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Before and After [1]

Fiction [2]
8.31.16

“I remember very vividly where I was when I saw my very first big Surrealist exhibition...It was sort of a Tarzan-and-the-giant-spider moment. I absolutely see it as a hinge. There’s a pre-that-picture me and a post-that-picture me. And I’m very glad to be the post-that-picture me,” China Miéville [3] says about the Max Ernst painting “Europe After the Rain [4]” in a New Yorker article. Write a short story in which a character encounters a work of art that changes his life in a similarly noteworthy way. What resonates with the character to have such a lasting impression? How does his life change post-that-picture?


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/before_and_after_1 [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [3] http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/china-mieville-and-the-politics-of-surrealism [4] http://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/europe-after-the-rain-ii