Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Delights
Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Delights
Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Delights
Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Delights
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Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Delights

Jean Eustache France, 1981

French television series Les enthousiastes asked art afficionados to offer their thoughts and interpretations about paintings that they themselves selected. For Eustache’s episode, Jean-Noël Picq (of Une sale histoire) chose the third panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights, an apocalyptic nightmare-scape that predicted the darkest reaches of surrealism by almost 400 years. Looking beyond its obvious grotesqueries, Picq points out several notable qualities of Bosch’s masterwork, including its near-absence of perspective, its conflation of ontological categories (human and animal, living and dead, time and space), and its objective depiction of sadomasochistic pleasure.

Details

  • 34 min
  • Color
  • 1.37:1

Formats

  • DCP

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