Mid-Morning Art Thread

Woman, I
Willem de Kooning

Here's the description from The Metropolitan Museum of Art:

The result of a protracted period of labor that involved the creation and destruction of many other possible versions, Woman, I appears to be suspended in a state of arrested development. The effect was deliberate: throughout his career, de Kooning prized experimentation, editing, and testing. To this end, he employed a range of techniques, from cutting, masking, and collaging to scraping, wiping, and blotting. Although he also produced individual sketches, the real sketching happened on his canvases. Yet this alone does not account for the unfinished quality of his finished painting. De Kooning’s purposefully fluid, undisciplined brushwork and his tendency to disregard contour lines produce a visual chaos that suggests incompletion, whether spatial, physical, or technical. "I refrain from finishing," the artist said in 1958. He elaborated in 1960: "I was never interested . . . [in] how to make a good painting. . . . I didn’t want to pin it down at all."

Well, I agree with de Kooning's quotation!

And here is a short discussion about it...and yes, it is more nonsense.

So why did I post this? Because it is art. I think it is self-indulgent crap, but there is a certain seriousness about it, and obviously the current art world is enamored of this sort of stuff, which I consider "Anti-Art."

Or, shArt.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Yuck

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 09:30 AM (v6JzV)

2 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2024 09:31 AM (qFD19)

3 Woman I? How the heck do you know you're a woman?!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 14, 2024 09:31 AM (0eaVi)

4 "Art".....covers a lot of ground.

Posted by: BignJames at June 14, 2024 09:31 AM (AwYPR)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

6 Dat's one fugly bitch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

7 Part of the Büstenhalter Altar??

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 14, 2024 09:32 AM (ZdexC)

8 This looks like a drawing out of a typical kindergarten in America.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 14, 2024 09:32 AM (8sMut)

9 I sense a lot of anger

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2024 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)

10 Good looking gal-would hang and bang!

Posted by: Lowered Expectations at June 14, 2024 09:32 AM (V5BDR)

11 "Art".....covers a lot of ground.
Posted by: BignJames at June 14, 2024 09:31 AM (AwYPR)

Tell him to get his ass on Ozempic!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 14, 2024 09:33 AM (0eaVi)

12 How long did Kooning have Pelosi sit for this outstanding portrait?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2024 09:33 AM (pUmP9)

13 IX

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 14, 2024 09:33 AM (8sMut)

14 "I was never interested . . . [in] how to make a good painting. . . . I didn’t want to pin it down at all."

Nailed it, then.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

15 Massive ta-tas, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 09:33 AM (v6JzV)

16 It's no Hunter Biden.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 14, 2024 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

17 It can be said, without reservation, that distorted paintings of women sitting on the loo are serious art works and must be presented as such.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at June 14, 2024 09:33 AM (MkuC5)

18 Alternate title: Joe Biden's looks at Jill

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 14, 2024 09:33 AM (FTjSO)

19 Yikes

Posted by: It's me donna at June 14, 2024 09:33 AM (Akjoo)

20 So why did I post this? Because it is art. I think it is self-indulgent crap, but there is a certain seriousness about it, and obviously the current art world is enamored of this sort of stuff, which I consider "Anti-Art."

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Or, shArt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

21 No like! Bad! Bad!

Posted by: Pete in Texas at June 14, 2024 09:34 AM (p9rFX)

22 It might be art but it's garbage

Posted by: Skip at June 14, 2024 09:34 AM (XF2fQ)

23 "Art".....covers a lot of ground.
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Almost a Heisman Trophy winner, fat!

Posted by: Art Biden at June 14, 2024 09:34 AM (ZdexC)

24 Would not hang or ...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 14, 2024 09:34 AM (hOUT3)

25 Woman in heels with a terrible overbite sitting on the shitter in a bra?

Posted by: JROD at June 14, 2024 09:34 AM (IlL6s)

26 Reminds one of the picture of the fat broad sitting on the bench with her gunt hanging below her moomoo.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

27 Busten!

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 14, 2024 09:34 AM (6gW4D)

28 I know I've seen this person before, when looking for photos to share...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 14, 2024 09:35 AM (JCZqz)

29 The result of a protracted period of labor that involved the creation and destruction of many other possible versions, Woman, I appears to be suspended in a state of arrested development.
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LOL. If only.

If art had entered a period of "arrested development" before the Great War, it would still be pretty good. It didn't. Artists and the art establishment (the cultural elite) decided to destroy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2024 09:35 AM (d04cU)

30 And no way am I asking it to state its preferred pronouns!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 14, 2024 09:35 AM (hOUT3)

31 Where's a Stop Oil protest when you need one?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

32 A horrorshow.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 14, 2024 09:35 AM (RIvkX)

33
On the upside: She's got big tits!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 14, 2024 09:35 AM (eDfFs)

34 Once again CBD manages to post a painting which causes the Horde to aggressively agree.
Well done CBD!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2024 09:36 AM (pUmP9)

35 She has a face like a corpse or an alien.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 14, 2024 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

36 Busten!
Posted by: Count de Monet at June 14, 2024 09:34 AM (6gW4D)

Basta!!!

Posted by: Michael Avanatti at June 14, 2024 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

37 Well, it was bound to happen.

Posted by: Eromero at June 14, 2024 09:36 AM (QtnU/)

38 Having recently been back to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art I have to agree with CBD's comments regarding this style of work. It's ugly and self absorbed.

The reason I make reference to CBMAA above is even among the finest collections there are some works that just defy talent/thought. Don't get me wrong the museum is world class and has some of the most beautiful works I've seen in the world. But it also has strange modern works. Beauty is in someone else's eye!

Posted by: Stinky at June 14, 2024 09:36 AM (GTF0J)

39 @17 CZ=FNG- ok, I wasn't the only one. It does look like she's on the crapper.

Posted by: JROD at June 14, 2024 09:36 AM (IlL6s)

40 At least he still used perspective in it as in the various square shapes.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 14, 2024 09:36 AM (ZdexC)

41 Woman! Woooooo-man!

This art is whacked.

I would not hang.

Artist is totally nuts!

Posted by: Charlie MacKenzie at June 14, 2024 09:36 AM (Wnv9h)

42 Artists and the art establishment (the cultural elite) decided to destroy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2024 09:35 AM (d04cU)

And they're not the only ones!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 14, 2024 09:37 AM (hOUT3)

43 She wants to date the nekkid lardass on the ottoman.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 09:37 AM (v6JzV)

44 Looks more like Kharis the Mummy, carrying a woman!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 14, 2024 09:37 AM (J2vNu)

45 This is the worst painting of Skeletor I've ever seen.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2024 09:38 AM (ibTVg)

46 I think it is self-indulgent crap, but there is a certain seriousness about it, and obviously the current art world is enamored of this sort of stuff, which I consider "Anti-Art."

And she's still more feminine than Lia Thomas or Dylan Mulvaney.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 14, 2024 09:38 AM (JCZqz)

47 What the hell??

Posted by: dantesed at June 14, 2024 09:38 AM (Oy/m2)

48 37 Well, it was bound to happen.
Posted by: Eromero at June 14, 2024 09:36 AM (QtnU/)

True dat!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 14, 2024 09:38 AM (hOUT3)

49
This painting could only be improved if she was sitting nekkid on an ottoman facing the other way.

Perhaps there's a series...

Posted by: naturalfake at June 14, 2024 09:38 AM (eDfFs)

50 "I was never interested . . . [in] how to make a good painting. . . . I didn’t want to pin it down at all."
++++
"Here we have an incompetent and lazy man who is indifferent to his own craft. He is a paragon of virtue and we should celebrate him."

