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Man decorates basement with $10 worth of
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When Charlie Kratzer
started on the basement art project in his south Lexington home, he
was surrounded by walls painted a classic cream. Ten dollars of
Magic Marker and Sharpie later, the place was black and cream and
drawn all over. |
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There are fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and
Sherlock Holmes, Winston Churchill lounging with George Bernard
Shaw — and the TV squirrel Rocky and his less adroit moose pal
Bullwinkle. |
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Says Kratzer of his cartoon of a cartoon: "You
appreciate the cleverness more as an adult." |
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There's Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande
Jatte. There is Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston
Churchill, and the Cornell Law School, of which Kratzer is an
alumnus. There is Kratzer's dad. There is the harlequin pattern —
alluded to in culinary culture today by the Panera bread bag — and
a fake fireplace facing a real one. |
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There are both The Walrus and the Carpenter (from
Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found
There), and William Shakespeare. The Marx Brothers peer around
a corner. A flip-top garbage can is transformed via marker art into
Star Wars' plucky little beeper R2D2. |
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Kratzer might be a lawyer by day, but in his off
hours he is a man who has taken the artistic influences and heroes
of his life and imagined them onto his walls, that he might keep
company with them while he uses the pool
table. |
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