Avant-garde Academic Gifts

Blend Schools

"Welcome to Off-Off-Off Broadway."

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

'Projectile painting.'

Jazz is Invented

"Well, yes, it's not what you would call a practical nest, but my wife insisted on using an architect..."

'It's cutting edge theatre.'

"I condensed my painting to the pure essence of the message. What helps me a lot is the fact that I've got nothing to say at all."

"Avant-garde jazz hands"

A Footnote - Self Portrait of Beardsley, Bound to the God of Nature

When at a loss for words Colin would often resort to communicating through the medium of contemporary dance.

'I don't know whether to put it in for the Turner Prize or go for the Poet Laureate.'

'How can they call it modern art when it's 100 year's old?'

The Abstract, The Modernist, The Avant-Guard.

Samuel Beckett

"I can deal with the conceptual art and electronic music, but what are these hors d'oeuvres supposed to be."

'I saw an offbeat play the other night. No one took off their clothes.'

"I'm outside the fancy dress shop...."

Metropolitan Art Center current exhibit: Father of the Finger-In-Your-Eye School of Modern Art.

"Please turn on your cell phones."

Richard Wagner's other Ring Cycle.

James Joyce

Francis Picabia

'As a hairdresser, I must say you take it a bit far.'

Cover Design for the Savoy (No. 8)

Artist uses connect-the-dots canvas to paint nude model.

The Bland Leading the Bland

"No sitting on the art, ma'am."

Igor Stravinsky

Samuel Beckett

Ave Atque Vale- Illustrates Beardsley's Translation of Carmen CI of Catullus

Pants Uglifier!

A retriever comes back to a hunter with Brancusi's 'Bird in Space'."

"Once upon a time there were these three little pigs. There was a neurotic little pig, a psychotic little pig, and a normal little pig . . . ."

The Death of Pierrot