I'd say something like, "they wouldn't let people who build houses get away with this kind of crap" - but then I remember that people like Frank Gehry exist.
http://tiny.cc/9xclyz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2024 09:38 AM (d04cU)

51 I sense a lot of anger
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2024

***
And some from the artist too

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 14, 2024 09:38 AM (J2vNu)

52 Ok looking at this I'm going to have to re-evaluate how much Hunter's paintings are worth

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2024 09:38 AM (ibTVg)

53 Not expecting this on Flag Day or Trump's birthday.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 14, 2024 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

54 there is a certain seriousness about it, and obviously the current art world is enamored of this sort of stuff, which I consider "Anti-Art."

The idea of modernism is anti-traditionalism. It's a rejection of western customs, & a critique of what gave Western civilization it's identity. Many of the modernist artists saw WWI as the final proof that Western society was decadent and needed to be rejected for something else. Technological advances, the rise of socialism/communism, & WWII also helped. Postmodernism is an even more radical erasure of Western identity.

Posted by: Kris at June 14, 2024 09:39 AM (4icOm)

55 She wants to date the nekkid lardass on the ottoman.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 09:37 AM (v6JzV)

She IS the naked lardass on the ottoman after transition.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

56 Or, shArt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

That's getting added to the post!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 14, 2024 09:39 AM (d9fT1)

57 I got quoted!

Winning.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

58 "I was never interested . . . [in] how to make a good painting. . . . I didn’t want to pin it down at all."

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So, it's a bad painting by her own measure, and people should disdain it thusly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 14, 2024 09:40 AM (GBKbO)

59 What a load of crap. I agree with CBD: it is art but that doesn't stop it from being pretentious shit. The linked 'analysis' could have been a Babylon Bee skit, the more so since they takes themselves so seriously.

If I want to see some delightful paintings from the 1950s, I'll look at some Andrew Wyeth. In the meantime I'm going to look at some John Constable landscapes to clear my mind.

Posted by: JTB at June 14, 2024 09:40 AM (zudum)

60 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. If anti-art, does the anti-100 comment rule apply?
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2024 09:40 AM (W/lyH)

61 SPONGE!!!

Nicely done.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 14, 2024 09:40 AM (Wnv9h)

62 Hoo boy. I remember studying this one in Art History. I remember I didn't like it then and I still don't like it. Ghastly death grin.

Posted by: Tuna at June 14, 2024 09:40 AM (VM3XY)

63 What the hell??

Posted by: dantesed at June 14, 2024 09:38 AM (Oy/m2)

That's what charles @lfg replied to my comment...just before he banned me.

Posted by: BignJames at June 14, 2024 09:40 AM (AwYPR)

64
That's getting added to the post!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 14, 2024 09:39 AM (d9fT1)

I'm honored.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

65 56 Or, shArt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

That's getting added to the post!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 14, 2024 09:39 AM (d9fT1)

========

I'm pretty sure it's from Queensryche, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 14, 2024 09:40 AM (GBKbO)

66 But it also has strange modern works. Beauty is in someone else's eye!

Posted by: Stinky at June 14, 2024 09:36 AM (GTF0J)

Throw lots of money at a museum and they will spend it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 14, 2024 09:41 AM (d9fT1)

67 Absolutely awful artwork!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 14, 2024 09:41 AM (XkYcA)

68 "I was never interested . . . [in] how to make a good painting. . . . I didn’t want to pin it down at all."
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Well, THAT'S pretty obvious.

This is the sort of painting that makes one nauseous after a good meal.

Ugh.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 14, 2024 09:41 AM (7fElN)

69 57 I got quoted!

Winning.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Nine more and you get upgraded from the aluminum foil to the real tinfoil membership!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 14, 2024 09:41 AM (hOUT3)

70 n

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 14, 2024 09:42 AM (hOUT3)

71 Woman >>> Karen

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 14, 2024 09:42 AM (UfH56)

72 68 Well, THAT'S pretty obvious.

This is the sort of painting that makes one nauseous after a good meal.

Ugh.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 14, 2024 09:41 AM (7fElN)

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"Ah, but it made you feel something, therefore it is not only art, but it is highly successful art."
-Art Curator

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 14, 2024 09:42 AM (GBKbO)

73
Nine more and you get upgraded from the aluminum foil to the real tinfoil membership!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS year in Corsicana - again! ~ at June 14, 2024 09:41 AM (hOUT3)

It's good to have goals.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

74 It's perfect for Pride month.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 14, 2024 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

75 Oh, FFS

are we being punished?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 14, 2024 09:42 AM (sJHOI)

76 Was very recently at an 'art exhibit' and while looking atsuch a piece declared, "I am not a student of art, but I know garbage when I see it, and that is garbage!"
I might have used the word "shit".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 14, 2024 09:43 AM (cOq4q)

77 Truth be told, I've always been a bit of a chubby chaser, and this ghoul can swallow my bone all she wants! Eeeee-heeee-heeeee-heeeee!!!!

Posted by: The Crypt Keeper at June 14, 2024 09:43 AM (JCZqz)

78 This one definitely has a dog in it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 14, 2024 09:43 AM (UfH56)

79 75 Oh, FFS

are we being punished?
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 14, 2024 09:42 AM (sJHOI)

=======

We know what we did.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 14, 2024 09:43 AM (GBKbO)

80 ========

I'm pretty sure it's from Queensryche, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 14, 2024 09:40 AM (GBKbO)

Operation: Museumcrime

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

81 Truly awful.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 14, 2024 09:43 AM (qZEuM)

82 It's an advertisement for the cross your heart wonder bra.

Duh

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2024 09:43 AM (a83VZ)

83 I'd like to see a picture of the model who sat for this.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2024 09:43 AM (Q4IgG)

84 are we being punished?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 14, 2024 09:42 AM (sJHOI)

educated

Posted by: BignJames at June 14, 2024 09:44 AM (AwYPR)

85 Looks like it came out of a vegetarian's ass.

Posted by: Joedward Poopshanks, King of DC at June 14, 2024 09:44 AM (tCwM5)

86 reverse engineered commie garbage

had the painter been conservative, this would never have seen the light of day

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 14, 2024 09:44 AM (sJHOI)

87 It's an advertisement for the cross your heart wonder bra.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2024 09:43 AM (a83VZ)
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That's a stretch.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 14, 2024 09:44 AM (UfH56)

88 84 are we being punished?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 14, 2024 09:42 AM (sJHOI)

Re-educated
Posted by: BignJames at June 14, 2024 09:44 AM (AwYPR)

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Suggested addendum.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 14, 2024 09:44 AM (GBKbO)

89 Would. Not.

Posted by: blaster at June 14, 2024 09:44 AM (IFNME)

90 With all the brushstrokes going in various directions, the painting has a lot of energy. Unfocused, but still energy. And it does appear that it or she is sitting on something, but it's unclear what that something is.

Would not hang OR bang.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 14, 2024 09:44 AM (J2vNu)

91 I'm honored.
Posted by: Sponge

Teacher's pet. Your bringing CBD a sous-vided apple every day finally paid off.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 09:44 AM (v6JzV)

92 83 I'd like to see a picture of the model who sat for this.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I've got you covered...after we break 100 comments.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 14, 2024 09:44 AM (JCZqz)

93 Remember the heady days of giant sunflowers on stairs and eerie lights from behind doors?

Those were good days...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 14, 2024 09:45 AM (GBKbO)

94 I'd like to see a picture of the model who sat for this.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2024 09:43 AM (Q4IgG)
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Well, she's either a Joe Mannix babe or an Admiral Ackbar whale. Doubt she's a FenelonSpoke lady...

Can't really tell from the portrait above...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 14, 2024 09:45 AM (7fElN)

95 Hillary, On The Shitter.

Would Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 14, 2024 09:45 AM (XRpj3)

96

Today's Art - a ckremil

A man once from Nantucket was there
Parts of every whose body where
Scrambled painted his legs
Shoes heeled high like vegan eggs
Out ear his stuck from his hair

Posted by: Muldoon at June 14, 2024 09:45 AM (uCfKO)

97 Truth be told, I've always been a bit of a chubby chaser, and this ghoul can swallow my bone all she wants! Eeeee-heeee-heeeee-heeeee!!!!
Posted by: The Crypt Keeper at June 14, 2024 09:43 AM (JCZqz)
++++
That is a *deeply* offensive term and we resent your usage of it. You need to be better. Calling us "C-Cs" is akin to using the "N" word. It's a pejorative. It's derogatory. We have newer, less-offensive language to describe our perfectly valid and acceptable mating preferences.

