If your PC opens the DCM file, but it's the wrong application, you'll need to change your Windows registry file association settings. In other words, Windows is associating DCM file extensions with the wrong software program.
In the beginning, Sundblom painted the image of Santa using a live model â his friend Lou Prentiss, a retired salesman. When Prentiss passed away, Sundblom used himself as a model, painting while looking into a mirror.
Paula Rego, the artist, says that she was inspired by a photograph taken during the second Iraqi war. While a photograph of this sort might be a common sight in the news, replacing the victims with rabbits, a symbol of purity, gives the work a deeply disturbing angle.