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People wonder what drugs artists are on and in this case i have to say... nothing.
These paintings made by the same guy and they didn't even have caffeine.
I did a quick search and mandrake, henbane and mugwort are hallucigens that were available during Bosch's time.
I’m not sure I totally believe that but even still, this was a time when strong beers and fortified wines were basically more common than good drinking water…
Alcohol can result in some nice ideas and visions, but it can't explain shit like that.
But then again, maybe this guy discovered magic mushrooms? There was nothing against them back then.
Ergotism? Sometimes wheat supplies got contaminated by a fungus that lets you talk to god.
I heard about those. The effects might have been exaggerated given the concentration wasn't as high (and wouldn't get as high until the late 19th century when chemistry advanced that we could make pure forms of it).
Why do you call AI that? Poor AI. Didn't deserve that.
Its called "The vision of tundale" from the artist Hieronymus Bosch
Your comment translated:
On behalf of Heironymous Bosch, and surrealists everywhere, promptly go fuck yourself, you uneducated, smarmy never-was-or-will-be.
I would say that it could not be AI because AI is a nightmarish MESS and no AI has the imagination and powerful vision of humans. Seriously, Hieronymus Bosch, and the numerous other medieval/renaissance artists who came up with some serious outlandish visions that they put on display through their art is the thing for the ages.
Uncreative people often claim that visions like that are the product of drugs and insanity, but often times creative people are just that... creative! Many Creative people aren't even weird or off when people meet them.
Rowan Atkinson, the creator and actor behind Mr. Bean, also did a shitload of other comedic roles (Blackadder, Not the 9 o'clock News, Man vs. Bee, etc) wrote most of the craziest scenarios you've ever seen... but when people meet him and talk to him in real life, they're surprised at just how BORING he is as a person. Weird Al Yankovic, one of the most successful novelty singers of the 80s to 2000s, is a fairly sociable person in real life and does make jokes like everyone else, but nothing would tell you that this guy can parody other artist's styles and genres to a T (and in some cases his parodies exceed the popularity of the original).
Again, people who did many of those Renaissance artworks, or early 18th century Sequential arts (such as Hogarth) packed so much detail in their works that the way many art historians look at those old paintaings not as simple still images, but more like cinema in one image. Because they were packed with so much detail that you had to spend a lot of time just looking at individual bits and parts, and many of those told their own stories.
That is not AI.
You're positively lost online.
https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/object/1948.37