Read a book and get with the times. Quit being so insulting.

Posted by: Big Dame Hunters at June 14, 2024 09:45 AM (d04cU)

98 Looks like it came out of a vegetarian's ass.
Posted by: Joedward Poopshanks, King of DC at June 14, 2024 09:44 AM (tCwM5)
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Is that what they mean by "What happens in veg ass stays in veg ass"?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 14, 2024 09:45 AM (UfH56)

99 Hillary, On The Shitter.

Would Hang.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 14, 2024 09:45 AM (XRpj3)

...at the end of the rifle range.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

100 I'd like to see a picture of the model who sat for this.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I've got you covered...after we break 100 comments.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

This should be good.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 14, 2024 09:46 AM (qZEuM)

101 And actually, all of de Kooning's work which I have seen is equally ghastly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 14, 2024 09:46 AM (XkYcA)

102
Whe I saw this art, I said, "Mom!"
A fine joke according to some
But, Mom rose from the grave
And in reply she gave
Me, resounding slap like a bomb!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 14, 2024 09:46 AM (eDfFs)

103 "Ah, but it made you feel something, therefore it is not only art, but it is highly successful art."
-Art Curator
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max

Reminds me of my Art History professor's admonishment "Just because it's different doesn't mean it's not art."

Posted by: Tuna at June 14, 2024 09:46 AM (VM3XY)

104 This is the sort of painting that makes one nauseous after a good meal.

Ugh.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 14, 2024

***
Warning: Do not stare at this painting while smoking a strong cigar. You may become ill and waste the cigar!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 14, 2024 09:47 AM (J2vNu)

105 I've got you covered...after we break 100 comments.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

This should be good.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 14, 2024 09:46 AM (qZEuM)
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The side-by-side comparison will be instructive.

Or it will break the Internet.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 14, 2024 09:47 AM (7fElN)

106 Art is only art when it serves the purpose of connecting our souls to the Creator.

Everything else is either design or anti-art. This cartoonist, buffoonish attempt at first-grade refrigerator magnet drawing is anti-art and is pretentious to boot.

This is the kind of crap Hunter Biden paints, but at least Hunter finishes his tokens of money laundering to have a semblance of plausible credibility.

Posted by: Minuteman at June 14, 2024 09:47 AM (LaNzR)

107 Looks like the inspiration for a lot of "woman-face" performers.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 14, 2024 09:47 AM (XjtdB)

108 My step sister is wearing a smart dark blue dress with a pearl neckless......no, not the ZZ Top kind......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

109 Nice cans.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 14, 2024 09:47 AM (hY4dx)

110 If an art thief stole this...would anyone care?

Posted by: BignJames at June 14, 2024 09:47 AM (AwYPR)

111 Hillary, On The Shitter.

Would Hang.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Snort

Posted by: Tuna at June 14, 2024 09:48 AM (VM3XY)

112 At least her booba are in the right place.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at June 14, 2024 09:48 AM (2xB3Z)

113
Tres trebuchet.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 14, 2024 09:48 AM (Iynsv)

114 If an art thief stole this...would anyone care?
Posted by: BignJames at June 14, 2024 09:47 AM (AwYPR)
++++
Yes. I can assure you, yes.

Posted by: Lloyd's of London at June 14, 2024 09:48 AM (d04cU)

115 neckless
Posted by: Sponge

Your stepsister has no neck? Does she look like Ed Sullivan?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 09:48 AM (v6JzV)

116 He's from the same time period as Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollack. Uggh!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 14, 2024 09:49 AM (XkYcA)

117 Hah! MY horde-mind picked out Pelosi in the image and it was confirmed in only 12 comments. Excellent.

Posted by: irright at June 14, 2024 09:49 AM (1dyot)

118 Notice how the climate activists left this one alone?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 14, 2024 09:49 AM (hY4dx)

119 83 I'd like to see a picture of the model who sat for this.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

You asked for it.

https://tinyurl.com/2dxv7rzw

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 14, 2024 09:49 AM (JCZqz)

120
Your stepsister has no neck? Does she look like Ed Sullivan?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 09:48 AM (v6JzV)

Funny, but I used to say my mom played ping pong like Ed Sullivan......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

121 *sigh*

Whe = when

Not sure if I can blame this one on AC or fat fingers...

Oh, yeah....Stupid brain!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 14, 2024 09:50 AM (eDfFs)

122 I'd like to see a picture of the model who sat for this.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

You asked for it.

https://tinyurl.com/2dxv7rzw
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 14, 2024 09:49 AM (JCZqz)
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Nope. Canvas here is portrait, not landscape.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 14, 2024 09:50 AM (UfH56)

123 Bewbs

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 14, 2024 09:50 AM (EGSGm)

124 It's actually very interesting. There's a lot going on. I wouldn't want it in my home, but it is intriguing!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2024 09:50 AM (3th/7)

125 Damn.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 14, 2024 09:50 AM (qZEuM)

126 Today's Art - a ckremil

A man once from Nantucket was there
Parts of every whose body where
Scrambled painted his legs
Shoes heeled high like vegan eggs
Out ear his stuck from his hair
Posted by: Muldoon at June 14, 2024

Cool!
*snaps fingers*

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2024 09:50 AM (W/lyH)

127 It's an advertisement for the cross your heart wonder bra.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2024 09:43 AM (a83VZ)

Bhahahahaha.......

Posted by: Tuna at June 14, 2024 09:50 AM (VM3XY)

128 You asked for it.

https://tinyurl.com/2dxv7rzw
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 14, 2024 09:49 AM (JCZqz)
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Wow. just...wow....

Kooning nailed that portrait...and probably the model who posed for it...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 14, 2024 09:51 AM (7fElN)

129 My fear is that much like this artistic exploration into femininity, G_d has forsaken us with Joe Biden and Pope Francis.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 14, 2024 09:51 AM (dmXQN)

130 I had a Pez dispenser that looked just like this.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 14, 2024 09:51 AM (hY4dx)

131 This is "art" in the same way that two-year old in the sidebar is making "art."

So... not art.

If the artistry is in the description telling you *why* it's art, then it ain't art.

Posted by: red speck at June 14, 2024 09:51 AM (0Id0S)

132 My fear is that much like this artistic exploration into femininity, G_d has forsaken us with Joe Biden and Pope Francis.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 14, 2024 09:51 AM (dmXQN)

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:51 AM (Zz0t1)

133 You know who else was mentally ill and it showed in their paintings?

Posted by: Muldoon at June 14, 2024 09:52 AM (uCfKO)

134 You know who else was mentally ill and it showed in their paintings?
Posted by: Muldoon at June 14, 2024 09:52 AM (uCfKO)

George W. Bush?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)

135 It's an advertisement for the cross your heart wonder bra.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Have you gotten over your hostility to the guy from yesterday's art yet?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 09:53 AM (v6JzV)

136 Nope. Canvas here is portrait, not landscape.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs

It's a picture of the model, not the actual sitting! That's what the painting was for! Magenta hair and panties(?), both reflected in the painting. Sleeveless top and straps. Blobular form. Even darker colored streaks on the right and left....

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 14, 2024 09:53 AM (JCZqz)

137 Do De Kooning couldn't just tape a banana to the wall and call it a day?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 14, 2024 09:53 AM (hY4dx)

138 54 ... "The idea of modernism is anti-traditionalism. It's a rejection of western customs, & a critique of what gave Western civilization it's identity. Many of the modernist artists sAaw WWI as the final proof that Western society was decadent and needed to be rejected for something else. "

Good morning Kris,

The same historical and cultural matters that led to Dadaism and today's crap as having value also produced a Wyeth, a Tolkien, CS Lewis, and GK Chesterton. Proof that modernism didn't have to go the way of anti-Western but it became a sign of the self-styled intellectual elite, mostly urban, to admire it. I despise those people and I'm not too fond of the fools stupid enough to fall for their dreck.

