M-Johnston

thank you, and happy new year.. the brueglesque/boschian triptych is part of a larger series of paintings I hope to finish someday.. I wish I could explain it in a few simple sentances, maybe I'll actually put something here in my journal about it sometime... part of the original idea was that if the work of bosch was taken out of religious contexts then the best way to explain his imagery would be halucination, so I wanted to paint something bosch like that was like a fairytale-like moralistic story about drug use... but the thing with bosch (as with many other artists) is that though his work seems very unique, it drew a lot from culture and traditions from his time.. which fit with my own belief that no art is truly original, that we can only produce art which is based (sometimes very abstractly) on what we see and percieve. as Bosch was a product of his time, my idea was in part a product of my perception of Bosch... as has been the work of many other artists, which is where bruegel comes in. Bruegel is often thought of the best of Bosch's imitators (though he worked in a very different style quite a lot as well) and has a much larger catalog of work that Bosch, so I decided to use bruegel as a main source of imagery for much of the paintings (pretty much the whole left panel is a reconfigured version of one of his "peasant dance" paintings with a few details added and colors changed, the center panel has stuff from a bunch of bruegels paintings including "wedding feast", "netherlandish proverbs", "beggers and cripples" and a few more). the right panel has a mix of stuff sourced from Bruegel and Bosch, but part of the idea behind it (muppet characters portraying the seven sins - something which may need to be explained more for it to seem to fit with the rest) made it hard to stick as close to bruegel as I'd have liked. the basic sort of body position of bert and ernie was taken from a bosch painting depicting the seven sins, but thats really about it aside from the boar which in medieval/renaissance art was associated with the sin of anger/wrath/etc was taken from bosch. the figures at the bottom of that panel are part of the narative carried over from the other panels and the dog/wolf as well as the body position of the bird-person are from painting called "parable of the good shepherd" which is thought to be by someone who worked with Bruegel, and the bird-person's physique is addapted from a character in the bottom/center portion of one of Bosch's "last judgement" triptychs. if I recall correctly (it was about a year ago that I started that panel) the overall layout of that panel is supposed to have design parallels with the right wing of Bosch's "hay wain" triptych, and there's some Dr. Seuss in there as well, as I feel his work can be bosch-like in a way and I wanted to have things taken from what I saw in childrens media in the early 80's. this is a very hacked together description of what I was trying to do and where it came from.. but thanks for looking at my stuff

yep, east kingdom... it's kind of suprising in a way to find so many SCA people here, but also not too unexpected as well.