SUSRET STVARALAČKIH IMAGINACIJA JERONIMA BOŠA I NOVICE TADIĆA

Abstract

The famous Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (1450 – 1516) and the contemporary Serbian poet Novica Tadić (1949 – 2011) are related through the most significant characteristics of their works – the presence of the creative imagination which made similar apocalyptic scenes and diabolical characters both on canvas and on paper. Using transmedial theories, we can see the transmission of the painting techniques in shaping of Tadic’s descriptive narratives. This painter whose work belongs to the High Renaissance and Mannerism made, with his grotesquely shaped half-human, half-animal and half-demon beings, an arc from “the autumn of the Middle Ages” and the upcoming Renaissance to the Baroque. Five centuries later, his metaphors, inter- preted in many ways, receive an epitome in the poetic images of Tadić’s hellish bestiary, contin- uing an intriguing dialogue with religion. Guided by Guy Scarpetta’s theoretical assumption of “the return of the Baroque”, in this paper we will try to show that those two artists are more associated with the tendency to represent the reality as an illusion, and to create an impression of unreality of the real world, than with the similarity of their images.