Art in Bruges

For various reasons I find myself thinking about this little clip from the 2016 film In Bruges, starring Brendan Gleason and Colin Farrell. It’s set in the Groeningemuseum in the city of Bruges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtgQEt3Eb4Q

You can read an interesting post about the art in the film here.

You will see that the only painting that Ray (Colin Farrell) likes is a triptych called The Last Judgment, a version of which coincidentally featured in my post on Monday. The one I posted was by Hieronymous Bosch and is in Vienna; the one in Bruges is of doubtful attribution. It may be by Bosch, but experts think it is more likely to be by members of his workshop.

P.S. If you like black comedies then In Bruges is definitely for you! I wouldn’t say it was really a Christmas movie though…

#Art #BrendanGleason #ColinFarrell #HieronymousBosch #InBruges #TheLastJudgment

The Last Judgment

Walking home through Maynooth this evening, the streets filled with partying students, I was reminded of this:

It’s the central part of the triptych Das letzte Gericht (The Last Judgment) by  Hieronymus Bosch. The medium is oil on oak panel and it measures 164 x 127 cm. The original work is in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

The figures at the top, looking down on the chaos, are clearly identifiable as members of academic staff, while those below are students. I’m sure that if Christmas jumpers had been invented in 1486, when the work is thought to have been completed, Bosch would have painted a few in…

#DasLetzteGericht #HieronymousBosch #Maynooth #MaynoothUniversity #TheLastJudgment

Natural Feelings by Airto 1970

"This album, originally released in 1970 on the thinly-distributed Skye label, marks Airto's debut as a bandleader and captures the percussionist right at the time he recorded Bitches Brew with Miles Davis, and right before he joined Weather Report for their first album. Indeed, the line-up on this album reflects the fact that Airto had one foot in the NYC jazz scene and one foot in his native Brazil, as bassist Ron Carter joins Airto's countrymen Sivuca and Hermeto Pascoal, along with Airto's wife Flora Purim. The music is a fascinating blend of jazz-funk and Brazilian tropes, housed inside the original wild, Hieronymus Bosch album art!" Soul Jazz Records

#airto #sivuca #roncarter #BrazilianMusic #HermetoPascoal #florapurim #HieronymousBosch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVeK-rHEJXE

Nobody should be surprised that the Germans have a special name for the Where's Wally genre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimmelbilderbuch

#Germany #WheresWally #HieronymousBosch

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits can be seen in the National Gallery of Portugal, in Lisbon. It's a detail from a canvas by Hieronymous Bosch; the Temptations of St Anthony.

#painting #StAnthony #HieronymousBosch #Lisbon #NationalGallery #portugal #hellish #fantastical

a poem by Paul Coltman

#PaulColtman #poetry #hiroshima #HieronymousBosch #painter #fantastical #hellish

Celebrating Extraterrestial Culture Day?

Why not join us in the lounge as we look at William Blake and his visions - what did he see? Angels? Monsters? Aliens?

3 Episodes, all on the Inwells & Curtains channel on Youtube

Full playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-Grln8cOKDJCO0CnIwtqZ2LABY7c3LHe
#alien #extraterrestialcultureday #williamblake #youtube #podcast #aliens #ufo #carljung #hieronymousbosch

Documentation of the previous incursion in the popular art of the time, 1 of 3

#DarkArts #DigitalArt #AIAssistedArt #AIArt #LittleApocalypses #ApologiesTo #HieronymousBosch #WomboDream #StableDiffusion #WeirdArt #PsychologicalLandscape #LittleAnxieties #ImSureItMustMeanSomething