If there is one of the classics that has always troubled with his paintings, this has always been El Bosco. I can say that there is no such painter who has represented the most filthy of the human in such a special way. Goya and his black age is close to him in those representations that are so dark and that touch the depths of thought and our human nature.
The Garden of Earthly Delights is the most famous work of this painter that this year the fifth centenary of his death is celebrated. Hieronymus Bosch or, in Spain, known by the nickname of El Bosco, had great popularity among the nobility who collected works of art and many were amused by those grotesque and characteristic human landscapes.
As early as the XNUMXth century it was named as the inventor of comic monsters and in the 500th century he came to be known by the name of Der Lustige (the humorist). A painter who is celebrating the XNUMXth anniversary of his death and who is known rather little despite the large number of theories that both his life and his work have been the target.
The hidden meaning of his works has been sought, just as psychologists, theologians and more have tried to shed light on this enigmatic painter. For Philip II, Bosco I managed to paint men as they areFor Antonin Artaud, he was the one who best knew how to show the darkest part of the human being, while in the popular culture of these decades and previous ones, he has used his images to illustrate album covers of rock greats such as Deep Purple.
A painter who is in the transition from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance, a time of great ideological and religious tensions. His paintings reflect part of those conflicts in which we find the internal corruption of the clergy, heretical sects and new currents of Neoplatonic thought. We must also remember that he was a medieval painter who puts the best of his art at the service of the client's ideas; the painter of that time was guided by the instructions of the contractor.
In the Prado Museum, since yesterday, started one of the three exhibitions dedicated to the Dutch of the commemorative events of the V centenary. The exhibition 'El Bosco' will be divided into five sections focused on his paintings to have a sixth dedicated to his drawings. It will run until September 11, so you have time to stop by to see in situ the brush and those works of this great classical painter.