Art World Skeptics Mugs

'I just don't understand... We hate the same movies, books, art, music, friends and relatives, and we agree that the world's a hopeless mess. With all that in common, why is our marriage falling apart?'

"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"

"No - you’re right. It’s dumb."

'Nice, but it needs more angst.'

'It was restored just last year, and changed from an abstract painting to a landscape.'

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

El Greco

"Now on view: Old paintings by dead white men through whenever…"

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

Rodins rotten juggler

"Apparently he only uses fugitive colours."

"Is this 'pollocks'."

Tilted painting

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

"This painting, we're sorry to say, is pure trash."

"That's the fire alarm. . ."

'Turned out non-figurative again...'

Guillaume Apollinaire

Don't give up the hunting and gathering.

'I'm really a painter and decorator - I only do this to pay the bills.'

"I'm expected to write a good review of this stuff... So here I go with some confusing art rhetoric."

'It's my latest invention. I call it 'Picture in a picture.'

"He was famed for his work in Pantomime"

'Forget the artwork who made the martinis?!'

'... And this is one of the artist's early pieces.'

" 'Perceptual and kinetic art have an intertwined development that cannot be totally disentangled; nevertheless perceptual, optical, or "virtual" movement—which always exists in tension with factual immobility—is an experience of a different order.' "

"It's one of my early works from before I could afford paint."

"You've hung this picture upside down!!"

Ezra Pound

Early Cartoonists.

The Wonder Of It All

Pretentious man reads Culture supplement, saying: 'I don't know much about art but I know what to pretend to like.'

'Hmmm...I think I know what he's saying here. Sometimes we manage to break through the walls that hold us back, only to find...another wall! Yes! I get it!'

King Charles III's coronation

A bomber dropping paintings "Art Bombing"