There is a new documentary about the life of artist William Kurelek, who’s painting, “The Maze” was used for Van Halen’s “Fair Warning” album cover art. For more info about the troubled artist, see our Story Behind Van Halen’s Fair Warning Album Cover Art.
ABOUT THE FILM
William Kurelek’s The Maze is a documentary about the life of celebrated Canadian artist William Kurelek, dramatically told through his paintings and his on camera revelations. The film takes an intimate look into the life of one of the 20th century’s most fascinating artists and his struggles with attempted suicide and a self professed “spiritual crisis”. Kurelek describes The Maze as “a painting of the inside of [his] skull which [he] painted while in England as a patient in Maudsley and Netherne psychiatric hospitals.” Kurelek’s surrealistic painting , featured inthe film, depicts a man’s unraveled head lying in a wheat field. A curled up laboratory rat, representing his spirit, is trapped inside a maze of unhappy thoughts and memories.