Art Gallery Regular Mugs

Meet the artist

"To be honest Henry, I think I preferred your early brutalist potato period."

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

'The way the eyes follow you is uncanny.'

'It's a Joan Biro.'

"Me? How about you go closer and read the plaque!"

'I can make out the nude, but I don't see the submarine.'

'My interpretation is that it deals with the artist's utter frustration over the scarcity of remaining, reasonable equity values.'

Rodin's Cattle-Grid

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

Curators at the Louvre Museum would regret approving the installation of a work on a wall behind the Mona Lisa.

Jackson Pollock Signs A Rent Check

"I like it, honey ... it speaks to what a waste of time your MFA was."

Anyone would think it's Frieze week...

"I read 'Art News.'"

Art of Surviving

"Outré or simply bad?"

"I don't know art, but I know what I like!"

'A bad Picasso is still better than a good wall!'

"Hmmm...I wonder what the artist is trying to say...?"

"How did this comma get in with all the pieces?"

"Here the artist opted for a more impressionistic approach, because drawing a tree is hard."

In the art gallery

'Of course we can afford it, Reginald. Just get yourself fired as CEO!'

Understanding art.

'Abstract art is supposed to look that way.' (A rather smarthy attitude in an art gallery)

'I only buy art that I can understand.'

"While, yes, I could produce those strokes, I lack the context to position an image in the ongoing conversation of contemporary art as enclosed by capitalist forces."

"You've once said about your work, 'Meow, meow-meow, meeeow.' What did you mean by that?"

Tilted painting

Let's see...number 61...the painting's name is 'Calamity'.

Boy copying abstract artwork in an art gallery.

'It's a selfie.'

How Art Works.

"It's a cautionary tale about why we shouldn't cut arts funding in schools."