'monsters'

All the anonymous artworks in cathedrals and churches in Europe! Details made by stone-carvers. Drainpipes made like grotesque figures. Skulls staring without eyes. Secret patterns on the floor. Cloven-footed wooden legs on chairs. Came to think about “Where the Wild Things are” by Maurice Sendak when seeing some creatures in the gothic Meissen cathedral in Germany this summer. One of my favourite books as a child.

 

I read that Sendak got the inspiration not from monsters in a cathedral, but from his relatives. They came to visit his family when he was young, didn’t speak English and grabbed hold of his cheeks. Since the cooking of his mother was terrible he was afraid they would eat him instead! (Source TT Spektra news agency). Reading the Dave Eggers book and then seeing the film by him and Spike Jonze gave fuel to the unpredictable and inexplicable. Live wild in between reality and fantasy, but beware of the abyss.

 

…Die Neue Wilden or Wild Youth was the name given to some artists in the end of the seventies and beginning of the eighties. They opposed to the Minimal and Conceptual art and painted expressive, colourful and intense.

… "Wild One" or "Real Wild Child" was first released in the end of the fifties and has been performed by many, but I recall Iggy Pop and Billy Idol embodying the lyrics.

 

 

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