Fantastic Mrs. Fox

I recently met Fantastic Mrs. Fox again, and Fantastic Mr. Fox as well. Both in the animated film by Wes Anderson and in real life while out skiing on the sea the other day. Mrs. Fox is an old acquaintance from last year when she and her friend lured around our house every other day.  Their brownish-red colours and magnificent tails were impressing.  We follow their traces, but our meetings are very quick, almost as if they are unreal. Mr. Fox looses his tail in the movie and it is used as a tie by the crooks.

 

Mr. Fox from the novel by Roald Dahl could not stop stealing, while our real neighborhood offers very little to steal and ice-hard ground not possible to dig a centimeter into.  I guess birds have an uneasy living around them though.  Still, the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Willem Dafoe echoes when Mrs. Fox runs in the deep deep snow to find a hideout, or maybe something to eat and drink for New Years Eve?

 

The most prominent portrayer of foxes in Sweden was the painter Bruno Liljefors. His work can be seen at Thielska galleriet in Stockholm until the end of January in an exhibition celebrating that it is 150 years since he was born. There are some foxes to be seen here among many other works depicting nature with a seldom talked about versatility. Liljefors turned his fox-paintings into mass production in an economic sparse time and hence the market does not like them as much as his birds which are easier to sell according to auction houses.

 

One of our evening newspaper quoted a joke about him and it goes something like this:

- What did Bruno Liljefors say when he painted Mona Lisa?

- Ehh, I don’t know. What?

- Fuck, it has become a fox.

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