Visual Art Explorer Gifts

'Look Larry, this one has air coming out of it!'

"You've got a long, long road ahead of you, young man."

"According to mom the answers are all in this book!" "Too bad there's no pictures at which to look!"

Unfinished painting of a monster in a lake sits beside the lake with no painter in sight

"What the %@!!* is that?!" "Is that a leg? Wait—no, it's an arm. Wait—what?" "The frame is nice." "Whatever it is, it makes me miss Bob Ross." "Gasp!" "The intentionally lost Caravaggio"

"Personally, I'm a doer."

"The low-res JPEG of Dorian Gray"

Kid doing cave paintings

Rodin's Browser

Convenience.

"Swiping won't cut it sonny-boy, you have to physically walk to the next painting."

"Perhaps in my next life I'll be a jpeg."

The Cremaster Cycle

'Sophie has discovered Gehry.'

"Definitive." "Compelling." "Persuasive." "Upside down."

"It has great depth, realized with such a unique economy of paint application... yet, there remains a curious aura of drivel I can't dismiss."

""Stop fidgeting. This is supposed to be a still-life."

'It's like a piece of music, like Mozart or Beethoven.'

Mammoth Posing

"Are my breasts AI? No! My cartoonist would never use AI!"

Maria Sibylla Merian

Giacometti's less famous 'Man Walking Dog'

'I'm tracing my relatives.'

Cover story: Picasso

Jackson Pollock's brief career with the highway department

Cover Design for the Savoy (No. 8)

"I can write, but I can't draw."

The Goal Post-Impressionists,

"Y a un truc bizarre."

'Of course this makes your old masters al look now so very contrived.'

'Cosmetic surgery.'

'I can't tell the kitch from the schlock any more.'

"Have we looked as though we know what it is, for long enough yet?"

(Gallerie Martorelli) (Art-Babble spoken here)

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