One woman passed out as dozens of terrified art lovers fled from the Wolfson gallery during the stunt.
He produced a larger figure each year, terrifying the art world.
Because I was raised in a house without television, I would play out The Story of the Soldier in my mind's eye along with the music, aided in my childhood imaginings by rather terrifying album art that pictured the roadside encounter with the devil in all his various guises.
The slightly terrifying street art homage to the newly elected mayor comes courtesy of Hanksy, the pun-happy graffitist who likes to combine wordplay with caricature portraits of celebrities, and artist Alex Pardee.
That simplicity is further pared to a pitch at once heavenly and terrifying in the art of Ed Ruscha.
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It is the night in which Mary Magdalene sits in contemplation in the paintings of Georges de la Tour; in which people witness a terrifying experiment in the art of Joseph Wright of Derby; through which Picasso has a child lead a blind minotaur.
"Who Was That Masked Man" is terrifying and bracing, like great art should be: it takes its title from the Lone Ranger and maybe from Lenny Bruce, and in it Morrison grapples with loneliness, identity, and distrust (the album was recorded quickly, after his divorce from Janet Planet).
