Monday, November 17, 2008

The First Goal of the Chilean People

A mural by Chile's famed surrealist painter Roberto Matta has finally been unveiled after it was covered by sixteen coats of paint during the country's military dictatorship in the 1970s.
Why sixteen? Makes me think of "Sixteen Tons" (Merle Travis, 1946) and St. Peter . . .

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