Reply #14: You capture the spirit of the beast and the essence of the clan. [View All]

[Octafish]

Thanks for your surrealistic work, thebigidea. It is a most fascinating and accurate portrayal of a monstrous family that would be at home during the fall of the Roman Empire or the rise of the Fourth Reich. I can almost see Caligula in the eyes and Himmler in the smirk. A despicable bunch captured in Dorian Gray.

BTW & speaking of Max Ernst: The Art Institute of Chicago houses several of his works. One painting, for me, is unforgettably beautiful. The work uses glass as a canvas. It is very small, only about 5" X 9". In it, I remember seeing an ocean universe of dripping sky colors and shapes and forests and life and people and cities and stars, all moving in its frozen perfection. It is mounted on a gallery wall about elbow-high. This is the only work of art I have ever wanted to steal. Of course, I wouldn't, but I had the strangest urge of "having to have it" that persists to the present day. It should be mine, I guess. Have you read the short story about unforgettable things written by the late Jorge Louis Borges called the "The Zahir"? This Ernst is like that. Your bacchanal W is like that, too.