Mini-rant over. Maybe.

Posted by: JTB at June 14, 2024 09:53 AM (zudum)

139 He's very much into lefty health stuff
So he's going semi vegan
----------
After my dad got prostate cancer in his 80s, vmom, and having read a book [I think it was Fats That Heal Fats That Kill], he decided to go semi-vegan to help in his treatment.

So all types of seafood and poultry, cheese, pasta, and all vegetables and he did alot of his cooking with olive oil [although he was 2nd generation Northern Italian so that wasn't out there] that wasn't too different than my mom's normal cooking.

He got through it okay, living into his 90s and with good treatment in the downtown, major, cancer hospital.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 14, 2024 09:53 AM (ZdexC)

140 My step sister is wearing a smart dark blue dress with a pearl neckless......no, not the ZZ Top kind......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:47 AM

The dress has no neck? I'm confused.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 14, 2024 09:54 AM (Wnv9h)

141 This is "art" in the same way that two-year old in the sidebar is making "art."

So... not art.

If the artistry is in the description telling you *why* it's art, then it ain't art.
Posted by: red speck at June 14, 2024 09:51 AM (0Id0S)

I do like the "I meant to paint crap" gambit.

I shall apply this in my everyday life from now on.

I predict outstanding results.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 14, 2024 09:54 AM (eDfFs)

142 Hey CBD put up something by Marc Chagal.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at June 14, 2024 09:54 AM (2xB3Z)

143 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 14, 2024 09:53 AM (JCZqz)
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A discerning eye!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 14, 2024 09:55 AM (UfH56)

144 Reminds me of my Art History professor's admonishment "Just because it's different doesn't mean it's not art."

A statement that I would agree with as long as the professor would agree that "Just because it's different doesn't mean that it *is* art." Do you think he would?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 14, 2024 09:55 AM (/y8xj)

145 When I was in college they had an "artist" come in and setup they awful metal abominations that were "art".

They had him come back the next year at which point he informed the college his "art" had been vandalized.

Looked the same to me...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2024 09:55 AM (ibTVg)

146 I'd like to see a picture of the model who sat for this.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

I've got you covered...after we break 100 comments.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

This should be good.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown
------------------
"Good" being relative. Although, to be honest, it could be any one of the half dozen Walmart shopper I saw the other day. 5 of which were in scooters and took up an entire aisle.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2024 09:55 AM (Q4IgG)

147 De Kooning’s purposefully fluid, undisciplined brushwork and his tendency to disregard contour lines produce a visual chaos that suggests incompletion, whether spatial, physical, or technical. "I refrain from finishing"

I had the same goal in elementary school, when I drew airplanes dropping bombs on tanks. Later, I moved on to boobs.

Why do we treat these people seriously?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2024 09:55 AM (xCA6C)

148 My first thought about this painting when the image popped on the screen in Art History was "This guy hates women."

I haven't changed my mind

Posted by: Tuna at June 14, 2024 09:56 AM (VM3XY)

149 Needs more LEDs.

Posted by: Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light at June 14, 2024 09:56 AM (hY4dx)

150 My step sister is wearing a smart dark blue dress with a pearl neckless......no, not the ZZ Top kind......

I bet she has legs and knows how to use them.

Posted by: Some ZZ topper at June 14, 2024 09:56 AM (ibTVg)

151
Impressions:

Mommy issues
What's that red-pink swirl around the figure's head?
The figure is wearing shoes.
This is something swirling around in Kooning's head. Not healthy, and from the quote, he's holding back something else, and it isn't pretty.

Posted by: mrp at June 14, 2024 09:56 AM (rj6Yv)

152 Another zombie attack. Is this some kinda meme?

Posted by: Outside of Life at June 14, 2024 09:56 AM (89Sog)

153 Devil with a Blue dress and no neck?

Posted by: dantesed at June 14, 2024 09:56 AM (Oy/m2)

154 It might be better with Grommit's head superimposed on it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 09:56 AM (v6JzV)

155 A statement that I would agree with as long as the professor would agree that "Just because it's different doesn't mean that it *is* art." Do you think he would?

He would not. He likes his little sinecure at the university. He doesn't like actually having to do anything to justify it.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2024 09:56 AM (xCA6C)

156 You know who had an art gallery devoted entirely to this stuff?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 14, 2024 09:57 AM (hY4dx)

157 @142 (for next time)

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at June 14, 2024 09:57 AM (2xB3Z)

158 143 Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 14, 2024 09:53 AM (JCZqz)
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A discerning eye!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

I take my work, and women, seriously! I didn't get to the rank of Admiral by half-assing it. Hell, half-assing it for some of my gals is more ass than you guys will ever have!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at June 14, 2024 09:57 AM (JCZqz)

159 are we being punished?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 14, 2024 09:42 AM (sJHOI)

You shouldn't have to ask...you know what you did!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 14, 2024 09:57 AM (d9fT1)

160 I'm not into "photorealistic" paintings in the first place, and doing one of Hillary Clinton doesn't help.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 14, 2024 09:57 AM (0FoWg)

161 I would have said the model is a Sontaran in drag.

Posted by: Joedward Poopshanks, King of DC at June 14, 2024 09:58 AM (tCwM5)

162 154 Wallace's head, I meant.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 09:58 AM (v6JzV)

163 Ugliness...Be Thou My Beauty.

He painted that mess after a long sleepless night, punctuated by booze, uppers and hugging the loo.

Posted by: Ju at June 14, 2024 09:58 AM (aTmM/)

164 The idea of modernism is anti-traditionalism. It's a rejection of western customs, & a critique of what gave Western civilization it's identity. Many of the modernist artists sAaw WWI as the final proof that Western society was decadent and needed to be rejected for something else. "

Good morning Kris,

The same historical and cultural matters that led to Dadaism and today's crap as having value also produced a Wyeth, a Tolkien, CS Lewis, and GK Chesterton. Proof that modernism didn't have to go the way of anti-Western but it became a sign of the self-styled intellectual elite, mostly urban, to admire it. I despise those people and I'm not too fond of the fools stupid enough to fall for their dreck.

Mini-rant over. Maybe.
Posted by: JTB
========

Bauhaus

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 14, 2024 09:58 AM (cOq4q)

165 I'm not into "photorealistic" paintings in the first place, and doing one of Hillary Clinton doesn't help.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 14, 2024 09:57 AM (0FoWg)
++++
LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 14, 2024 09:58 AM (d04cU)

166 I'm still not sleeping all that well.......

Necklace......damn brain.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

167 My sister lived in Russia for a time. She bought landscapes and figure drawings from students on the street that were beautiful, emotive, beautifully and carefully rendered -- for pennies on the dollar. I also have an aunt who struggled mightily as a university professor of fine art to defend classical beauty and artisanship against schlocky shit being passed off as anything more than what it is.

So I take umbrage at shit like this, and the equally bullshit description by the charlatan who passed it off. Just like politicians expecting us to believe lies told straight to our faces -- the real insult is not that they're doing it, but that they think we're so stupid as to believe it.

Posted by: red speck at June 14, 2024 09:58 AM (0Id0S)

168 142 Hey CBD put up something by Marc Chagal.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at June 14, 2024 09:54 AM (2xB3Z)

------------

Do you think CBD is your dancing monkey?

HE IS A CURATOR!!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 14, 2024 09:58 AM (hY4dx)

169
You shouldn't have to ask...you know what you did!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 14, 2024 09:57 AM (d9fT1)

But it was LAST SUMMER!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

170 de Kooning's body of work is tedious. I have looked at most of it and aside from a very few mildly interesting pieces I find it self-indulgent and repetitive.

Maybe he was working towards a goal, but I saw no growth in his work.

