Double Vision of William Kurelek: Christ’s Love and Apocalyptic Warnings

NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTRY
By Steve Weatherbe

"The Rock" by William Kurlek

CANADA---A farmer stands in a vast wheat field that stretches out behind him across the huge canvas to a distant horizon and a crystalline, cloudless blue sky: The Ukrainian Pioneer painting is on display at a Victoria, British Columbia, art gallery as part of an ambitious retrospective on Canada’s great landscape painter William Kurelek. Wait a moment: That sky is not quite cloudless. Tucked neatly into the corner is a mushroom cloud. Until Sept. 3, at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Americans from the Pacific Northwest will be able to get a once-in-a-lifetime chance to study one of Canada’s most popular, enigmatic — and Catholic — painters. [link]