Artefact Aficionado Gifts

'... And some primitive cultures, believed that 'the great ones' modelled us from clay.'

"... No, when I say, 'you must let go of the past' I mean you must return that vase to the museum you took it from."

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."

"I call it 'Bad Dog.'"

Paul Klee

Doctor examining Easter Island statue.

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

'The way the eyes follow you is uncanny.'

"Will you have a Sphinx?"

"Welcome to Off-Off-Off Broadway."

"Sign my yearbook?"

(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.'

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

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."

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

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

"Mr. Right!"

'They look more up to date than the ones in your tool-box.'

Baroque Peacock

Painting taking root...

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

Spring Training

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

"The derby is better. That makes you look like Abraham Lincoln."

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