If I suffered, then you will too!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 14, 2024 09:59 AM (d9fT1)

171 A statement that I would agree with as long as the professor would agree that "Just because it's different doesn't mean that it *is* art." Do you think he would?
Posted by: Oddbob

I don't know. She might have. She did entertain all the negative comments from the class when we were studying the modern period with good grace. So who knows. Maybe.

Posted by: Tuna at June 14, 2024 10:00 AM (VM3XY)

172
If I suffered, then you will too!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 14, 2024 09:59 AM (d9fT1)

"...and Hell's coming with me!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)

173 Maybe he was working towards a goal, but I saw no growth in his work.

I think his goal was to have an easy life and see just how far he could push people before they said "this is crap".

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2024 10:00 AM (xCA6C)

174 How the he'll does this guy's "artwork" go for 8 digits at auction?

Posted by: tankdemon at June 14, 2024 10:00 AM (xY/so)

175 If I suffered, then you will too!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Show me on the doll where the maple syrup bottle touched you.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:01 AM (v6JzV)

176 How the he'll does this guy's "artwork" go for 8 digits at auction?
Posted by: tankdemon at June 14, 2024 10:00 AM (xY/so)

Money laundering.

See: Hunter Biden's Art Career

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)

177 Some of you people are so mean!!!

Posted by: Admiral R L Levine at June 14, 2024 10:01 AM (5h/8D)

178 You shouldn't have to ask...you know what you did!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 14, 2024 09:57 AM (d9fT1)

But it was LAST SUMMER!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:58 AM

IKWYDT.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 14, 2024 10:01 AM (Wnv9h)

179 One of my daughters has a degree in fine arts (in addition to a degree in computer science, so she can earn a living) and was told by her prof that her work was too representative. It needed more abstract stuff and political leftism.

And to think, I paid this nitwit's salary.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2024 10:02 AM (xCA6C)

180 Been lurking here for well over a year. And this is part of the magic of AoS. You can go from absolutely horrified, to laughing your a$$ off in 5 seconds:

Dat's one fugly bitch.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

Lol. Happy Friday!

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at June 14, 2024 10:02 AM (JCLJi)

181 Just watched that latest Biden clip.

He moves like he's already in Disney's hall of president's.

You could switch him out with the animatronic version and no one could tell the difference.

What a feeb.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 14, 2024 10:03 AM (OiAR7)

182 Just because it's jarring and ugly and the artist is a pretentious twat doesn't make it NOT art.

I think it is worth several minutes of pondering.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2024 10:03 AM (3th/7)

183 Been lurking here for well over a year. And this is part of the magic of AoS. You can go from absolutely horrified, to laughing your a$$ off in 5 seconds:

Dat's one fugly bitch.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

Lol. Happy Friday!
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at June 14, 2024 10:02 AM (JCLJi)

Today seems to be a banner day for me.

I should go shower.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)

184 I mean, it's no Picasso, but it shows just as much technique as a Picasso.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2024 10:03 AM (XV/Pl)

185 If a rejection of western customs, then why don't we see crap like this in non-western countries?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2024 10:03 AM (W/lyH)

186 I would say one thing about this work: it's better than a Pollock or a Rothko. Unlike those, you would notice if someone hung it upside down.

But that gets into design, not art. You can tell if an electrician likes Rothko by the way he installs electrical recepticles.

Posted by: Minuteman at June 14, 2024 10:03 AM (LaNzR)

187
Money laundering.

Yep.

Most pricey things have a somewhat objective value. But art?

So person X buys it for $1K and sells it to person Y for $1M. Person Y can argue it is worth that much to him...but its also a GREAT way to give Person X a million bucks because he did something off the books for you...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 14, 2024 10:04 AM (ibTVg)

188 Just watched that latest Biden clip.

He moves like he's already in Disney's hall of president's.

You could switch him out with the animatronic version and no one could tell the difference.

Wow, you nailed it.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2024 10:04 AM (xCA6C)

189 Today seems to be a banner day for me.

I should go shower.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 10:03 AM

And damn it, put on some pants while you're at it!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 14, 2024 10:04 AM (Wnv9h)

190 Dat's one fugly bitch.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

Lol. Happy Friday!
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question

Boy, Sponge is getting a lot of accolades today.

Hope it doesn't go to his head.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:04 AM (v6JzV)

191 I paint women but have been struggling for motivation lately. This abomination makes me want to paint one just to offset it.

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 10:04 AM (nZYm7)

192 The result of a protracted period of labor that involved the creation and destruction of many other possible versions, Woman, I appears to be suspended in a state of arrested development.

No evidence of any actual labor is revealed by the canvas.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 14, 2024 10:05 AM (xY/so)

193 "He elaborated in 1960: "I was never interested . . . [in] how to make a good painting. . . . I didn’t want to pin it down at all."

Well, he sure as hell 'succeeded' at not 'pinning it down'. And now I know precisely why I've never liked his work.

Posted by: Dr_No at June 14, 2024 10:05 AM (ayRl+)

194
Boy, Sponge is getting a lot of accolades today.

Hope it doesn't go to his head.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:04 AM (v6JzV)

I'm WAY too humble for that.

Now, go bake me a pie.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

195 185 >>If a rejection of western customs, then why don't we see crap like this in non-western countries?

Y'know what would be a *real* rejection of western customs? Trying to sell this shit in Istanbul or Afghanistan or Niger.

But for some reason, the "artist" keeps peddling in high-end western markets. Odd that.

Posted by: red speck at June 14, 2024 10:05 AM (0Id0S)

196 Critical Art Theory

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 10:06 AM (nZYm7)

197 How the he'll does this guy's "artwork" go for 8 digits at auction?
Posted by: tankdemon

How? Because some trust fund baby who didn't earn their money bought it.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2024 10:07 AM (qFD19)

198 I mean, it's no Picasso, but it shows just as much technique as a Picasso.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
========

Picasso could and did paint in many styles.
Just that he's best known for the weird shiite.

Nobody would recognize a portrait done in the style of dutch masters as a picasso even if it had his name on it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 14, 2024 10:07 AM (cOq4q)

199 Oh, my! Looks like a rather unattractive, bra wearing individual - possibly suffering constipation - seated upon a toilet.

MoMA - What is the purpose of the woman I by Willem de Kooning?
De Kooning once summarized the history of female representations as “the idol, the Venus, the nude.” In Woman, I, he both alludes to and subverts such conventions, while possibly referencing the long-held societal ambivalence between reverence for and fear of the feminine.

Shall pass hanging, but thank you. (Hope it's not a harbinger for the weekend.) 😬

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 14, 2024 10:08 AM (NFX2v)

200 Critical Art Theory

Critical Retrospective Art Postulate (CRAP)

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2024 10:08 AM (xCA6C)

201 de Kooning's body of work is tedious. I have looked at most of it

*********

Banging my head against a wall is also tedious, but I didn't have to keep doing it for long to know I should stop.

Maybe you are just a slow learner. ..

Posted by: Muldoon at June 14, 2024 10:08 AM (uCfKO)

202 I'd like to see a picture of the model who sat for this.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

See post #12.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2024 10:09 AM (pUmP9)

203 Show me on the doll where the maple syrup bottle touched you.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:01 AM (v6JzV)

Saw a bartender make an old fashioned using maple syrup on a cooking show last night...I would've tried it.

Posted by: BignJames at June 14, 2024 10:09 AM (AwYPR)

204 Been lurking here for well over a year. And this is part of the magic of AoS. You can go from absolutely horrified, to laughing your a$$ off in 5 seconds:

So, according to...

"Ah, but it made you feel something, therefore it is not only art, but it is highly successful art."
-Art Curator

...the HQ is highly successful art. Proven beyond a shadow of a doubt with geometric logic.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 14, 2024 10:09 AM (/y8xj)

205 I've been eye raped.

Pay me.

