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!"

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."

Tiny Visions

Rodin's Browser

Kid doing cave paintings

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

Convenience.

The Cremaster Cycle

Imagine

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

'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!"

Mammoth Posing

Giacometti's less famous 'Man Walking Dog'

Maria Sibylla Merian

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

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

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

'Cosmetic surgery.'

Antiques

Cover Design for the Savoy (No. 8)

(Gallerie Martorelli) (Art-Babble spoken here)

The Goal Post-Impressionists,

Strange man has a nose monocle.

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