Week 12:Sam, Seung-Hwan Kim, the garden of earthly delights

One of the most famous paintings of Bosch, the Garden of Earthly Delights is not only very intersting but also difficult to interpret. His triptych consists of three panels, creation, fall, and punishment. These three panels are closely related each other. On the left panel, with a very bright color, Bosch depicted paradise at the time of Genesis. And he also depicted the creation of human being and animals is described on the first panel. An old man on the panel who probably corresponts to God is holding Eve's hand. There is no sin but there is a close and positive relationship between God and human. Moreover, in relation with animals, human takes higher position than animals within the relation with God. However, as moving the attention to the right, mankind falls into the sin and seeks for "earthly delights," sex, which leads their position to under animals. On the centen panel, humans commit sin. Bosch depicted people who ride horses, unprotected sex, are making love with animal, and hold a large strawberry. All these behaviors represent sin, "earthly delights." The position of mankind, again, lowered to the same position as animals. The last but not least panel descrebes the hell as a punishment of sin that humans commit. Overall, the color of the panel is dark and the red. Views hardly find the brightness, which they easily found on the first two panels. The entire atmosphere is very gloomy and pessimistic. On the center of the penel, a monster with human figure has a half- cut body and allows us to see inside. The inside of the body looks like a pub where people drink and a place of "earthly delights." As a punishment of their sin, people are suffering from very disgusting environment. Finally, animals took over humans' position as we see the scene that rats rape women and a pig is smiling while taking a nun's veil.