Posted by: E. Jean Carroll at June 14, 2024 10:10 AM (Q4IgG)

206 @198 I qctually like his blue period stuff, it's the cubist shart that I never liked.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at June 14, 2024 10:10 AM (2xB3Z)

207 @198

>>Nobody would recognize a portrait done in the style of dutch masters as a picasso even if it had his name on it.

Regardless of the style he painted in, Picasso was a mediocre artist at best.

The only thing you could possibly learn from him was how to fool the art world into thinking you're child like scribblings were somehow high art.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2024 10:10 AM (XV/Pl)

208 Critical Retrospective Art Postulate (CRAP)
Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2024 10:08 AM (xCA6C)

LOL didn't need the explanation but still LOL

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 10:10 AM (nZYm7)

209 SCOTUS rulings today. 3rd and final ruling: Bump Stocks are legal!

Link to opinion here:
https://tinyurl.com/53m89sar

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 14, 2024 10:11 AM (N39Ws)

210 Or, shArt.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

I'm quite the shartist, ask Jill.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 10:12 AM (FjlUt)

211 "Ah, but it made you feel something, therefore it is not only art, but it is highly successful art."
-Art Curator

I highly doubt revulsion is the reaction "artist" was going for.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2024 10:13 AM (qFD19)

212 I say that your sh'art comment was exactly on point and I thank you for sharing this useful terminology in distinguishing art from sh'art.

Posted by: whig at June 14, 2024 10:13 AM (/0X3E)

213 AP, 10 a.m. - WORLD NEWS
Putin offers truce if Ukraine exits Russian-claimed areas and drops NATO bid. Kyiv calls it ‘absurd’

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 14, 2024 10:13 AM (NFX2v)

214 209 SCOTUS rulings today. 3rd and final ruling: Bump Stocks are legal!

Link to opinion here:
https://tinyurl.com/53m89sar
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 14, 2024 10:11 AM (N39Ws)

The Thomas opinion explains that a semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock is not a "machinegun" because it does not fire more than one shot "by a single function of the trigger" as the statute requires.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 14, 2024 10:14 AM (N39Ws)

215 You know who else was mentally ill and it showed in their paintings?

*********

Bob Ross

Those trees weren't happy. They were maniacally cackling.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 14, 2024 10:14 AM (uCfKO)

216 205 I've been eye raped.

Pay me.
Posted by: E. Jean Carroll

Let's see...neurodivergent straight cis old white woman complaining about plus-sized, differently abled, probably trans/queer white woman. Carry the "during pride month"...

Yup. Carroll's a transphobic bigot. Take the rape with enthusiastic consent, or be canceled.

Posted by: LGBTQIA2S+ Commissar, doing oppression calculations at June 14, 2024 10:14 AM (JCZqz)

217 Would not paint on the side of my Free Candy van.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 14, 2024 10:14 AM (aD39U)

218 Looking at trash like this makes me appreciate the talent people like Charles Shulz and Bill Watterson.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 14, 2024 10:14 AM (xY/so)

219 @214

>>The Thomas opinion explains that a semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock is not a "machinegun" because it does not fire more than one shot "by a single function of the trigger" as the statute requires.

Ersatz Clarence Thomas: TEXTUALISM BITCHES, DO YOU SPEAK IT!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2024 10:15 AM (XV/Pl)

220 SCOTUS rulings today. 3rd and final ruling: Bump Stocks are legal!

Link to opinion here:
https://tinyurl.com/53m89sar
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

I honestly don't understand why there was even a question. By the wording of the law, they are legal.

One bullet fired for one trigger pull. Doesn't matter how far the trigger pull is. One pull = one bang.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2024 10:15 AM (qFD19)

221 Eye cleanser

https://tinyurl.com/dsf82rpa

The artist Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun self portrait

Posted by: Tuna at June 14, 2024 10:15 AM (VM3XY)

222 More on SCOTUS... (stolen from scotusblog.com)

Alito has a concurring opinion in which he says that he joins the court's opinion because there "is simply no other way to read the statutory language. There can be little doubt," he writes, "that the Congress that enacted" the law at issue here "would not have seen any material difference between a machinegun and a semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bumpstock. But the statutory text is clear, and we must follow it."

Alito suggests that Congress "can amend the law--and perhaps would have done so already if ATF had stuck with its earlier interpretation."

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 14, 2024 10:15 AM (N39Ws)

223 The Thomas opinion explains that a semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock is not a "machinegun" because it does not fire more than one shot "by a single function of the trigger" as the statute requires.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

An explanation so clear and obvious, you'd need at LEAST a PhD to fuck it up.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 14, 2024 10:15 AM (JCZqz)

224 Good morning, Hordelings!

Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2024 10:15 AM (RhGG0)

225
One bullet fired for one trigger pull. Doesn't matter how far the trigger pull is. One pull = one bang.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2024 10:15 AM (qFD19)

Legislation by kneejerk reaction.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)

226 The artist Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun self portrait

Posted by: Tuna

Won't load on my laptop.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:16 AM (v6JzV)

227 213. Continued - (In part)

Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Friday to “immediately” order a cease-fire in Ukraine and begin negotiations if Kyiv started withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 and renounced plans to join NATO. Ukraine responded by calling Putin’s proposal “manipulative” and “absurd.”

Putin’s remarks came as Switzerland prepared to host scores of world leaders -- but not from Moscow -- this weekend to try to map out first steps toward peace in Ukraine.

They also coincided with a meeting of leaders of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations in Italy and after the U.S. and Ukraine this week also signed a 10-year security agreement that Russian officials, including Putin, denounced as “null and void.”

Heh.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 14, 2024 10:16 AM (NFX2v)

228 told by her prof that her work was too representative. It needed more abstract stuff and political leftism.

He wasn't lying. If the point of the course of study was how to sell your work, and get ahead in a field dominated by "critics," he'd be spot on. The work of representational artists has been largely supplanted by people with degrees in computer science.

I have only five or six pieces on the wall done by actual painters. Everything else is a photograph, or a programmed image. There's just not much market for real art. We turned on it, and now we're angry about that, too.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 14, 2024 10:16 AM (zdLoL)

229 209 SCOTUS rulings today. 3rd and final ruling: Bump Stocks are legal!

Link to opinion here:
https://tinyurl.com/53m89sar
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 14, 2024 10:11 AM (N39Ws)

The Thomas opinion explains that a semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock is not a "machinegun" because it does not fire more than one shot "by a single function of the trigger" as the statute requires.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 14, 2024 10:14 AM (N39Ws)

At least that erases one of Trump's poorer decisions.

Do the former owners have a tort to recover their lost money?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 14, 2024 10:16 AM (aD39U)

230 I took a required art history class that focused, to my horror, on modern art. De Kooning et al would spout these word-salads that made me angry, when I tried to parse them. Not just that it was nonsense, but that it wasn't possible to hold any meaning beyond my ability. Somewhere in the middle of my final paper, I said that his English teacher should hang himself. It went without notice.

If you were to see a similar work in the museum, a little plaque would spout garbage about subverting expectations and framing the social-justice-something. Hitting the word count after glancing at the painting.

An artist's first instinct should be to not waste other people's time.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 14, 2024 10:17 AM (cf/0E)

231 @225

>>Legislation by kneejerk reaction.

Now we just need to get an NFA case in front of them so they can nullify the entire act.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2024 10:17 AM (XV/Pl)

232 Think I'd be looking for Woman II

Posted by: Weasel at June 14, 2024 10:17 AM (JwHpX)

233 Doooooooooof!

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2024 10:18 AM (DGlaL)

234 Good morning, Hordelings!
Posted by: Doof

Disco Doof!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:18 AM (v6JzV)

235 How many years did it take to overturn the bump stock ruling?

How quick was it originally implemented?

