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Fabrizio Riccardi’s absurd and obscene ‘Paintings Of Pantagruel’


A painting by Fabrizio Riccardi from his series ‘Paintings of Pantagruel.’
 
In 1565 Francois Desprez, a publisher, illustrator, and bookseller based in Paris created a series of woodblock carvings The Humorous Dreams of Pantagruel. Historians have noted Desprez‘s strange carvings were commissioned by his associate and fellow printer Richard Breton. Now, it is very likely you have seen Salvador Dali‘s interpretative series Les songes drôlatiques de Pantagruel which the artist produced during the first part of the 1970s. Dali based his series of paintings on François Rabelais’ novel (translated to English), The Horrible and Terrifying Deeds and Words of the Very Renowned Pantagruel King of the Dipsodes, Son of the Great Giant Gargantua. While the great Dali’s take on Pantagruel was wild, it almost pales in comparison to Italian artist Fabrizio Riccardi‘s series Paintings of Pantagruel which Riccardi took on starting in 2008.

Riccardi’s paintings will no doubt bring you to immediately compare his style to visionary Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. Most of Riccardi’s images for Paintings of Pantagruel line up numerically with Desprez’s woodblocks from nearly 450 years prior. Riccardi was born in Rome and began his formal artistic training early after relocating to Turin with his family in 1952. There he attended Liceo Artistico dell’Accademia Albertina (or Albertina Academy of Fine Arts) and later the Faculty of Architecture in Rome, though he would leave the institution at the age of 24 in 1966 to marry and start a family. During this time period Riccardi would travel to Belgium, Switzerland, and the U.S. to showcase his work which was quickly embraced by fans and critics alike. I’ve posted an assortment of images from Riccardi’s Paintings of Pantagruel which is quite massive and can be seen in its entirety here. Most of what follows is NSFW.
 

 

 

 
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01.29.2018
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‘The Midnight Parasites’: Yōji Kuri’s surreal Hieronymus Bosch inspired animation from 1972
12.15.2017
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Yōji Kuri is the big daddy of Japanese animation. Now in his late eighties—he hits the big nine-“o” next year—Kuri was one of Japan’s key pioneering animators/artists/directors who produced around forty short animated films during the 1960s and early seventies—all of which brought independent Japanese animations to global attention. He was for a time namechecked as “the only Japanese animator whose work is known in the West,” which, although a nice piece of hyperbole, gives some idea of his importance at the expense of ignoring quite a few of his contemporaries.

Anyhow.

Kuri’s animations tend to be strange, surreal, experimental, and darkly compelling, yet often accomplished in what you might call a naive style. Take for example his Hieronymus Bosch-inspired animation The Midnight Parasites from 1972. Here Kuri imagines what would life might be like if we all lived in Bosch’s painting “Garden of Earthly Delights.” It’s a basically shit and death or rather a cycle of life where blue figures live and die; eat shit and shit gold; are skewered, and devoured; are regurgitated and reborn to carry on the cycle once again. It’s dark, dirty, oddly beautiful, with a groovy soundtrack—the kinda short flick that might pop up as a support to the late night psychedelic double-bill at the local fleapit.
 

 
Via Monster Brains.
 

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
A little ass music: Hieronymus Bosch’s 500-year-old butt song from hell
Collectable Hieronymus Bosch figurines
Incredible photographic recreations of Hieronymus Bosch paintings
Hieronymus Bosch’s ‘Garden Of Earthly Delights’ featured on Dr. Martens bags and shoes
Take this mind-blowing virtual tour of Hieronymus Bosch’s ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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12.15.2017
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Collectable Hieronymus Bosch figurines
01.12.2017
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‘Tree Man’ By Hieronymus Bosch From ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’

I’m not a big knickknack person. I like to keep my home sparse in the “tiny objects” departament. But I must admit I really do dig these Hieronymus Bosch figurines. They’re kinda cool-looking in their own obviously weird way. I especially like the ones from Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights.

They’re also not too expensive. The figurines start at around $45, depending on quality, size and detail. I’ve posted a range of different figurines and where to purchase below each image if you’re interested.

‘Devil On Night Chair ‘by Hieronymus Bosch from ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’
 

‘Blue Flutist’ by Hieronymus Bosch
 

‘Bird With Letter’ from ‘Temptation of St Anthony’ by Hieronymus Bosch
 
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Posted by Tara McGinley
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01.12.2017
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Take this mind-blowing virtual tour of Hieronymus Bosch’s ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’
02.09.2016
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There’s a stunning website dedicated to Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights,” one of the great (and enduringly popular) treasures of “Early Netherlandish” art. If you should check it out, you’ll be treated to a high-res image of the painting, Dolby-esque sound effects like snarling animals and lapping water, and an erudite series of audio clips explaining certain aspects of the painting, which you can take in sequence (as a tour) or investigate after your own fashion.

The real thing is at the Prado in Madrid.
 

The full painting, with little notes everywhere
 
The different areas of the massive triptych have titles like “The Mountain Landscape,” “The Circuit,” “City on Fire,” and “Tree Man.”

Here are the three favorite things I learned while screwing around with the website:

1. People of that time didn’t necessarily know what an elephant looked like.
2. The Dutch word for “birds” is basically the same as the Dutch word for “fucking.”
3. The bagpipe is a symbol of “sloth and idleness.”

Who knew? Scotland explained.

After the jump, a kind of trailer for the “transmedia triptych” of which the website is a part…

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Posted by Martin Schneider
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02.09.2016
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Hieronymus Bosch’s ‘Garden Of Earthly Delights’ featured on Dr. Martens bags and shoes
05.02.2014
11:52 am
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I swear to gawd I’m not trying to sell you stuff today—note The Shining swag post—but I couldn’t help myself with this wonderful ode to Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Dr. Martens.

I don’t really care for Dr. Martens footwear (just a personal aesthetic thing), but I dig the Hieronymus Bosch-inspired leather satchels fer sure! It’s all in the details…


 

 
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Posted by Tara McGinley
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05.02.2014
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Own your own Hieronymus Bosch figurine!
10.30.2013
11:01 am
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“Tree Man,” £44.99 ($72)
 
The good people at Lenin Imports have hit on a marvelous idea that will spruce up any office cubicle, foyer, dormitory room, or prison cell. For a nominal sum you can adorn your drab living space with a figurine painstakingly reproduced from the masterpieces of Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch, including such imaginative hellscapes as The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Last Judgment, and The Temptation of St. Anthony.

Most of the statuettes are about four inches tall, and most are priced at £44.99 ($72), but they vary a little bit according to size and complexity; one especially large one is priced at £144.99 ($235). If you’re looking for a bargain, note that “Ears with Knife” from The Garden of Earthly Delights is a steal at a paltry £29.99 ($50).

Prices “exclude postage and packaging.”

I’ve selected some of the more awe-inspiring figurines for you to peruse, but there are plenty more at the Lenin Imports website.
 
Blue Flutist
“Blue Flutist,” £44.99 ($72)
 
Ears with Knife
“Ears with Knife,” £29.99 ($50)
 
Devil on Night Chair
“Devil on Night Chair,” £44.99 ($72)
 
Bird with Castle Body
“Bird with Castle Body,” £44.99 ($72)
 
Thank you Michael Vanderbilt!

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Low-rent Rembrandt Thomas Kinkade R.I.P.

Posted by Martin Schneider
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10.30.2013
11:01 am
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