Playing the Indian Card

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

William Kurelek's Passion of Christ

Here, available online, is the full set of Canadian artist Willaim Kurelek's illustrations of Matthew's passion:

http://www.niagarafallsartgallery.ca/passion.htm

William Kurelek is a wonderful artist, and a personal favourite. As a young man, because of an abusive upbringing, he suffered terribly from depression, so bad that is was diagnosed as schizophrenia. His art, and his devotion (he was a convert to the Catholic Church) seemed to pull him out of it.

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