Artistic Interpretations Gifts

Garden of Eden: Director's Cut

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.

'It's called 'Oh Bugger It!' if you must know!'

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

The Artist

"Well....I could've done this!"

Theatre Masks and Butts

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

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

"Look, it's my word balloon."

Frederic Chopin

"No - you’re right. It’s dumb."

"Avant-garde jazz hands"

Jimi Hendrix.

Dolores is so avant garde.

"Caricatures $20"

Imagine

F&E Stables. Horses Boarded. The owner of this horse is a huge fan of the late musician, "Prince." That explains the purple reins.

"Someday we will escape from this prison."

"He's left out the staples"

"The subaqueous qualities of the biomorphic forms spacially undermine the larger metaphorical resonance of the mark-making."

Sign on wall of spacious empty hall of museum: 'Air & Space Exhibit'

'The artist did this one during his 'I've got no idea' - period.'

The Eclectic Chair

It finally happened, models so thin they only consist of few molecules.

Muhammad Dali...

"He's not an enfant terrible, he's just terrible."

When I was in jail, I passed the time by writing my autobiography. I took certain liberties with some of the characters. For instance, you appear in the later chapters

"I don't do spells. I'm a wizard at deciphering rap lyrics."

'Well, there goes the neighbourhood.'

"I guess life does imitate art."

"Ok, let's sneak up on Mr. Canvas and see if we can make a good impression."

"Edwin says Cole Porter is overrated."

Interpretive Dental Hygiene

"The notion that *CRUNCH* architectural *CRUNCH CRUNCH* forms can *CRUNCH* express anything may *CRUNCH* seem difficult *CRUNCH* to *CRUNCH CRUNCH* grasp at *CRUNCH* all,"