Kalervo Palsa

Hugo Kalervo Palsa (March 12, 1947 - October 3, 1987), or Kalle was a Finnish artist in a style that has been described as fantastic realism.

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Long neglected, Kalervo Palsa has enjoyed a revival of sorts since the publication of critical works, a biography and two major retrospectives in Helsinki and Pori.

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His life evinced a good degree of northern madness. Among his local contemporaries of Kittil? in Lapland he had the reputation of a drunken artist masturbating at home and painting furiously.

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He felt haunted both by his perverse urges and the provincial and narrow-minded mental perimeter of his northern hometown.

March 12: March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). There are 294 days remaining....

1947: 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar)....

October 3: :3rd October Organization is also the name of a Marxist terrorist group....