💀 In the 16th century, Renaissance painters made it their calling to embody on earth the perfect world created by God. Their brushtips were always directed 'Upward'. The aesthetic pursued by Renaissance painters was mathematical precision. The proportion of the body realized through the Golden Ratio meant a state free of moral defects. In their works, 'Good and Evil' were clear. Heaven was happiness, and Hell was punishment. The Renaissance defined the purpose of art as giving solace and sublimity to the viewer. The human of the Golden Ratio was depicted as the most beautiful being, a replica of God.
In the 16th century, during this beautiful period, Hieronymus Bosch interpreted the Renaissance with his own unique works.
🎨 Hieronymus Bosch made it his calling to deconstruct the perfect world created by God on the canvas. His brushtips were always directed 'Downward'. The aesthetic pursued by Bosch was destructive grotesquerie. Bodies that were grotesquely distorted and combined with other beings meant a state full of moral defects. In his works, 'Good and Evil' were mixed. The pleasure of Heaven was a prelude to pain, and Hell was reality. Hieronymus Bosch operated the purpose of art in a way that induced fear and alarm in the viewer. The grotesquely distorted human was depicted as hidden greed and madness.
At the end of the 20th century, Alexander McQueen presented Hieronymus Bosch on his own runway. Alexander McQueen made it his calling to express the grotesque and deconstructed world created by Bosch in his runway and luxury fashion. His fashion was always directed 'Inward'. The aesthetic pursued by McQueen was Savage Beauty. Torn silhouettes, fashion that overlaid blade-like metal on soft silk, or placed the bones of taxidermied birds on lavish embroidery, appeared on the stage like wounded living creatures. In his fashion, 'Beauty and Horror' were mixed into one. Elegance was a sign of oppression, and decoration was another name for a wound. Alexander McQueen stated that the purpose of fashion was to make the audience know the thrill and the unpleasant truth. It was not a 'pleasing beauty', but an uncomfortable yet truthful beauty, and McQueen's human body was a 'fragile soul that needed to be protected'.
On this day, February 11, 2010, McQueen passed away. It was a suicide by hanging. He was 40 years old. The next day was scheduled to be his mother's funeral.
These two masters never met, nor could they ever meet. However, McQueen directly used Bosch's masterpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights in his final posthumous collection. Today, 'McQueen' met his mentor 'Bosch', holding his final work.
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