so i am completely tired of doing the class blogs. they're total crap most of the time. i don't know, i'm going to go do one of them now but i don't like it nor do i want to. i'd rather cut off my left ring finger with my chef's knife. but yeah, what did i like about chapter 19? i think it was 19. and i loved the fact that the artwork by the northern masters has a lineage coming down to us in some surrealist pieces. it was much more creative and real than the italian masters. there was no formula that dictated how you should paint in the north, unlike the south. The painter that i really enjoyed the most was Bosch. His triptych, on the Christian life, was an amazing abstraction of the world. Its execution was solid and high quality. His life, as his work, is based on unknown influences. his work was a mixture of conservative and reformist tendencies, a common conflict in his time. the Reformation caused widespread instability and allowed for Bosch, a heretical painter, to do work on church altar-pieces. In his works he satirizes the church and its doctrines. Bosch suggests corruption in the church insidiously, for "as one looks at the entire picture, one notices nuns scrambling about frantically collecting hay into their bags. A nun in the foreground is making advances toward a musician." He is an innovative artist and worked hard to convey his deep meanings subtly in the works. His vibrant colors, abstraction and general good taste result in paintings that are pleasing to the eye even if they are deeply disconcerting when actually examined.