The Noordbrabants Museum in Den Bosch will organize next year the block-buster exhibition ‘Hieronymus Bosch – Visions of a genius.’ With an expected 20 paintings (panels and triptychs) and 19 drawings it is envisioned to be the biggest exhibition of Hieronymus Bosch (ca. 1450 to 1516) ever.
I was thinking of going twice actually, once with my art history major girlfriend because then i'll be properly informed about the whats and the whys (going to museums with her is awesome and one of my favourite things in life) and once with a friend under the influence of some kind of funky psychedelic substance (i'm thinking maybe 2-CB or perhaps 4-FMP), in order to try and truly appreciate the works.
The idea that artwork is better experienced while under the influence of perception altering drugs is really unfathomable to me. It's quite counter-productive actually. It seems to me that it's actually not the artwork you'll be experiencing, but a psychedelically mutated version of that piece of art, making it virtually impossible for you to experience the artwork's purest essence. The experience itself might be a good or interesting one, but you'll mentally be no closer to the artwork itself than standing outside of the museum staring at one of it's blank walls.
Want to come along? We'll have a good discussion about it
Actually let's have it now, not very busy at work. Your statement sir is quite dramatic and quite possibly bereft of personal experience! Would you agree that perhaps one who is not into painted art or mind altering chemicals should perhaps not make such sweeping statements? Furthermore; can you honestly look at a Bosch painting and not be convinced the man was an avid mushroom eater? And if you think staring at a blank wall would be as much fun as staring at a Bosch you've clearly never taking proper drugs (which is no problem btw, our shit is good and we're all experienced users, you can totally hang with us on our psychedelic culture trip dude).
You're making it too big a thing anyway, when i say i want to reach a deeper understanding i'm mostly joking a bit; listening to good jazz when buzzed on whiskey is also a fine waste of time but it's never given me deeper understanding - it's just a good way to take in some jazz. This in my opinion would be a good way to take in Bosch. Also, i'm going twice, once sober as hell to get the whole story.
Eraser wrote:The idea that artwork is better experienced while under the influence of perception altering drugs is really unfathomable to me. It's quite counter-productive actually. It seems to me that it's actually not the artwork you'll be experiencing, but a psychedelically mutated version of that piece of art, making it virtually impossible for you to experience the artwork's purest essence. The experience itself might be a good or interesting one, but you'll mentally be no closer to the artwork itself than standing outside of the museum staring at one of it's blank walls.
Drugs can open wider the doors of perception, if I'm allowed to paraphrase Huxley here.
Try smoking a joint and listening to some really good music. You won't feel like you're missing anything, quite the opposite I'd bet.
I was thinking of going twice actually, once with my art history major girlfriend because then i'll be properly informed about the whats and the whys (going to museums with her is awesome and one of my favourite things in life) and once with a friend under the influence of some kind of funky psychedelic substance (i'm thinking maybe 2-CB or perhaps 4-FMP), in order to try and truly appreciate the works.
Sweet plan. This guy was tripping balls whether high on something or not. I'd love to hear your impressions after the visits.
stopped by the Art Gallery of Ontario yesterday and checked out some works by Bosch's contemporaries.
Lots of biblical themes but the other works were full of stern faced subjects.
Looking at Bosch's stuff now it's like he snatched up the people from other artists' paintings and dumped them unceremoniously into his personal tripped out hell.
HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:Lots of biblical themes but the other works were full of stern faced subjects.
Except when you look at contemporaries in Italy, where the renaissance had just begun and righteous dudes like Leonardo & Da Vinci also strayed from the norm with their art
