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the power of art

updated sun 24 apr 11

 

James Freeman on sat 23 apr 11


The power of art

This, from the Austrian Times of 20 April:

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An oddball art lover is to marry one of his paintings after falling for the
girl in the portrait.

Obsessed Tomasz Urynowicz, 37, from Nowa Huta, Poland, has spent 10 years
trying to track down the brown-haired girl in the picture painted 56 years
ago.

"It shows a young girl hanging laundry. She has brown hair that shimmers in
the sun - absolute beauty. For the last decade, I have been trying to find
this girl. I thought that one of my neighbours may know her or the artist."

He explained: "I just wanted to meet her, sit down and have coffee and a
chat - to see who she is and what her life has been like."

But after years of failure, Urynoqicz is now looking for a priest who will
marry him to the painted version of the girl of his dreams.

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One can see the painting here:
http://austriantimes.at/news/Around_the_World/2011-04-20/32488/Easel-ly_Lov=
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I can't believe that no one recognized her. It's clearly Sally Field.

All the best.

...James

James Freeman

"...outsider artists, caught in the bog of their own consciousness, too
preciously idiosyncratic to be taken seriously."

"All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should
not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed."
-Michel de Montaigne

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