Avante Garde Enthusiast Mugs

The Ascension of the Rose of Lima

"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

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

'Projectile painting.'

"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"

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

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.

The Cremaster Cycle

Yoko Ono

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

"Outré or simply bad?"

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

Gianni Tatti's Dining-Room Chair

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

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

The Abstract, The Modernist, The Avant-Guard.

Samuel Beckett

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

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

"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.'

"You like it? It’s from the MoMA Store!"

"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."

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

Igor Stravinsky

The Bland Leading the Bland

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

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

Francis Picabia