I see a bigger problem here even though it was, eventually, overturned.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2024 10:18 AM (Q4IgG)

236 They wouldn't have to fuck around with bump stocks if they had solved the Mandalay Bay massacre.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 14, 2024 10:18 AM (cf/0E)

237 Alito suggests that Congress "can amend the law--and perhaps would have done so already if ATF had stuck with its earlier interpretation."
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

How do they write the one shot per trigger pull law?
Like range rules? It's illegal to pull the trigger like really really fast, yo!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2024 10:19 AM (qFD19)

238 Ersatz Clarence Thomas: TEXTUALISM BITCHES, DO YOU SPEAK IT!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Lol...reminds me of a Slate article a read a week or two ago. It's great:

Originalism Is One Reason Why America Has Such a Gun Problem. One of the worst “originalist” decisions was about guns, back in 2008. This term, it might get even worse.

Congress and state legislatures have struggled to do much about these pervasive and deadly problems in large part because of our current Supreme Court—and in particular its past 16 years of radical pro-gun jurisprudence. Since 2008, the court has radically departed from centuries of case law on gun regulations and the Second Amendment, making it astoundingly difficult for lawmakers to implement even the most basic and commonsense of gun laws. The departure had to do with the rapid rise of originalism, the legal theory that claims to interpret the Constitution according to its “public meaning” at the time of ratification.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 14, 2024 10:19 AM (JCZqz)

239 I thought Sh'art was a Klingon in the Next Generation???

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 14, 2024 10:19 AM (ZdexC)

240 Doooooooooof!
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2024 10:18 AM (DGlaL)

Disco Doof!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:18 AM (v6JzV)

Hello to you both!!

Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2024 10:19 AM (RhGG0)

241 He wasn't lying. If the point of the course of study was how to sell your work, and get ahead in a field dominated by "critics," he'd be spot on. The work of representational artists has been largely supplanted by people with degrees in computer science.

I disagree. I have 8 pieces of "real" art on my walls, and not one of them is of the abstract, piece-of-trash variety. Yes, the critics and social climbers prefer trash, but I think most people don't.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2024 10:19 AM (xCA6C)

242 Now we just need to get an NFA case in front of them so they can nullify the entire act.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Hunter Biden.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2024 10:20 AM (qFD19)

243 Artist needs some counseling.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at June 14, 2024 10:20 AM (Z8Yh2)

244 235 How many years did it take to overturn the bump stock ruling?

How quick was it originally implemented?

I see a bigger problem here even though it was, eventually, overturned.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2024 10:18 AM (Q4IgG)

You bring up a good point. I think the US Govt. (left and right) recognizes that they can do whatever they want at the swish of a pen. It goes into effect immediately and it'll take years before the courts decide it was illegal. At that point the damage was done. And they Govt knows it. But they got their way from implementation until SCOTUS rules.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 14, 2024 10:20 AM (N39Ws)

245 "I refrain from finishing,"

That is why you watch some random bull plow your wife.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galf at June 14, 2024 10:21 AM (ufFY8)

246 Since 2008, the court has radically departed from centuries of case law on gun regulations and the Second Amendment, making it astoundingly difficult for lawmakers to implement even the most basic and commonsense of gun laws.

Centuries? Prior to 1968, you could buy guns thru the mail.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2024 10:21 AM (qFD19)

247 @236

>>They wouldn't have to fuck around with bump stocks if they had solved the Mandalay Bay massacre.

Fun Fact:

Las Vegas has more CCTV Security cameras and Entrance/Egress Card Readers per square mile than anyplace on earth and yet, everything malfunctioned like it was a Brooklyn Detention Center handing out Orange Blankets to High Value Prisoners.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2024 10:21 AM (XV/Pl)

248 Hello to you both!!
Posted by: Doof

Watch out for Sponge today. He's gotten some accolades today, and they're going to his head.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:22 AM (v6JzV)

249 Las Vegas has more CCTV Security cameras and Entrance/Egress Card Readers per square mile than anyplace on earth and yet, everything malfunctioned like it was a Brooklyn Detention Center handing out Orange Blankets to High Value Prisoners.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2024 10:21 AM (XV/Pl)

Maybe there was a barbell-shaped pulsating UFO hovering overtop at the time.

Posted by: spindrift at June 14, 2024 10:23 AM (OguvZ)

250 226 The artist Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun self portrait

Posted by: Tuna

Won't load on my laptop.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Sorry. Try this one

https://tinyurl.com/bdhczd6k

Posted by: Tuna at June 14, 2024 10:23 AM (VM3XY)

251 Craziness at the Karen Read trial. Apparently some juror got on camera by accident briefly, so Judge Bev ordered the cameras off, while she questions the jurors one by one.

This whole trial is insane.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galf at June 14, 2024 10:23 AM (ufFY8)

252 Arrived late today so I'm sure it's all already been said...

But I can see how this painting might lead one to ask what is a woman.

Posted by: She Hobbit at June 14, 2024 10:24 AM (ftFVW)

253 Weasel-san,
Will we be getting updates on the GT?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2024 10:24 AM (c4f7e)

254 https://tinyurl.com/bdhczd6k
Posted by: Tuna

Cute. Face kinda reminds me of Dana Delaney.

Unfortunately, she is fully clothed.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:24 AM (v6JzV)

255 Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 14, 2024 10:21 AM (XV/Pl)

Are you saying you don't trust your betters? You my friend are going on a list.

Hey, is it weird going from sounding a bit controversial like a crackpot to having most people agree with you on everything in the space of only a few years? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 10:26 AM (nZYm7)

256 centuries of case law on gun regulations and the Second Amendment,

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 14, 2024 10:19 AM (JCZqz)

Mike?...Mike Bellisailles...that you?

Posted by: BignJames at June 14, 2024 10:27 AM (AwYPR)

257 $20 same as in...uh, nevermind.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 10:27 AM (ynpvh)

258 If an art thief stole this...would anyone care?
Posted by: BignJames at June 14, 2024 09:47 AM (AwYPR)

Dramatic reenactment. Short, 1 minute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRaL9KHVbn0

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 14, 2024 10:27 AM (T7iTv)

259 Brrrr. 54 and cloudy this morning. Won't hit much more than 65 today.

Brrrrrrrr

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2024 10:27 AM (c4f7e)

260 I was gonna order a Thompson with a 50-round drum. But I kept my Sears and Roebuck catalog in the outhouse, and now there's only ten pages left.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 14, 2024 10:28 AM (cf/0E)

261 258 If an art thief stole this...would anyone care?
Posted by: BignJames at June 14, 2024 09:47 AM (AwYPR)

Dramatic reenactment. Short, 1 minute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRaL9KHVbn0

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 14, 2024 10:27 AM (T7iTv)

Why don't "protesters" throw soup at this thing? It might IMPROVE it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 10:29 AM (ynpvh)

262 Woman: a haiku

Model was rocky
Angular curves; colors just wrong
Woman is blocky

Posted by: She Hobbit at June 14, 2024 10:29 AM (ftFVW)

263 I thought this was amusing. Elon Musk criticized Assassin's Creed Shadows for having a black protagonist in ancient Japan. "Elon Musk suggested that diversity, equity, and inclusion will 'kill' Assassin's Creed Shadows, referencing the game's inclusion of an African samurai protagonist" and that asserted that "DEI kills art."
"Marc-Alexis Côté, the executive producer of the Assassin's Creed franchise, has subsequently labeled Musk's sentiment as unproductive. In a recent interview with Game File's Stephen Totilo, Côté said that the late May tweet made him emotional to the point that he decided to practice a session of mindfulness, a form of meditation meant to help explore one's feelings at a given point in time. 'For me, Elon, it's sad, he’s just feeding hatred,' the executive opined."

Well, first, I'm surprised Musk is aware of video games. Rather than playing Starfield, he can just jump into one of his spaceships. Second, Musk is right. The real problem isn't that a black is the protagonist. The real problem is that a black will be killing Asians and that won't end well. After all, the franchises name isn't Tickler's Creed.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 14, 2024 10:29 AM (L/fGl)

264 nurse I will gladly trade you 20 degrees of hot for the same in cool

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at June 14, 2024 10:29 AM (7iAr4)

265 238 "Since 2008, the court has radically departed from centuries of case law on gun regulations and the Second Amendment, making it astoundingly difficult for lawmakers to implement even the most basic and commonsense of gun laws."

