Raqib Shaw Blossom gatherers II (detail) 2009–11

I walked through the Art Gallery of NSW today. This intrigued painting drew me from afar. On a closer look, it tells another story. If you could enlarge the image, you may understand what I meant. The following is a description about this painting. 

Works like Blossom gatherers II show the explicit influence of the Dutch Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch (c1450–1516), whose paintings Shaw has long admired at the National Gallery in London. 
Like Bosch, Shaw often weaves the erotic and the violent, scenes of debauchery and pleasure, into his highly coded theatrical paintings. Blossom gatherers II presents a fantastical dreamscape where all is not well. With its decorative floral patterns and abundance of colourful rhinestones, the work is seductively beautiful. Yet within its enamelled inlays and intricate details can be found mythical creatures and scenes of interspecies violence that make it as disturbing as it is alluring.