The Garden

Carrying on the Religious notion of utopia/dystopia being, "Heaven and hell" carried on during the renaissance period (1400-1600) with a well known artist Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516). Bosch painted a triptych which was a popular standard format for altar paintings from the Middle Ages onwards but which originates from the Greek "triptychos", the word arose into the Medieval period from the name for an Ancient Roman writing tablet. This triptych is called "The Garden Of Earthly Delights," which is oil on wood, sizing 220cm x 389cm and currently lives in Museo del Prado in Madrid. Below image.

It consist of three panels each with a different story as to tell. The left panel represents heaven where god is standing between what can only be described as Adam and Eve who are surrounded by strange animals and peaceful and serene surroundings. image below.

 The middle panel represents the world in the current time of creating it in the 15th century and to me is very typical of surrealism and Bosch could be seen as one of the first surrealist. When it comes to the happening with in the painting to me it appear to be a collection of mixed behavior. For example you have what appears to be a pool of Innocent girls in the middle surrounded by what could be seen as young lads just sinfully enjoying them self's on horses. In contract there is also a few sceans where a some youths are become sexually interment, so to me there are goings on that could lead to both heaven and hell. Image below

When it comes to the last panel there is no mistake that this is hell, with dark colours and eating of humans, not to mention the gates of fiery hell in the upper right hand Connor. (image below).

Here we see that humans how could of originally enjoyed the passion of being sexual are now in turn being attacked by animal like creatures. I it say to say that in this time period the ideas of heaven and hell were set in stone and were widely the same for every one.