Word: hieronymus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Booth in his latest escape plans, Billy goes berserk and mutilates the lifeless body of Rifki (a scene that ranks up there with the most wanton exercises of filmed violence marking Jaws and The French Connection), and he winds up in the ward for the criminally insane. Like some Hieronymus Bosch painting suddenly come to life, the ward makes the rest of Sagmalcilar seem like Allenwood in comparison. Any glimmer of self-respect and dignity has been apparently extinguished in Billy Hayes as he wanders zombie-like among the blubbering semblances of human beings that populate the ward...
Lecture: Wlater S. Gibson, professor of Art, on "Hieronymus Bosch and the Late Medieval Vision of Hell." Jewett Auditorium...
...artist-authors prove adept at combing a broad range of styles. The influence of Arthur Rackham is clearly evident; so are touches as wide-ranging as Hieronymus Bosch, the Pre-Raphaelites and Maxfield Parrish. The result is a seductive ring of words and bright pictures that encircles mystery and merriment and, eventually, the reader...
...Water. His house is a lively jumble. The huge boots he wore as the Pinball Wizard in the movie Tommy stand near a Picasso. Two stuffed leopards are a leap away from three Rembrandt etchings. Says Elton: "All I really crave now is an original Toulouse-Lautrec or a Hieronymus Bosch...
...this bleak landscape, there are a few interesting outcroppings. One is a kind of surrealism that owes more to Hieronymus Bosch than to Salvador Dali. The best examples, currently at the Aberbach Gallery, are the works of Miodrag Djuric Dado, a Yugoslav painter who works in France. His L 'Hôpital has a jolting impact: beyond the window is the peaceful French village where Dado now lives. Inside, a demon in the shape of an owl crouches by the central crucifix, near the dancing man and his maimed and malevolent companion. A rotund dwarf grins and looks away...