Qian Zhu

Qian Zhu

August 20, 2024

Semiotics, The rule of thirds, Bosch.

Hieronymus Bosch is known as the greatest painter in the Renaissance of the Netherlands. He not only created many works with social themes and folk proverbs as the theme, but also had a very imaginative and transcendent painting style, which deeply inspired the creation and expansion of later generations. This paper uses Peirce's semiotic theory and combines the second tripartite method, such as image, index and symbol, to comprehensively explore and analyze Bosch's art form, and tries to re-explore its artistic connotation from different perspectives and reveal its hidden meaning. Finally, it proves that the three kinds of symbols in Bosch's works are closely related, interweaving and influencing each other, and their process constantly produces logical explanations, thus stimulating the viewer's conceptual consciousness, making the symbols interpret infinite meanings and delaying meanings.

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