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Sunday, 7-July-2002
On a different note I recently uncovered something for which I'd been searching the net for years. Many, many years ago I visited an exhibition in Linz of the works of Alfred Kubin and since then have always visualized the the poster from the gallery. It was a detail from a fantastic creature and made for an intriguing advert for the works. From time to time I tried various search engines and came up with very little - though often quoted as an influence, Kubin's drawings seem rarely represented.
On Friday I during one such peiodic search I found Beauty and Ruin a site devoted to Symbolist art inter alia and there Fairytale Creature, the work that gave rise to the image. All of the artist's works look much darker than I remember them. My reminisences are for a more folk-lore inspired genre; Grimms tales and Gorey without any saving humour; Kubin now looks gloomy and fantastic in equal measure. I wonder how good it has been to actually fill in the detail of the memory.
Good news bad news; new computer but having a bit of trouble getting old data and procedures transfered across, hence no EADT column from Saturday - sorry. Will be up and running soon I hope.
