Avant-garde Lover Gifts

Audience Participation

"All pointed objects, madam."

"Welcome to Off-Off-Off Broadway."

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

Turd - 'It's one of a kind.'

Jazz is Invented

'Projectile painting.'

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

"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."

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

"We tried 'Baby Mozart,' but he prefers 'Baby John Cage.'"

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

The Cremaster Cycle

'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 revolution that hit Hollywood hardest:The Thinking Pictures."

'Isn't that wonderful? We both suffer from intellectual angst!'

The Abstract, The Modernist, The Avant-Guard.

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

"The audience is really classy tonight, they are throwing quail eggs."

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

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

"Please turn on your cell phones."

"Tonight the part normally played by the audience will be played by actors playing the part of the audience."

Richard Wagner's other Ring Cycle.

James Joyce

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

'God, it's a relief to get away from that exhibition of a bit.'

Cover Design for the Savoy (No. 8)

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

The Bland Leading the Bland

Igor Stravinsky

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