Posted on 02/11/2016 8:02:17 AM PST by BenLurkin
Open the app on your iPhone or Android, and you'll find yourself flying into the Garden of Eden on a giant fish. A unicorn, a chest-puffing bird, and a white giraffe are your first companions before you come across the divinely pink central fountain, thought to be evidence of Bosch's fascination with Tantric Buddist and Hindu philosophy. The fish takes you from location to location, so you can sit back and soak it all up. In VR, you can't help but focus on every little detail, which is one of the strengths of analyzing such a dense painting through this perspective.
The group behind the app, Burrell Durrant Hifle, have won BAFTA and Royal Television Society Awards and been nominated for Grammys and Emmys. They've produced several stunning nature documentaries for the BBC, and tackled VR in their War on Words project. Already this year scholars identified a previously unknown Bosch painting, an albino giraffe went viral much like the one painted in Bosch's Garden of Eden, and a massive exhibit will showcase nearly all of Bosch's paintings in his hometown museum Het Noordbrabants Museum. Bosch's virtual reality debut is in good historical company.
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I know that painting, I admire it for what it’s surreal style is meant to evoke, but I do not wish to enter such a literal world as that. Now give me a few paintings by Maxfield Parrish, with mountains, impossibly tall trees and friendly though winged people, I may be interested. Maybe.
Bird creatures craping out people isn’t necessary my idea of a fun VR experience, but it sounds fascinating to be inside a painting like that.
Holding out for a reboot of “Leisure Suit Larry.”
My husband and I see enough “weird” in our everyday real life just passing by us on the street so they can keep that mess.
It's amazing that Bosch developed that style centuries before 20th century surrealists like Dali, Ernst, etc. I love his work, but I really don't see the point of this ap.
The dude bent over with a bouquet of flowers blooming from his, er, “exit” is most disturbing... (yeah, among several dozen other things)
This may be one of those times when the ‘style’ was an incidental side effect of severe and chronic mental illness.
Bosch struggled with what may have been schizophrenia for years. After finishing this piece “Earthly Delights”, his family had him committed to an asylum. Salvador Dali was more a fetishist with OCD tendancies, same as Mozart. Both Dali and Mozart showed strong fascination with coprophilia.
Do you have a reference on Bosch being put away in a mental institution at any point in his life? It’s the first I’ve heard of it.
Throw this into a VR environment and the detail just pops out at you.
Interesting, but not my cup of tea.
I’m looking for that reference now. My Art History teacher told the class this years ago in Art College. She may have been just repeating what her teacher had told her.
We were discussing the parallels between Bosch, Van Gogh and late stage(Alzheimer afflicted) William De Kooning.
Hieronymus ‘Harry’ Bosch, noted detective in Michael Connelly’s series of novels.
One of my favorite authors.
http://www.michaelconnelly.com/
While Bosch’s vision is grounded in medieval imagery, his imaginative interpretation of it makes him the first surrealist artist in Europe.
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