The Disturbing Paintings of Hieronymus Bosch REACTION

What's up everybody welcome back to another highly combustible reaction we're jumping into something the disturbing paintings of Hieronymus boss Let's jump in and let's check it out together If you enjoy it, you don't want to show hochi laga all the love in the world. I'm subbing up Press that subscribe button press that like button Apparently it's going to be a bunch of grotesque and nonsensical creatures. Let's jump in Let's check it out together. Most of these most old school painters when you hit button. It's like, okay Yeah, they're painting something beautiful that you want to see in the music there's always a darker side to people's minds Let's jump into it. Let's see what it's all about. Let's go on a journey There is no other artist quite like hieronymus bosch Whilst da vinci was finishing the mona lisa and michelangelo was decorating the sistine chapel This dutch painter was conjuring up nightmarish hellscapes full of grotesque and nonsensical creatures But why did this artist create such disturbing paintings? Are they the product of a lively imagination or are they the result of a troubled mind afflicted by intense and frightening hallucinations? let's Did they have drugs like that back to the end mushrooms of peyote or definitely some of these look like an acid trip of a troubled mind afflicted by intense and frightening hallucinations Let's investigate the paintings of hieronymus bosch and get a glimpse of the artist behind his strange and unsettling work You can't it's like a train wreck It creeps you out, but you can't stop looking at it. Look at this There's so many different things to look at. Well, this is gonna take forever. I'm gonna have to go research his stuff by myself I need to study it for 30 40 minutes for very little is known about the life of hieronymus bosch Even his portrait which you can see now was made 30 years after his death We do know that he was born sometime during the mid-1400s And probably spent most of his life in the dutch town of sutterenbosch He grew up in a time of deep religious anxiety in late medieval christianity ideas about sin death and the devil Were becoming more sophisticated and descriptions of hell like in dante's inferno were becoming more vivid There was a genuine fear that demonic forces lived amongst the population a fear that led to the first european witch hunts Something that would only increase in the coming centuries This was the spiritual environment that hieronymus bosch emerged from one where devotion and fear were intertwined It is clear to have affected him deeply as a preoccupation with sin and punishment pervade his work Let's start with his most well-known painting the garden of earthly delights. It's a triptych with three panels depicting where have we heard that before? the garden of earthly delights Maybe maybe I'm gonna have to go look three unusual scenes The first on the left here is based on the biblical story of adam and eve Set in the garden of eden we can see familiar animals like elephants and giraffes But just below them is a freakish bipedal dog creature over here A frog mouth bird eats a toad and emerging out of this pool are hideous multi-headed reptiles Even in paradise there is already a sense of discord anticipating the horrors that lie ahead The middle panel is a non-biblical scene featuring hundreds of naked people frolicking in a lush garden Strange organic structures dominate the background giving an otherworldly feel to it The level of detail is astonishing but highlights include people crawling into this giant egg a multi-legged dancing owl and This is the kind of pictures I want I need to have hung up in my house Just so people walking in they go what the wait what? There's so many different things that you would just cock your head at like what the **** is going on Finally a cute cat-like unicorn the inhabitants of this panel seem to be indulging in acts of lust and gluttony Yes, they do seven deadly sins The last panel is a disturbing picture of hell with all kinds of eccentric and horrific punishments At the bottom we have a pig dressed up in a nun's habit It's attempting to get someone to sign a pact with the devil This bird demon consumes its helpless victims and then defecates them into the cesspool below over here We have a demonic choir master leading a dirge crucifying a man on a giant lyre It also appears to be tattooing music onto someone's backside some have actually put this to music and it sounds a bit like this Dominating the center it could sound eerie as hell We have the so-called tree man named after his stumpy legs Some believe that this face is a self-portrait of the artist There are so many interpretations to this piece at large and all the little scenes have their own theological messages You could spend hours deciphering even just one of them But I could spend hours just looking at the different things and be like, what is that? What is this over here? It's an idea that most people do agree upon. It's a warning against lust and the pursuit of physical pleasure The fear of sin death and punishment are the subjects of many of bosh's paintings This includes the last judgment another triptych where he illustrates the apocalyptic scenes from the book of revelation There are lots of non-biblical elements to this one like small gnomes and a giant human bird hybrid But believe it or not It's actually not too far off the source material as we've seen from another video of mine The original biblical texts include giant human headed locusts with scorpion stingers. I guess bosh is along the right lines painting after painting bosh conjures up horrific scenes each more nonsensical than the last A trademark of his artwork