Tag Archives: Holland
Baffling Bosch
Contemporary artists are caught between two cruel poles that simultaneously demand startling originality while declaring “It’s all been done before.” The study of art history is rather like playing with a Russian doll: separating artists and movements contained within the influences of other artists and influences ad nauseam. Most artists and creative schools necessarily build [...]
Posted in Art
Tagged Alchemy, drugs, Early Netherlandish painting, heresy, Hieronymous Bosch, Holland, Portugal, Spain, Witchcraft
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War and Tulips
George Pal’s Tulips Shall Grow was released in 1942. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons this stop-action masterpiece is about the enduring love between a Dutch boy and girl who face the invasion of their idyllic homeland by The Screwballs: A race of mechanical men who threaten to destroy everything in [...]
Posted in Cinema
Tagged Academy Award, cartoon, Cheekwood, Dutch, George Pal, Holland, nazi, Occupation, stop-action, Tulip, Tulips Shall Grow
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