Eur 201 Extra Credit Lecture
Extra credit lecture
Grotesque art
Early Renaissance – 20th century
Renaissance I. Early Renaissance a. Rabaleis: Freest in his treatment of carnival (very grotesque) b. Bosch, Hieronymus (c. 1450 – 1516) – Triptych (painted on three panels): Garden of Earthly Delights painting. i. Ideals of the body put forward normally, but Bosch embraces the strangeness 1. Closing the panels, a fourth painting appears, representing a scene after a flood, likely Noah’s. 2. Read left to right, telling a continuous story narrative. a. First panel – Likely Adam and Eve with God, a few animals, serene, Eden. b. Second panel – indulgent, wild, many people and animals, having fun c. Third panel – Dark scene, destruction, over-indulgence. d. Fourth panel – scene after a flood, likely Noah’s. ii. Born in the Netherlands, last name. Patronage of the Duke of Burgundy, known by prince of Spain – had quite a worldly reputation. Married an apothecary’s daughter. iii. Apothecary – pseudoscience, served as pharmacists but also got a bad rap as experimenters with alchemy. 3. Alchemy as a science – idea of changing metals into gold, matter into spirit iv. Grotesque 4. Etymology – grotto, Italian word, for ornamental art found in Roman bathhouses e. Any form of art that allows for interpenetration of overly rigid categories (i.e., human and animal, human and vegetable.) 5. Titus Bathhouse paintings telling narrative stories; type of art receptive to people around Europe 6. Medieval i. Hierarchy of being had been rigid. Discovering Titus bathhouse paintings opened thinking. v. Interpreting Bosch 7. Common ideas f. Thought to be the days of Noah (due to flood) – although, nothing really ties down to Noah’s time. In middle
Grotesque art
Early Renaissance – 20th century
Renaissance I. Early Renaissance a. Rabaleis: Freest in his treatment of carnival (very grotesque) b. Bosch, Hieronymus (c. 1450 – 1516) – Triptych (painted on three panels): Garden of Earthly Delights painting. i. Ideals of the body put forward normally, but Bosch embraces the strangeness 1. Closing the panels, a fourth painting appears, representing a scene after a flood, likely Noah’s. 2. Read left to right, telling a continuous story narrative. a. First panel – Likely Adam and Eve with God, a few animals, serene, Eden. b. Second panel – indulgent, wild, many people and animals, having fun c. Third panel – Dark scene, destruction, over-indulgence. d. Fourth panel – scene after a flood, likely Noah’s. ii. Born in the Netherlands, last name. Patronage of the Duke of Burgundy, known by prince of Spain – had quite a worldly reputation. Married an apothecary’s daughter. iii. Apothecary – pseudoscience, served as pharmacists but also got a bad rap as experimenters with alchemy. 3. Alchemy as a science – idea of changing metals into gold, matter into spirit iv. Grotesque 4. Etymology – grotto, Italian word, for ornamental art found in Roman bathhouses e. Any form of art that allows for interpenetration of overly rigid categories (i.e., human and animal, human and vegetable.) 5. Titus Bathhouse paintings telling narrative stories; type of art receptive to people around Europe 6. Medieval i. Hierarchy of being had been rigid. Discovering Titus bathhouse paintings opened thinking. v. Interpreting Bosch 7. Common ideas f. Thought to be the days of Noah (due to flood) – although, nothing really ties down to Noah’s time. In middle