Art

My kids are at the age where you constantly try to give them new experiences before they turn teenagers and clam up to anything Mom has to offer. I got them their first paint-by-number kits about a week ago. Princess loved it for a while, then she just forgot about it halfway through, the same as she did her last sewing project, her last gardening project, and her last household project. Gothgrrl attacked it, and would’ve finished hers if she hadn’t left the paint open overnight. It was totally dry and useless by morning. But the episode inspired me to create a post on art. I don’t want to get into the “Is it art?” argument, or the “I don’t know art, but I know what I like” scenario, I just want to have some fun with the concept of high art.

What Mona Lisa does after the Louvre closes for the night.

Combine traditional Japanese style art with modern subject matter and you get what Hisashi Tenmouya produces.

From a skeleton to nude to clothed woman, the drawing process as it unfolds. This is almost hypnotic.

The Museum of Bad Art.

Farad’s really awful art.

Create your own Jackson Pollack masterpiece. Better yet, let your kids play with it! (via I Quote Myself)

Can you distinguish famous artworks from fakes? Take the quiz! I scored 42%, meaning I know nothing about art.

You’ll see a lot of familiar works in the film “Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase.”

Vincent Van Gogh's Family Tree

(Thanks, Judy!)

His dizzy aunt
--Verti Gogh  

The brother who ate prunes
--Gotta Gogh

The brother who worked at a convenience store     --Stop n Gogh

The grandfather from Yugoslavia
--U Gogh

The cousin from Illinois
-- Chica Gogh

His magician uncle
--Where-diddy Gogh

His Mexican cousin
-- A mee Gogh

The nephew who drove a stage coach
--Wells-far Gogh

The constipated uncle
-- Cant Gogh

The ballroom dancing aunt
-- Tang Gogh

The bird lover uncle
--Flamin Gogh

His nephew psychoanalyst
-- E Gogh

The fruit loving cousin
--Man Gogh

An aunt who taught positive thinking
-- Way-to Gogh

The little bouncy nephew
-- Poe Gogh

A sister who loved disco
-- Go Gogh

And his niece who travels the country in a van
--Winnie Bay Gogh

And there ya Gogh!

SCULPTURE

(Thanks, Joe!)

Two elderly women were walking through a museum and got separated. When they ran into each other later, the first women said, "Gracious! Did you see that statue of the naked man back there?"

The second woman replied, "Yes, I was absolutely shocked. How can they display such a thing? The penis was so large!"

The first old lady blurted out, "And cold, too!"

For more art and fun, visit the Seven Deadly Sinners.

Thought for today: Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.  ~ Marc Chagall

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Comments

[mister anchovy]

years ago, there as a large sculpture on display in a Toronto park that featured among other things, a prominant penis.... it was in the news all the time. There were constant complaints to the city (cynical souls think they all came from a publicity seeking artist), and one day, somebody tried to hacksaw it off, but only got halfway through.....

[mister anchovy]

I took the fake vs real quiz on another blog a while back and did pretty well with it. The quiz really says, not very many people know very much about art in our society, and by that I mean, not very many people make looking at art a regular part of their lives. I think that is really too bad. We have been sold the idea that art is what Brittany Spears does or what U2 does. Me, I'm just a painter. Once I heard a guy on the radio telling me that all artists have to have a ring-tone marketing strategy, I decided not to use the A word any more.

[Raggedy]

Another good one! Thanks!
I left a wish for you at my place.
Have a wonderful day!
*^_^
(=':'=) hugs
(")_ (")Š from da Raggedy one

[jules]

Aside from sex, art is my next favorite activity.

[Skunkfeathers]

Doing a daily blog in entertaining fashion is an art unto itself ;-)

[Peter]

Loved Vincents family Miss C.

[ed bremson]

Mister Anchovy's first post above piqued my curiosity. It's funny, if you go to google and type in Toronto Penis, you get 2,360,000 results. That's as far as I got.

Anyway, thanks for a few chuckles this morning.

[Plutos the Bubbleman]

Hmmm Art.
Never did care much for Art.
,But then I was never a great fan of Paul Simon either,

[Bonanza Jellybean]

I'm a little disturbed that the Mona Lisa of the USA looks so much like Paris Hilton...

[Marti]

Hi Miss Cellania! Don't you just love those paint by numbers? That's the only way I can paint something that wouldn't end up on the Museum of Bad Art. LOL

[goldenlucy]

Hi Miss C.
I wish I had more time to wander through your last two posts. I still can't imagine how you do it---esp with 2 kids to keep an eye on! I really got a kick out of the grown-up celeb tots. Is there a site that has morphed current celebs into 85 year olds? I'd love to see that one! Or for something truly macabre, how about morphing the 85 year olds into 95 year olds? I'm not volunteering, you understand!

I'm going to leave now and go back to check out a few more of your links. BTW Miss C. did you see the dam beaver post on my site? "Until Manana" is the title. It posted a few posts down in the archive---2 days ago. My blog does what it damn well wants to but the beavers are hilarious.

Have a great week. I appreciate you!

[Mike Ashley]

You were right - that skeleton-to-nude-to clothed animated drawing was hypnotic. I found myself looking to see if you could reverse it....
...I liked the "fixed" Mona Lisa by USA.

Great post!

[Simply Coll]

As a kid, I loved those paint by number sets. My parent's rumpus room ( that's what we used to call the downstairs family room ) was adorned with many of them.

[Lara]

Hey, I 83% on the test (fake or not) yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!