Art Theory Explorer Gifts

"Y a un truc bizarre."

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

College. Did you pick a major yet? I'm doing a double major in art and logic --- I want to draw my own conclusions!

"It's a postmodern mosaic, almost lyrical in its undercurrent." "My five-year-old will be happy to hear that."

Unfinished painting of a monster in a lake sits beside the lake with no painter in sight

"The raw material was all around me: That's how I got started as a sculptor..."

"The low-res JPEG of Dorian Gray"

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

"Swiping won't cut it sonny-boy, you have to physically walk to the next painting."

Kid doing cave paintings

Convenience.

Imagine

The Cremaster Cycle

'Sophie has discovered Gehry.'

Art Masters as Clowns pt. 2

"It has great depth, realized with such a unique economy of paint application... yet, there remains a curious aura of drivel I can't dismiss."

""Stop fidgeting. This is supposed to be a still-life."

'You'll never get the Burgundy stain out, so let's just color the whole thing.'

'It's like a piece of music, like Mozart or Beethoven.'

Mammoth Posing

"Are my breasts AI? No! My cartoonist would never use AI!"

Giacometti's less famous 'Man Walking Dog'

Lessons from the Blakely Art School (Now Defunct)

Maria Sibylla Merian

RBG, RGB, CMYK

Jackson Pollock makes a mistake: 'Guess I'll have to start over.'

Cover story: Picasso

Jackson Pollock's brief career with the highway department

"I can write, but I can't draw."

Page from 'How to Draw' by Albrecht Durer

Antiques

Oak Tree Painted in 1642

"Have we looked as though we know what it is, for long enough yet?"

'I can't tell the kitch from the schlock any more.'

(Gallerie Martorelli) (Art-Babble spoken here)