Gallery Wanderer Gifts

"By 'genius' do they mean the artist or the marketing department?"

'Sure she's got a nice smile, but is it art?'

'... And this is Picasso's: The bad plastic surgeon. '

The Big Picture

'I should know who he is! His work is in every gallery I go into.'

'So what exactly are you trying to say.'

'This was bestowed by a famous philanthropist before he made his fortune.'

"This is one of the artist's unstarted works."

Eye test art

Painting of boat is tilted with water on bottom.

'I call it 'No Admittance'.'

Nude model looking at her portrait.

A sign that reads "ART...and plenty of it!" hangs above the entrance to a museum.

'Your best bet would be to go right up Madison Ave., and turn at this corner on to 89th St.'

'Hmmm...I think I know what he's saying here. Sometimes we manage to break through the walls that hold us back, only to find...another wall! Yes! I get it!'

Modern Art.

'By the time the artist has started work on these still life he had sadly lipped into chronic alcoholism.'

'I have one just like this at home. My five year old son painted it.'

Artist and art critic

'I may not know much about art. But, I don't know what I like either.'

Pop art.

"His paintings are better than they look."

Painting of hand pointing,

Oil Slick in a Painting.

"I'd better read the official view before I form an opinion."

bird interprets modern art

'My agent said that a title like 'The Condition of my Soul in the Face of the Misery on Earth' would sell better than 'Smashed Fly on Canvas'.'

Art Gallery.

The Librarian.

"The more I lean, the more I like it."

"An overload -- even this is beginning to look like Kitsch."

An artist gazing longingly at at painting of an artist selling a painting

Abstract portrait art.

"The price of one million five is the highest price ever paid for a Blanchard."

"Thrilling news, sweetie! The National Gallery's entire collection of Velázquez is now attributed to you."