fear..... phobos I

Detail of Hell The Garden of Earthly Delights.

Fear as a subject of artistic creation has been used throughout the history of art from the earliest representations of the most primitive gods, which had its antagonist, to more current artists have focused if I work on this idea of fear if it is true that in some cases, more fear nearest cinema or freak show. Some of the most recognized authors who have dealt with fear, and have exercised an influence in some ways the picture, we find from the Middle Ages, is the case of Bosch, Jeroen van Anthoniszoon Aeken, sixteenth-century Dutch painter , where one of his most famous works, The Garden of Earthly Delights is heaven, purgatory and infer, and where within the last two predominant expression of fear, resulting in a triptych, which some define as Dante while it is true that the divine Comedy would be written some years later.

Untitled etching (called "the bridge")
Plate VII (of 16) of the series
Imaginary Prisons (Le Carceri d'invenzione),Rome, 1761

Another plastic authors to include in my previous scene photo to the invention is Piranesi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi Roman architect and writer, who during the eighteenth century, conducted a series of works, which can already be seen certain features of a primitive social fears, which with the advent of photography and the "liberation" of painting will also happen in the vanguard. It is necessary to name this period of the avant-known paintings like The Scream Edvuard Munch expressionist painter, in which the social context, which then begins to experience the psychology of Freud. takes us back to a much more social fears, fears that a primary, that is the expression of fear begins to evolve, separated by fears aside, but the primary self-imposed by society, so as to emerge, thanks to two streams of psychology at the time to understand the fear.

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