Week 8 confirmation

1. What is my thesis?
Hieronymus Bosch is a holy painter rather than a surrealism painter.

2. What types of source am I using to defend my thesis? 
I am using the universal interpretations of Bosch's paintings. 

3. Are my arguments mostly based on evidence, logic or emotion?
My arguments have no hard evidence. In fact, I think that is one of the biggest problems with my confirmation. I have the common thoughts of art experts about Bosch's  paintings. Since I also know the unique points of  him, I am going to lead my essay with logic.

My Confirmation

 Hieronymus Bosch wanted to deliver the facts and beliefs of Christ rather than his own imagination largely called Surrealism
 First, His paintings shows who Hieronymus Bosch looked at the world and how he estimated and criticized the world as a Christian. We can confirm through one of his paintings :Garden of Earthly Delights. On the left side of this large triptych represents Eden Park, however, as move our eyes to the middle of the works, the painting describes human world that is full of capricious love which is getting corrupted. Finally, on the right side, he drew evils on the Bible. His work indicates us some moral lessons that as time goes by, human is becoming craven and chopping their own ice. Also people are living against the rules of God so that he warns the world of devils with punishments in the future if people continue to show the same behaviors. Through this painting, we can know how he is a sincere Christian and he tried to convey his belief and his thoughts by expressing on his paintings. 

 Second, He usually conveyed contents, backgrounds and characters of Bible through his paintings. One pictures would explain you why I think : Last judgement.
Last judgement includes the contents of Bible Matthew 13 and 24-25. Matthew 13 of Bible says that as foxtails are burned at the harvest, the wicked are thrown on the fire while the good would shine like Sun in the world of God at the end of the world. Bosch drew the situation of the end of the world according to Matthew 24-25. The painting is described the punishments. The punishments come from monstrous creatures of Hell. The damned are burned, speared, impaled, hung from butcher hooks, forced to eat impure food or subjects to cogs of bizarre machines. This scene has strong similarities with contents of Bible and reveals intention of Bosch that tried to inform the details of Bible. 

 Third, He used to use Flandre and Impasto techniques which are not related with surrealism when he drew his works. First, the reason why he used Flandre, he didn't want to reveal the fact that human made. He selected Flandre style to conceal humane aspects from his paintings so that he hardly signed on the paintings. In fact, he signed only seven of his paintings, and there is uncertainty whether all the paintings once ascribed to him were actually from his hand. Second, the reason why he used Impasto technique. Impasto is a way to draw uneven-surface-pictures by covering the colored pigments thick. This way also deny the fact the made by human and leave sacred impression rather than impression that painters took hard work on paintings. It is the apparent difference between altar paintings especially Hieronymus Bosch and Surrealism which uses Decalcomanie, a decorative technique by which engravings and prints may be transferred to pottery or other materials.

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http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=875400&cid=42645&categoryId=42645
http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=1147501&cid=40942&categoryId=31575

http://sumbolon.blogspot.kr/2014/07/blog-post_57.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decalcomania