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To: lee martell
I know that painting, I admire it for what it’s surreal style is meant to evoke

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.

8 posted on 02/11/2016 8:49:41 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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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.


12 posted on 02/11/2016 9:14:38 AM PST by lee martell
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