Bosch Tarots
Stunning surrealist art deck based on Hieronymus Bosch's 15th-century works.
by A. Atanassov · 2000
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The "Bosch Tarot", a stunning art deck, is based on the work of 15th century artist Hieronymous Bosch. The artwork comes across as a combination of surrealistic and whimsical, reflecting a mixture of reality, animism and monsters. The longer you look at it, though, the scarier it gets! This makes sense when you realize that Bosch was well known for his dark way of looking at life, and his ability to make the dark sides even darker by placing them together with the real world. The coloring is in predominate shades of yellows, oranges, light greens and blue-grays. The style appears to be line drawing in colored pencil. One of the things that I like about this deck is its attention to detail. Lacking knowledge in art history, I did have to do some research on Bosch. Atanassov has certainly drawn his inspiration from Bosch's work, including a work that I had heard reference to, but never seen before - "The Garden of Earthly Delights". Actually, I did the research before I looked at the deck, so "finding things" was a great deal of fun! The LWB (Little White Book) is not a book, per se, but the pamphlet that traditionally comes with each deck. It is formatted in the accordion style, not
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