Week 04: Human Form(s)

You’ve seen images of Hubert van Eyck’s paintings pinned up around studio — more from our conversations about Late Gothic / Early Netherlandish / Northern Renaissance art — and more to come.

Look at the collections of people: the form(s) they make, how they occupy space, the depth of the space, their collective focus, and their imperfect mirrored organization. Everything imagined suggests specific narratives through iconography (the interpretation of imagery). What are the narrative effects of scale? Compare the people in the painting below (The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, 1432) with the human forms in Bosch’s painting (The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1490-1510).

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