Rhubarbia (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
...an Hieronymus Bosch Tree Man Figurine (deluxe model, please). Over the weekend I was toying with this idea to make a Bosch figurine in polymer clay, specifically the blue flautist. But someone had got there long before me. Typical! :-) Talaria Enterprises' Hieronymus Bosch range
THE LION AND THE CARDINAL (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Walter Bosing: That man persists in his folly even at the moment of death, when the eternities of Heaven and Hell hang in the balance, is the subject of the Death of the Miser . The dying man lies in a high, narrow bedchamber, into which Death has already entered at the left. His guardian angel supports him and attempts to draw his attention to the crucifix in the window above, but he is still distracted...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
The El Topo and Holy Mountain director thrilled the 1970s counter-culture. Now his crazed visions are turning on everyone from Santigold to Kasabian Eyebrows, hopes and ceremonially lit bongs were all raised earlier this year with the news that Alejandro Jodorowsky was finally making another movie. The high priest of head-trip cinema, Jodorowsky blew the collective mind of the counter-culture with...
The Green Apple Core (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Illusion, Enchantment and Wonder The world’s greatest magicians from the Middle Ages through the 1950s Magic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics and sorcerers, magicians have always been conduits to a parallel universe of limitless possibility —whether invoking spirits, reading minds, or inverting the laws of...
Neamhspleach (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.” -James Arthur Baldwin Recently, a friend of mine put together a list of the artwork that has inspired him and that he loves. I was impressed with his list. We had a lot in common (so obviously his list would be impressive.) I put together my list. This list is limited to paintings (for the time being.)...
cowsarejustfood (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
the story goes that hieronymus bosch was a member of the adamites sect, heretical, obsessed with the fleshier temptations, but one where cock and cunt were free from sin. they sought a world of guiltless sex, of euphoric screwing, of blissful fucking, of carefree boning. you get the slightly soiled picture, non? so his garden [...]
freecounterpoint (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
A vision straight out of Hieronymus Bosch.
The Westcountry Buddha (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
I had a delightful afternoon yesterday at Upton House. There's some really nice photos here. I wanted to look at portraiture to see if I can glean any tips. I have a habit of standing in front of paintings and staring really intensely; glasses perched on my nose's end, seeing if I can work out how it's done and looking for tell tale signs of brushwork. I worry that someone will tap me on the shoulder...
What About Clients? (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Looking into the void. John of Patmos writes the Book of Revelation in this Hieronymus Bosch painting (1505). The lapsed Anglicans and Belfast Protestants who write WAC? are not conventionally religious--but we think the Bible is interesting. We think...
英文人行道 et cetera, et cetera (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Illusion, Enchantment and Wonder This book celebrates more than 500 years of the dazzling visual culture of the world’s greatest magicians . Featuring more than 1,000 rarely seen vintage posters, photographs, handbills, and engravings as well as paintings by Hieronymus Bosch and Caravaggio among others, this 650-page volume traces the history of magic as a performing art from the 1400s to the...
Bangkok Mafia (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
A striking thing about Bosch’s paintings is the great number of toads. Almost all of his paintings have at least one live toad (usually more). In a few paintings that do not show a toad, there are still toad images (e.g., on the shields of soldiers in Ecce Homo and the Crucifiction). Other painters of [...]
Siris (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
One of Hieronymus Bosch's most famous (and also least surreal) paintings is his tabletop painting, The Seven Deadly Sins and Four Last Things . The wheel at the center of the painting shows, as you might expect representations of the seven deadly sins: luxuria (extravagance), gula (gluttony), avaricia (greed), accidia (sloth), ira (wrath), invidia (envy), and superbia (pride). Much of the symbolism...
Uba Kontrovasie (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
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SmellyBlog (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Trick or Sniff! Join us for a spooky tea party on Halloween, October 31st. Enjoy some deadly treats handcrafted by Ayala, such as the infamously addictive Blood Truffles (with chilli and rose) chocolate truffles, lavender-crusted pumpkin pie, licorice cupcakes, tarragon tea sandwiches, our exquisite perfumed teas - and last but not least: Ayala Moriel's perfume line guests are invited to sniff and...
Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
By David W. Dunlap and James Estrin Any effort to describe the photography of Lu Guang by reference to the work of other artists would almost certainly invoke the name of W. Eugene Smith. (It is, for instance, just about impossible to look at Slide 4 without thinking of “ Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath .”) So it seems especially fitting that Mr. Lu, a Chinese freelancer, is the recipient of...
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