DOOPA RULES!

[kellychaos]

Originally Posted by Jeanette X

Wow Re, m suprised nobody started a thread like this before! You should have t-shirts of your art as well. I'd buy one.
Some of your work reminds me of Hieronymus Bosch...are you familiar with him?

Now that's some scary shiyat. I never want to go to hell after seeing some of his stuff ... not even to visit friends. That guy must have had one tortured soul. What's with the owls in his work? Is that some sort of symbology I'm not getting?

[Jeanette X]

Originally Posted by kellychaos

What's with the owls in his work? Is that some sort of symbology I'm not getting?

Actually, very little is known about Bosch. We barely have enough information on the guy to fill out a passport. Quite frustrating really.

I do recall reading somewhere that some things in his paintings may have been literal interpretations of Dutch proverbs and idioms. Kind of like showing that someone is a asshole (as in a jerk) by painting them as a big sphinchter with legs.

We do know that he did get married, and that he was inducted into some kind of guild of church artists, so he couldn't have been totally insane.

[Anonymous]

The owls are not what they seem

[FS]

Pretty much everything you look at in a Bosch painting has a hidden meaning or symbolizes something. Animals and objects often portray sins and seductions.

But is his first name Hieronymus, or Jeroen? I can imagine the former being a 'foreign' version of his name much like 'Christopher' Columbus, but I can also imagine the latter being a Dutch bastardization or shorter version of his real name.

[Jeanette X]

Hieronymus is a Latin form of the Greek name Hieronymos, which means "Sacred Name". The name Hieronymus was/is used in Germany and Holland. The name Jerome is the English version of the name.

I think I will start a name meanings thread.

[carey]

"so that my hetero life mate will relax:

the doopa disclaimer-- DOOPA IS MY FAVORITE ARTIST THAT I HAVE NOT HAD SEX WITH."

that makes it all better!