Garden of Magic and Wonder: Entry into LMAC #10

This is my entry into @shaka's #letsmakeacollage contest, #10. Every week @shaka presents the Steemit community with a beautiful photograph. He invites us to make a collage out of his photo. The only rule is, don't violate copyright regulations. This week @shaka sent us this image to work with:

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When I began to imagine ideas that might work in this picture, I recalled the early sixteenth-century triptych, Garden of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymus Bosch. Every inch of Bosch's painting is filled with phantasmagorical details. The three panels that make up the piece tell a story: creation, fall from grace, and damnation.

Bosch went dark. I went light, and had a wizard to help me

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The Garden of Earthly Delights at a Glance

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Panel One

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Here we see the Garden of Eden. This is only the upper half of panel one. The lower half shows God introducing Adam to Eve. The theme is innocence. Light and beauty prevail.

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Panel Two

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Once again, only the upper portion of the panel is shown here. This is the largest of the three panels. Bosch does not spare us. He shows humanity depraved, insatiable, consumed by vice. Confusion and corruption prevail.

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Panel Three

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When I look at this panel (only the upper portion is shown here) I think of Dante's Inferno. This is hell. It seems the damned are consumed by the appetites that drove them in life. Hell's residents prey upon each other. Darkness and chaos prevail.

One well-known image from the lower portion of this panel is of a pig wearing a nun's veil.

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Trivia

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Source for the following information is My Modern Met

The Painting

1. 7' by 13'
2. Oil on oak
3. When the panels are closed, there's a picture of earth.
   

The Artist

1. Year of birth is uncertain, although it is known he lived in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
2. He was born in the Netherlands
3. About twenty-five of his pictures remain.
4. He was well-known in his lifetime.
5. None of his writings have survived, so art critics can only guess at the meaning of his art.

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My collage took shape in these steps:

I downloaded a picture from Pixabay (credit: mariamichelle).

and connected that picture to @shaka's.

Then I went to Paint 3d and looked for greenery and magical images.

Finally, I took that blended picture and headed over to GIMP, where I added lighting effects, and turned the whole thing into a GIF.

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When you get a chance, head over to #letsmakeacollage. There's still time to enter the contest. Anybody can have fun with this. Even if you don't enter, you'll see some amazing art.