A few takes on Mickey Mouse entering public domain. The Pinocchio one is particularly apropos.
Thanks to Boise Ed for this LOL from Tundra:
A few takes on Mickey Mouse entering public domain. The Pinocchio one is particularly apropos.
Thanks to Boise Ed for this LOL from Tundra:
Cleaning out old file storage services
An old favorite!
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Another old favorite
As so often with “Viivi and Wagner”, the thesis seems to be that men are pigs…
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What actual painting is this scene based on?
I think it’s a famous one I can’t bring to mind.
But I can’t help thinking of Poussin’s A Dance to the Music of Time (banner to this post), which in turn I’m aware of mostly from its use in Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time.
The Poussin has four figures (they could be the Seasons, or in Powell’s treatment the Kindly Ones, i.e. Furies), facing outward; while this scene has five, facing inward. The Poussin dates from 1634-1636, while this other scene with its contorted nudes surely is showing an influence of Impressionism or later.
Later: okay, I have been informed. It’s La Danse by Henri Matisse with versions from 1909 and 1910.
This entry was originally posted on 2020-Nov-13. We were reminded of it when reading Tom Falco’s newsletter today (corresponding to this post on his Tomversation blog), which reprints this panel along with pictures and commentary on his recent New York visit.
Tomversation sent in by Ollie. As a CIDU? Didn’t say! Is the joke like those set at modern art galleries, where a frame surrounds a stain on the wall, here turned into a window mistaken for an art object? Or is it just a fond reminder that one can tire of any quality of indoor view and welcome a glance out a window? [2022 comment: Falco’s title “The grass is always greener” would seem to fit better with that latter view.]
Next mystery: Is it meant to be somewhat realistic? So these would be a collection of posters on paper, mounted on somebody’s wall? No? An actual touring exhibition of masterpieces unlikely to be loaned out and then exhibited together? Nah.
Does it remind you of one of those paintings that show other paintings, maybe in a gallery setting? Like this one by Samuel F. B. Morse:
[2022 comment: The Picasso has been identified by commenter Olivier: “BTW, the Picasso is ‘portrait de femme au béret orange et col de fourrure (Marie-Thérèse)’, 1937.”]
And now, for something not quite completely different! Still in the realm of fine arts and popular suspicion, this OY from Cornered, sent by Olivier.
Wrong Hands can be cynical without being mean:
Oh, how those New Yorkers love themselves some art:
And The Far Side on “The Art of Conversation”. Sorry, just a link, not a copy.
https://www.thefarside.com/2020/10/30/2
And just be hush-hush about this, okay? —
Okay, there are clearly a lot of geezer-worthy references, and interlocking backstories. But no, I can’t make sense of most of the remarks.
This Far Side link for the snake crossing cartoon is not going to last very long.
Thanks to Kilby for sending this one, and saying “This is the best 4th-wall joke I’ve seen in quite a while:”
Paranoia strikes deep / Into your life it will creep
The great thing about this is that we understand a couple of important points about how those paintings were made.
This went right by my reading-the-comics-too-quickly eyes until I happened on it featured in Comic Strip of the Day column where he points out that the joke works only if the reader can supply the title.
Over on the Arlo Page.
I’m pretty sure this has already been a CIDU. If it was, I no longer remember the explanation.
It seems to me Addams put a lot of work into this, but forgot to include a discernible punchline.