I feel the animation doesn't really capture bosch. I grew up with his painting around our house, my dad was a big fan! When we lived in Europe for a few years we would go to all kinds places just to see one his paintings.
However, I feel the animation is trying to be "weird" like bosch rather than "symbolic" like bosch.
The linked article suggests that the models in the animation are supposed to represent 21st-century vices. That's all very well and good, but "The Garden of Earthly Delights" wasn't supposed to (and doesn't) represent 16th-century vices. Certain images from the "Hell" panel may be more historically situated, but the center panel is -- if it's about vices at all, which is not at all clear -- about more-or-less eternal human ones.
The video is pretty cool, imo. I'd definitely be interested in exploring it in VR (I noticed the article links to a trailer for an app that does something similar).
That said, it only really bears a vague resemblance to the original painting. If you remove all the sexual and religious elements, you end up with something very different.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 36.6 ms ] threadHowever, I feel the animation is trying to be "weird" like bosch rather than "symbolic" like bosch.
Edit: one of my favorite pieces of art derivative of "Garden" -- a reading of the music painted on one of the figures' asses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnrICy3Bc2U
That said, it only really bears a vague resemblance to the original painting. If you remove all the sexual and religious elements, you end up with something very different.
Would be nice to have characters from from those scans for animation.
Am I right to understand that currently there are only 4 works available to explore?
The JS viewer is amazing. From the description:
Can someone explain why infrared and reflectography scans would be interesting?https://youtu.be/mKdcQK2v3JQ