What the Gothic painter would have in common with the controversial fashion photographer? At first sight nothing. Bosch is considered the first fantastic artist influencing, subsequently, the expressionism and the surrealist movement. Lachapelle is, on his turn, next to Matthew Barney, one of the most influential representatives of the contemporary surrealist art.

The key word that connects then is fantasy. The art that celebrates the world of the dreams, grotesque, imagination, visions and sensations of a worldly life. Both use the unreal as a powerful weapon, each one with their own techniques, whose main objective is to shock the society. By this way, they can criticize and moralize them.

The cultural context that impelled Bosch to drive his art by the roads of the fantastic sense and the depths of the human spirit cannot be dissociated of the religious convulsions that designate the passage of the Medium Age for the Renaissance. The painter had, in fact, an unique style marked by a society very strict and dominated by the catholic church. Soon, the fear of the hell, the imminent death and the punishment of the sins informed the psyche of his contemporaries. Bosch, sensible to this world, transposed for his canvas this collective fear adopting, still, a moral character clearly displayed, for example, in the Latim inscription in the center of the work The seven sins: "Care, care, God observes.". His work also suffered the influence of the rumors of the Apocalypse, which arose nearby the year of 1500. So, the mystery of his art is straightly linked to the own mystery of the human mind. Differently of the Renaissance artists, the painter dives in the deep and interior reality of the human being. In other words, while Leonardo dissected corpses to understand our body, Bosch hid himself into the deepest layers of the spiritual condition. His painting portrays fairly the world town by terror, the permanent nightmare in that the sin lying in wait to each moment, the denial of the reason and where man lives lacerated of upper necessities.

After movements as the expressionism, cubism and mainly the surrealism, is possible understand the up to that time unpublished language of Bosch: the composition of figures with elements you shoot, secluded of your traditional and common places. It is a representation of the fantastic and unreal one: a rider, by example, is born of the tail of a mermaid. These apparently strange and incoherent elements to our logical world appear with frequency in the works of the painter. But by that join incompatible objects when most of the artists is going to express itself by means of images of the routine one? The goal of Bosch and of the fantastic artists is going to achieve the invisible and deep essence that the painter is going to exist in the things, transcend the plan of the appearances, the immediate and sensible world! David Lachapelle and Matthew Barney.

As a perfect artist in the century XXI, Lachapelle presents a multimedia work: does fashionable photograph and celebrities, commercial, music videos, film and installations. As well as Bosch, is impossible understand his art and criticisms without think about the private world in that he lived: famous, powerful persons and socially classified as "pretty" healthy retreats of its context, or, is able to be said "zone of comfort", acquiring a new representation and meanings – worthy displacements of a good fantastic artist.