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...Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich) is smart, witty and lean. Wright's principal indulgences are visual, as in his 2007 film Atonement. He turns a neighborhood bar where a depressed Lopez pounds shots into something that glows like the inside of a vein, and makes Skid Row into a Hieronymus Bosch painting with grocery carts (using some of LA's estimated 60,000 homeless as extras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soloist: Elegy for Cello and Newspaper | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...reproductions allow viewers to navigate easily across large paintings like Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, moving from the serene portrait of Adam and Eve in paradise to Earth's naked bodies coupling inside a mussel shell or munching oversize pieces of fruit, or Hell's kissing pigs disguised as nuns, with an ease that - given the work's size and intricacy - would be denied a visitor standing before the actual 7-by-13-ft. (220 by 390 cm) triptych...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google Earth Takes On the Prado's Masterworks | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...Romanesque capitals and tympana in Catalan churches, from Ripoll in the north to Tarragona in the south, you catch yourself breathing his name. His bestiary of images, wild and swarming and drawn with a line as exact as a knife's cut, comes from multiple sources. One, obviously, was Hieronymus Bosch. Another was the decorative art of Islamic Spain, with its precise yet often hallucinatory stylization of animal and vegetable shapes; the first sign of its incursion into Miro's work is the 1918 Standing Nude, whose sturdy body, pleated with Cubist (or at any rate, cubified) wrinkles, poses against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PUREST DREAMER IN PARIS | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...just 100 years and a month before the Los Angeles museum show opened, published his first full-color page of Little Nemo in Slumberland in the New York Herald. Here was a popular art at its onset and apogee: not a primitive Lascaux cave painting but a Sunday-supplement Hieronymus Bosch - a glorious other-world of dreamscapes as phantasmagorical as they were funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Mad Need a Museum? | 2/3/2007 | See Source »

...very first significant comics artist was Winsor McCay, who, just 100 years ago, published his first full-color page of Little Nemo in Slumberland. Here was a popular art at its onset and apogee: not a primitive Lascaux cave painting but a Sunday- supplement Hieronymus Bosch--a glorious otherworld of dreamscapes as phantasmagoric as they were funny. "He created a vocabulary for artistic creation in comics," Carlin says of McCay, "showing how they could achieve extraordinary, avant-garde things without undermining their popular appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peanuts in the Gallery | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

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