To inspire myself to draw today – I decided to look at the mysterious and at the same time amazing artworks of famous painter Hieronymus Bosch. By the way, Hieronymus Bosch was not the real name of the artist. It was just his pseudonym. What for his real name, it was – Jeroen Anthoniszoon van Aken.
Speaking about the majority of Bosch’s masterpieces, they are full of various symbols. So, there’s no doubt, that his works are very interesting to investigate. Even now, no one art critic in the world is able to say exactly, what is behind Bosch‘s works.To my mind, this artist is like a big symbol himself, like a puzzle I mean.
Just have a look at his paintings. Can you imagine what was happening in his head while he was creating his paintings?
Take, for instance, his masterpiece called “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. It’s a breathtaking triptych! Looking at this painting you are beginning to doubt that this masterpiece was created about five hundred years ago. It is far from traditional medieval paintings.
As you see, this painting consists of three parts. The central part represents the Garden of earthly delights itself. It’s a panorama of fantastic “garden of love” with lots of naked men and women, extraordinary animals and plants. Lovers indulge in vice in ponds… In spite of them, you notice birds of enormous proportions, butterflies, horses, etc. Moreover, strange fountains or castles are here as well.
Now let’s move to the two other parts of this triptych. On the left one – God is shown with Adam and Eve. The atmosphere on this part of the painting is peaceful, combined with lively central part. As for the left part of this masterpiece, here we can see Hell. Again, the atmosphere differs greatly from the left part. Don’t you find it exiting to look at this tryptych as a whole art work, and then at all it’s parts separetely?
Coming back to my pursuit of inspiration… eventually, I found it. Of course, my own drawings are very far from Bosch, but also contain lots of polysemantic symbols. Frankly speaking, I really enjoy to use symbols in my creations. You know, using symbols – is a good idea to say what you feel or think without saying it directly. Moreover, it gives you an opportunity to rouse people’s interest in your works, because looking at your drawings they start to think “what was it exactly about”.
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