19 October 2011

The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosh Part 5

The history of humanity begins with the creation of Adam and Eve, God comes down in His earthly bodily form as Christ the son and gives to Adam and Eve the gift of love.


The medieval mind thinks - the sin has arrived. But Bosh's Renaissance mind it is all about reinterpreting the old traditions, it sees the next step in the history of humanity, full of raising new life, sometimes natural, sometimes anti-natural, men riding beasts in an anti clock wise direction. It is our basic instincts, not enough ruled by God, too much ruled by the devil. 


The sad look of Christ at the sinfulness of man ...


... is counted by the cool and dispassionate look of the tree man ...


... which again is counted by the cruel look,  the black eye of the devil in hell. 


And hell is not the usual hell ... 


Bosh's paint does not portrait the conventional last judgement, it shows heaven and hell as places that your soul may not go to, it is about a state of  being. 
What are you ? You will have to look within ... 

Continues ...

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