Pride — Hieronymus Bosch

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5 thoughts on “Pride — Hieronymus Bosch”

  2. Nice to have another pic of a painting by Bosch, especially with the docu film and soon to be opened exhibition – but you post a pic of a paint and nothing else?

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      1. Yes what? Why not explain the picture, tell us why you picked it, what you like or dislike about it. Just searching the web and posting a pic of someone’s painting … is that what your blog’s all about?

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        1. “Explain the picture”

          —Jesus. Look, I don’t like to be mean on the internet—really I don’t—but why do you care why I explain it or not? I mean, it’s beyond me what motivates these types of comments, which I usually just don’t approve, because they’re utterly meaningless—they boil down to: “Why isn’t your blog the way I think your blog should be?”

          The blog is not for you; it’s for me. It’s an utterly solipsistic activity, at its core, and if I feel like posting a painting I’ll post it, with or without commentary (would it matter to you to know why *I* wanted to look at the Superbia panel of Bosch’s Sins? –That’s a rhetorical question—totally not interested in the answer: What I’m saying is: I was interested in looking at that panel for a particular reason at a particular moment, and I put it in this scrapbook). I’m not beholden to your rubric. Similarly, I wouldn’t dream of going to your place and telling you how to run it. Would never even occur to me to say, “Oh, hey here’s how *I* would have done it.

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