Visual Arts Explorer Gifts

1909 - Pablo Picasso started wearing contact lenses but would never admit they were useless.

"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!"

"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"

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

"Personally, I'm a doer."

Tiny Visions

Convenience.

Kid doing cave paintings

Rodin's Browser

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

Imagine

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

The Cremaster Cycle

'Sophie has discovered Gehry.'

"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."

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

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

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

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

Giacometti's less famous 'Man Walking Dog'

Maria Sibylla Merian

Mammoth Posing

After three days the curator decided it was probably upside down.

Cover story: Picasso

Jackson Pollock's brief career with the highway department

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

Cover Design for the Savoy (No. 8)

Antiques

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

'Cosmetic surgery.'

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

The Goal Post-Impressionists,

(Gallerie Martorelli) (Art-Babble spoken here)

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