he could do about this ugly world, which was sad and ridiculous.
The layout of the picture seems chaotic, but in fact, the priorities are clear, the characters are orderly, there are gatherings and scattered, and the density is alternating. There is nothing in sparse places, and people overlap in dense places. The main color of the picture is yellow, which creates a warm and horrible atmosphere, and the contrast with the large blue sky makes the picture bright and loud. The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Bos likes to use exaggerated artistic techniques, and the characters are symbolic. He often uses fables or religious stories and fantasies to allude to the reality of the world, and is regarded as a unique master of realism by later artists.
The Temptation of Saint Anthony is Bose's masterpiece. Saint Anthony is a devout Christian. After his parents died, he gave all his property to the poor and lived in seclusion in the cemetery to practice hard. At that time, he experienced various temptations from the devil and never wavered in his firm belief.
The painter painted all kinds of strange animals, characters and monsters to insinuate the hypocrisy of the Catholic church and priests. Saint Anthony knelt on the platform, holding a bowl of water, while everyone around him was immersed in dissolute happiness. In the lower right corner of the podium, the hypocrite with a fox head, a mouse face and a pair of glasses on his long nose is reading the Bible seriously. The priest on the roof is drinking and having fun with a woman, and there is a naked woman standing next to him. Saint Anthony advocates abstinence, but people around him are desperately pursuing various desires. All these show the hypocrisy, shame and absurdity of the church.
The worship of the three sages hieronymus Bos (part of heaven on earth) hieronymus Bos's painting is like a magic mirror, which makes the viewer see the essence of this society.
Renjian Happy Garden
This painting was completed in the most mature period of his art. With rich imagination, the painter painted three paintings: heaven, Eve's creation and the initial temptation.
This "Happy Garden on Earth", also called "Eve's Creation", satirizes all kinds of strange faces of men and women in the world with allegorical modeling. The characters in the painting are complex and orderly, but they can't tell the plot of the characters in the painting. The whole painting is full of humanity, lust and erratic dreams of human enjoyment. In the painter's view, human beings are in all kinds of temptations.
The picture is divided into three layers: the magical paradise above, the unrestrained pursuit in the middle, and the paradise for all beings of Eve's descendants below. This is a fantasy world, which contains a sinful society where people and animals live, in order to express the exposure and criticism of social reality.