page_title: Kalervo Palsa
section_title: Notable works
hierarchical_section_title: Kalervo Palsa / The art of Kalervo Palsa / Notable works
caption_attribution_description: Kalervo Palsa Museum, Getsemane, the Artist's Studio
context_page_description: Huugo Kalervo Palsa, or Kalle, was a Finnish artist in a style that has been described as fantastic realism.
  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.
context_section_description: Turva ("Security") is a painting of a giant anus surrounded by images of all the Boschian horrors that a sensitive artist could imagine. At the center of the painting the anus opens as a window showing a man blissfully seated in a rockingchair seemingly untouched by the horrors.
  Missi Paskantaa ("A Beauty Pageant Contestant Takes a Dump"), a black-and-white inked comic strip. The work consists of a few pages of Pythonian deadpan illustrated technical description of the practical ramifications of even beauty pageant contestants having to defecate. It finally ends with an illustrated listing of varieties of consistency of faeces that might come out such a girls anus with attendant analysis.
  Eläkeläinen Muistelee ("Retiree Reminisces"), a black-and-white inked comic-book recounting a plethora of highly surreal homosexual sadistic tales.
  Miehen Kuukautiset ("The Male Period"), painting of a man's bleeding anus.
  Vapautuminen ("Deliverance"), a Munchausenian painting of a man suspended in mid-air hanged by a rope attached around the glans of his own huge penis.
  Uusi Ihminen ("New (Hu)Man"), a man giving birth through his anal opening.
caption: Artist's studio
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