The Garden of.....

[Stormy]

The Garden of Earthly Delights - Bosch

I just came across this painting wile reference hunting and what else can I say other then its ****ING MENTAL!

This is a super high-res version totally to around 100mb and its well worth waiting 5mins or so for it to get the hole image and checking it out. So much damn crazy stuff going on! I've spotted crazy cute cats with horns, pigs crapping out what look like blue balloons... all sorts of crazy stuff.

check it out!

Edit.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights

This link may be better ^^ Click on the pic on the right for uber res

 

[Remus]

Bosch confronts his viewer with, in the words of the art historian Walter Gibson, "a world of dreams and nightmares in which forms seem to flicker and change before our eyes."

Sounds a lot like surrealism to me. Only almost 500 years earlier.

 

[dfc05]

Yeah, reminds me a little of Salvador Dali.
My internet connection at home is too slow to bother trying the download, but the Wikipedia article was really interesting.

 

[Viperidae]

Art history protip:

Spoiler

Medieval and renaissance artists were ****ing with time and causality long before modernists were.

like holy shit what the **** is going on there's three of her and why is she breaking the fourth wall zomg

 

[KiplingsCat]

It's like medieval Where's Wally/Waldo. Special bonus points if you can find a woman with a cherry balanced on her head, a pig wearing a nun's habit, a guy with sheet music printed on his ass, a woman talking to a man with a blueberry for a head, people having sex inside a mussel shell, and Bosch's initial.

 

[<RJMC>]

hallucigenics stuff has been used since ancient times