Ricki Yasha TarrWhen I was little, someone showed me the painting Where The Bears Picnic aka The Bear Dance, and I had so much FOMO, that animals were having secret parties I wasn't invited to.
Share a piece of art that had an effect on you as a small child too!
Nick@RickiTarr Being a kid whose head was involuntarily filled with religious terror, I was absolutely scared shitless by a painting of the last judgment/judgment day in a reference book we had, an encyclopaedia type thing. It might not have actually been the Bosch painting of it, but it was Bosch-like, with lots of horrors like people rising from their graves, being thrown into flames, tortured by demons, others marching up to heaven in the nude etc. It was A Lot.
Mat BIt's funny you should say this, when I was about 7 we'd visit my parents best friends, a hippy/stoner couple (not that I knew that at the time but their house was very different to my straight laced folks), who had a fireguard with The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch on it. I would sit on the floor studying it for ages every time we visited.
I was, and still am, mesmerized by it. Like absolutely nothing I'd ever seen before.
In hindsight I think that explains a lot ðŸ«
jamesb (MW1CGG)@jamesb @Nickiquote @RickiTarr
No, Hampton, Middlesex.
@jamesb @TwoClownsEating @RickiTarr Maybe it was more common than we think. Green lady portrait above the mantle, flying ducks on the wall and an Unearthly Bumgarden fireguard.
@Nickiquote @jamesb @RickiTarr
I think it's kind of fitting, a fireguard that actually draws the curious and darker spirited children closer to the fire.
Dr Alice Violett@TwoClownsEating @Nickiquote @jamesb @RickiTarr what if you had a Bumgarden fireguard *and* a Crying Boy print? 😮
@alicemcalicepants @Nickiquote @jamesb @RickiTarr
Sounds like a case for operation yewtree.