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About 6 months ago i saw these chinese porcelain statues . They were Gauy yins and they were rose and silver adn robins egg blue. They were made of bisque porcelain. They have haunted me . Any Similar experinces.

anthony, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kurelek's painting 'Maze'. By using it as an album cover, Van Halen were my portal into the visual arts. How's that for unusual?

dave q, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gerhard Richter's Baader-Meinhof pics which I saw at the ICA nearly ten years ago now, and which still haunt me. MMMMMM...shadowy....

Andrew L, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm comletely w/DQ re kurelek's "The Maze", tho' I first saw it in the time life book "The MinD", wot I pix0red up @ a car boot sale, 'cuz it looked interesting, like. It's an incredible, vivid work.

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Norman Fay, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not william Kurlek the praririe artist . That would be weird.

anthony, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mapplethorpe's work. Sadly this also means Patti Smith on the Horses LP.

nathalie, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, the very same Kurelek.

dave q, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He is one of my heros and he was on a van halen album. please somebody email em the image , i am scared.

anthony, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The best I can find is this, anthony:

fair warning

Sadly, it isn't that great a scan.

The Van Halen cover uses a small section of "The Maze", namely the bit with the child pointing at the two fighting figures. For years I thought they had used an excerpt from a breughel painting. It's a pretty disturbing work, and very breughel-ish in its entirety IMO. Very inaginative as well - the view out through the mouth into the prairie, w/thee crows circling - wow!

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Norman Fay, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually - oone other thing - the pic on the VH website is v.similar to the one in the "The Mind" book, in that it looks like it's been cropped down the LH side, and across the bottom. I wonder if the actual painting is bigger still?

Norman Fay, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

kurlek has this weird duality to his work. it is often happy farmers pastaraols landscapes etc but there is this elemnt of grotesque reliogn. fascianting fellow.

anthony, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the painting by Picasso of a girl holding a dove. 'the waves' by Virginia Woolf. 'infinite jest' by David Foster Wallace. the Gayer- Anderson Cat in the British Museum. the Taj Mahal.

katie, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Deluge (1920) by Winifred Knights currently in Tate Modern. Plenty other pieces in there which are more innovative or challenging but something about the fear and panic of the participants stays wiith me.

Billy Dods, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I always think of Michealangelo when I think of Pinicales of civilisation

Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The big Rothko display in the Tate Modern makes one hell of an impact.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...
new answers , calming answers

anthony, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...
new answers please

anthony, Friday, 21 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anne Noble - Ruby's Room.

rainy, Tuesday, 25 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...
On holiday in Mallorca this winter I saw for the first time work by international artist Astrid Colomar on exhibit at two public spaces. What a revelation! And indeed I have yet to to forget it. The tremendous amount of contemporary art that I see every week often only prompts me to seek refuge in my memory of this meditative work. A large-scale painting, titled Universal Blood, at Pallau Sollerich was dumbfoundingly beautiful. I almost forget to breath when I call it to mind.

Simon Rothchild, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...
I've stumbled across this discussion list by searching for "The Maze" by William Kurelek. Kurelek's "The Maze" has fascinated me ever since seeing it in the Time Life "The Mind" as a 8 YO in about 1968. In the same book, I think, was art work by Hieronymus Bosch - Garden of Earthly Delights and other haunting art work by Vincent van Gogh. That Time Life Science series of books were very special to an 8 YO a long time ago. I've made sure I've seen the art works of Vincent van Gogh in Amsterdam and Hieronymus Bosch in Spain and Belgium. But where can I see "The Maze"? I think it might be in a private collection in NY according to what I read in "The Mind" many years ago. Can I order a print from somewhere? Please mail me - Leon_Foucault@yahoo.com. Ta.

Leon Foucault, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooops, my email address in the previous posting should have a .au appended. I'm from downunder, Australia!!! Cheers.

Leon Foucault, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...
I need a dump.

Mo, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...
you suck says nora ortega i am better than all of you i am a damn mexican and i am also british

nora ortega, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I am enlightened.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...
Still longing for the auld days when ILE was grebt.

Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 26 May 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

the photography of peter bialobrzeski. in fact, i almost feel like i can describe myself with it. even his pictures of buildings.

firstworldman (firstworldman), Saturday, 27 May 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

My mother traumatised my early childhood by putting a full sized copy of "Son of Man" by Rene Magritte at the top of the stairs. I warmed to it eventually.... unlike....

SALEM by Sydney Curnow Vesper (sp?). This is a painting of a Welsh woman looking for a seat in church in around 1900 or so, which my aunt used to have (also at the top of the stairs). I used to find it a blast, until my uncle pointed out that the face of "Satan" was hidden in the woman's shawl, which it totally mortified the life out of 10 year old me. Whenever I went there afterwards I had to close my right eye in case I caught a glimpse. I went on holiday with my aunt and uncle to Aberaeron once, and it just seemed to be "everywhere"... on postcards, in an art gallery, in a framed photo of my aunt's dog (sitting at the top of the stairs). It was like the image was "following" me. I spent one night under the covers in the caravan, crying my eyes out because I was scared that when I died Heaven/Hell would be as gothic or scary as in that portrait. I think that's probably the most profound effect art has had on me.

JTS (JTS), Saturday, 27 May 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)


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