Aesthetics Aficionado Pillows

Cover Design for Beardsley's 'Book of Fifty Drawings'

You're my Mona Lisa.

Copycats

I've been teaching art history for decades. Students today ask new kinds of questions. No, I doubt a gluten-free menu option was available that evening. Nope, the artist was not making a statement about climate change. No, despite the umbrellas, this is not about sun exposure safety. Well, yes, I suppose you can say it's a selfie.

Madonna of the Pukes.

"I think that's one of his early 'blank canvases'. I think there are some bigger ones in the next room."

Paul Klee

"I call it 'Bad Dog.'"

Men's Suits. I hear being suave and sophisticated is coming back in style. That's just an urbane legend.

Wolf Danny With "Random""The work must be tantamount to mayhem. Making an insatiable public confused, indifferent, annoyed—this is the premise on which rests my deliberately vacuous oeuvre."

Cariactures

"I'm off to the gym, where my private self and my public self converge."

Doctor examining Easter Island statue.

'The way the eyes follow you is uncanny.'

"Will you have a Sphinx?"

Dressed for Success!

"Welcome to Off-Off-Off Broadway."

(Camel paintings)

'Of all the nerve!...Making us sit through the whole of their Bayeux Tapestries!!'

German Expressionist Breakfast

'It's one of Larry King's earliest shows.'

Ladies of the Creation! - No. VIII - Mary protecting the weaker sex

"Mr. Right!"

"No, ma'am. I'm not sure what the difference is between being creative or just plain weird."

"You don't think it's too ungapatchka?"

"Lautrec or Gary? Hmmm... We'll take Gary."

Horti-Culture

Distractions Of The Great

"An unfortunate museum gift shop." "Banksy activity set." "Jackson Pollock coloring book." "MC Escher building blocks." "Claes Oldenburg miniatures." "Marceau Marceau CDs." "Seurat's connect-the-dots aaAAAAA."

Baroque Peacock

The Euro-Trash Trashcan

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

'Some days I just feel so stuck in a rut that I wish I'd never been invented!'

Spring Training

"And that's General Ambrose T. Spangler. He died in the Great Mustache Fire of 1897."