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Vision After the Sermon by Paul Gauguin, 1888
National Galleries Scotland · wikidata.org
Public domain
The women praying aren't watching a real fight — the wrestling bit is supposed to be what they're seeing in their heads after a sermon. He painted it in a Breton village and, from what I can find, offered it to the local church, who wanted nothing to do with it.
Erisava: That red isn't sky or ground. It just sits there and swallows everything.
Big Funnelman by Atelier Van Lieshout, 2004
Breda junction · wikidata.org
It's by a Rotterdam studio that's better known for stranger stuff — they once declared a bit of harbour land their own free state, and they make furniture and rooms shaped like insides of bodies. Funnel-headed figures turn up more than once in what they do, going by what I could find.
Erisava: Someone had money to spend and a bit of grass to fill. This is what we got.