Art Educator Gifts

'This composition was produced during the artist's Hay Fever period, and is simply entitled The Sneeze.'

"No, honey, I’m pretty sure she doesn’t have the measles."

"Is it me, or is Jasper Johns a genius?" "Über-genius, Larry. Über!"

"This one's called 'Incarceration.'"

'Aren't any of these interactive?'

"You're Tom Holbein the face painter, I thought you was Hans..."

A Puppet Named Juan

The Art Student.

'On your mark. Get set. Create!'

“She’s in her abstract expressionism phase.”

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

"We're bringing the arts and sciences together here by giving crayons to mice."

"You've got a long, long road ahead of you, young man."

The Artist

Paul Klee

'I'm in my Blue period.'

'It's my homage to Picasso.' (Snowman is all mixed up with eyes and nose in odd places)

"I don't think I can express what I have to say in just colored paper and glue."

Instructional guide to scribbling

"What the %@!!* is that?!" "Is that a leg? Wait—no, it's an arm. Wait—what?" "The frame is nice." "Whatever it is, it makes me miss Bob Ross." "Gasp!" "The intentionally lost Caravaggio"

"Mother, I think I'm good enough to exhibit on the living room walls now."

"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."

Children's artwork exhibition.

Van Gogh was starting to run out of gift ideas.

"I'm afraid you were drawn too big and not centered on the page."

'Hi, Miss Henderson, we did collage in class today. Can you drive me home?'

"I would like a tube of lemon yellow, cadmium red, cobalt blue, ivory, black, and zinc white, a sixteen-by-twenty canvas, a couple of brushes, and that book 'Painting in Oils'."

"In the beginning, God created, like, 300 concept sketches..."

'Projectile painting.'

Misunderstood artist

Schools of Art - A Rough Guide.

It's a call from Tate modern.

"You're my Mona Lisa."

"You're welcome."

It isn't widely known that Michelangelo was the first in a long line of cartoonists to buck the family tradition.