are the freakish creatures which can be found in many of his surviving sketches One of which includes the tree man seen from earlier But where on earth did Hieronymus Bosch get his inspiration from? Yeah, there are many theories but a popular one claims that he was suffering from intense and frightening hallucinations An idea which we can explore through this next piece Many of bosh's paintings focus on saint antony He was a hermit monk that lived in the egyptian desert during the fourth century according to christian legend He was often tormented by demons this painting the temptation of saint antony is characteristically bosh It depicts the trials this saint is rumored to have endured featuring a plethora of monsters Including this floppy-eared ice skating chicken demon my personal favorite an ice skating chicken demon with a funnel on his head Bosch made two other paintings about him. He likes funnels Look, there's another funnel right here in this picture dancing around with a knife and a shield Anthony more than any other saint this detail could be of significance You see there is a disease known as saint antony's fire You can contract it by eating a poisonous black fungus called ergots that grow on rye crops Symptoms include sores convulsions and a fierce burning sensation in limbs and extremities But another unusual effect of eating ergots are the frightening and overpowering hallucinations that can last for hours at a time They are believed to be behind the many dancing plagues recorded throughout the middle ages Whole towns would unexplainably dance all day and night with sun dropping dead from exhaustion In the mid-20th century, it was discovered that when ergots are baked in an oven They transform into a form of lysergic acid dithalamide also known as lsd Some believe that Bosch actually suffered from Saint Anthony's fire and may have based his paintings on his own frightening hallucinations Creating so many paintings to Saint Anthony may have been a form of devotional prayer Done so in the hopes that the saint would rid him of his debilitating illness It's an interesting theory, but one that's also very difficult to prove as mentioned already We know practically nothing about Bosch's life. So it's unknown whether he actually suffered from this disease The same goes for the arguments that suggest Bosch was simply insane There just isn't any evidence to either prove or disprove it I think there's another explanation one with a bit more evidence to back it up Hieronymus Bosch was not the only artist painting demons Even Michelangelo did a painting of Saint Anthony where he's being lifted up into the air by grotesque monstrosities Both artists come from much longer tradition the weird world of medieval christian art Delving into illustrated bibles and early animal encyclopedias reveals a whole collection of strange and frightening imagery Medieval Dr. Seuss characters some of them. This is insane I wonder now now I really wish I had done some more art history Let me dive into the darker side of art horrific descriptions of hell Grotesque monsters and demons galore all of which predate Bosch and his renaissance contemporaries In the margins of many illuminated manuscripts, you can find all sorts of bizarre monsters Some of them share a passing resemblance to Bosch's work It's possible likely even that he reproduced these creatures in his own work This is certainly the case with that giraffe as seen earlier art historians believe that he based it on an illustration Found in an early travel log comparing the two and they share a striking resemblance People were drawing hell and demons long before Hieronymus Bosch was but you could say that he perfected it A true renaissance artist he took the flat illustrations of old and transformed them by adding perspective and vivid color Bringing them to life through his ghoulish imagination Now, of course not all of Bosch's paintings are demonic hellscapes as with many painters of his time He made artworks about the life of Jesus or things that he saw around him But even in the more mundane topics, you're never too far away from spotting a beastie or two It is unfortunate that we know next to nothing about the life of Hieronymus Bosch Only a shadow of the man through his paintings. It was clear that he had a dark and vivid imagination And the matters of religion and morality clearly occupied his mind After his death in 1516 the next generation of dutch artists were clearly inspired by Bosch's work in the centuries to follow Artists began to see him as an early pioneer of surrealism being one of the first to draw directly from his imagination Hieronymus Bosch's dark apocalyptic visions continued to transfix all those who gazed on his paintings And offer bleak glimpses of what awaits us in the afterlife There is no way hey that went by way too fast Hieronymus Bosch is one of my favorite artists. So i'm thrilled to been able to make this video I really hope you enjoyed it too If you like this video and want to see more why not subscribe a like and a comment also go a really long way Anyway, I look forward to seeing you next time Goodbye Definitely definitely get over so hotel. I got all the love in the world. We're already subbed up We've already smashed the like button I'm going on a art journey. I'm telling you i'm gonna go research the hell out of Hieronymus Bosch tonight Just so I can look at the pictures because I want to dissect it piece by piece I feel like I need like one of those little Loops so I can go through little by little and find things. It's like a whole puzzle. I don't know That's a very mysterious man. I want to learn more about definitely You know You guys be happy as they say but i'll be to the moon and back peace