What case law have they departed from? Site a few examples, if you can.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 14, 2024 10:30 AM (xY/so)

266 SCOTUS rulings today. 3rd and final ruling: Bump Stocks are legal!
Link to opinion here:
https://tinyurl.com/53m89sar
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 14, 2024 10:11 AM (N39Ws)

Good. More Please.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 14, 2024 10:30 AM (XRpj3)

267 Centuries? Prior to 1968, you could buy guns thru the mail.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2024 10:21 AM (qFD19)

and the local hardware store

Posted by: BignJames at June 14, 2024 10:30 AM (AwYPR)

268 Brrrrrrrr
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2024 10:27 AM (c4f7e)

There must be some Toros in the atmosphere.

Posted by: Kirsten Dunst at June 14, 2024 10:31 AM (OguvZ)

269 In a recent interview with Game File's Stephen Totilo, Côté said that the late May tweet made him emotional to the point that he decided to practice a session of mindfulness, a form of meditation meant to help explore one's feelings at a given point in time. 'For me, Elon, it's sad, he’s just feeding hatred,' the executive opined."

What. A. D***

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2024 10:31 AM (xCA6C)

270 Watch out for Sponge today. He's gotten some accolades today, and they're going to his head.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:22 AM (v6JzV)

Accolades for what?? Anything actually important??

Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2024 10:31 AM (RhGG0)

271 Hi Ben Had!

I'll ask JJ if he can program that into the weather machine.

Tomorrow not even getting out of the 50s.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2024 10:31 AM (74g9r)

272 Willem de Kooning wasn't gay, was he? Seems it would take a real woman-hater to "create" something that ugly and call it a woman...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 10:32 AM (ynpvh)

273 I'd rather this painting than a Munch painting.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2024 10:32 AM (52qkP)

274 Accolades for what?? Anything actually important??
Posted by: Doof

Check the end of CBD's writeup for the "art."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:32 AM (v6JzV)

275
Accolades for what?? Anything actually important??

Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2024 10:31 AM (RhGG0)

This is a rhetorical question, no?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 10:32 AM (Zz0t1)

276 What. A. D***
Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2024 10:31 AM (xCA6C)

He sounds more like a p***y.

Posted by: spindrift at June 14, 2024 10:33 AM (OguvZ)

277 I'll ask JJ if he can program that into the weather machine.

Tomorrow not even getting out of the 50s.
Posted by: nurse ratched

We can easily give you 40F anytime you need to trade.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2024 10:33 AM (pUmP9)

278 Tomorrow not even getting out of the 50s.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Wonderful. I'll take that over the 90s any day.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:33 AM (v6JzV)

279 High of 91 today.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 14, 2024 10:34 AM (qZEuM)

280 272 Willem de Kooning wasn't gay, was he? Seems it would take a real woman-hater to "create" something that ugly and call it a woman...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 10:32 AM (ynpvh)

Looked at his bio, apparently he was married. To a woman.

De Kooning met his wife, Elaine Fried, at the American Artists School in New York. She was 14 years his junior. Thus was to begin a lifelong partnership affected by alcoholism, lack of money, love affairs, quarrels and separations.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 10:34 AM (ynpvh)

281 SCOTUS rulings today. 3rd and final ruling: Bump Stocks are legal!

Morons in the Austin area can thank Mr. Cargill by patronizing his business at https://centraltexasgunworks.com/.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 14, 2024 10:34 AM (/y8xj)

282 Wonderful. I'll take that over the 90s any day.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:33 AM (v6JzV)

The only thing I don't like about 90 degree weather is the electric bill.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 10:34 AM (Zz0t1)

283 Tickler's Creed: The Polar Bear Hunt

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 14, 2024 10:34 AM (ZdexC)

284 Just watched that latest Biden clip.

He moves like he's already in Disney's hall of president's.

You could switch him out with the animatronic version and no one could tell the difference.

Saw a clip this morning where an MSM journalist was angrily asking John Kirby about if it was appropriate for Biden to ditch the Ukraine peace summit for a fundraiser with Julia Roberts and George Clooney. He answered that we're sending Kamala so it'll be fine. LOL.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2024 10:34 AM (2ocoG)

285 Looked at his bio, apparently he was married. To a woman.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Until he gifted her this portrait...

Posted by: She Hobbit at June 14, 2024 10:35 AM (ftFVW)

286 About his wife:

The couple had what was later called an open marriage; they both were casual about sex and about each other's affairs. Elaine had affairs with men who helped further Willem's career, such as Harold Rosenberg, a renowned art critic

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 10:35 AM (ynpvh)

287 Willem de Kooning wasn't gay, was he? Seems it would take a real woman-hater to "create" something that ugly and call it a woman...

Have you seen modern women? They're doing it to themselves.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2024 10:35 AM (2ocoG)

288 Côté said that the late May tweet made him emotional to the point that he decided to practice a session of mindfulness, a form of meditation meant to help explore one's feelings at a given point in time.
--------

I could change this idiot's life with one twenty minute conversation.

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 10:36 AM (nZYm7)

289
The couple had what was later called an open marriage; they both were casual about sex and about each other's affairs. Elaine had affairs with men who helped further Willem's career, such as Harold Rosenberg, a renowned art critic
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 10:35 AM (ynpvh)

Pussy laundering.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 10:36 AM (Zz0t1)

290 The couple had what was later called an open marriage; they both were casual about sex and about each other's affairs. Elaine had affairs with men who helped further Willem's career, such as Harold Rosenberg, a renowned art critic
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Starfuckers.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 14, 2024 10:36 AM (qZEuM)

291 Kooning is an example of what's wrong with the world today.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 14, 2024 10:36 AM (Iynsv)

292 Côté said that the late May tweet made him emotional to the point that he decided to practice a session of mindfulness, a form of meditation meant to help explore one's feelings at a given point in time.
--------

I could change this idiot's life with one twenty minute conversation.
Posted by: ..

Five minute ass whoopin

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2024 10:37 AM (qFD19)

293 He was 14 years older than her, and apparrently treated her like shit...

After meeting, Willem began to instruct her in drawing and painting. They painted in his loft at 143 West 21st Street, and he was known for his harsh criticism of her work, "sternly requiring that she draw and redraw a figure or still life and insisting on fine, accurate, clear linear definition supported by precisely modulated shading." He even destroyed many of her drawings, but this "impelled Elaine to strive for both precision and grace in her work".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 10:37 AM (ynpvh)

294 Rosenberg stole my move, Elaine!

Posted by: zombie Willem de Kooning at June 14, 2024 10:37 AM (ZdexC)

295

I'd hit it...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 14, 2024 10:37 AM (5hfjS)

296 Accolades for what?? Anything actually important??
Posted by: Doof

Check the end of CBD's writeup for the "art."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

This is a rhetorical question, no?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Sponge sharted? That's somehow noteworthy?? Used to be a higher bar around here. I am disappoint

Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2024 10:37 AM (RhGG0)

297 Will they put in black Nazi SS soldiers in Call of Duty?

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2024 10:38 AM (52qkP)

298 It's an advertisement for the cross your heart wonder bra.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 14, 2024 09:43 AM (a83VZ)

That was part of my initial reaction: Mummette in an ill-fitting cross-your-heart.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at June 14, 2024 10:38 AM (JCLJi)

299 Speaking of Bob Ross...

I saw an odd a little movie titled , "Paint" streaming on Hulu this week that's based around a character that's more or less Bob Ross.

It's a rather dry, low key sort of comedy. The kind you smile at and maybe chuckle but no big laughs.

I enjoyed it for what it was. And if you can plug into its vibe, you will too.

Not great but pretty good . Gets lousy reviews so not everyone's cup of cobalt blue.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 14, 2024 10:38 AM (74dzI)

300 "sternly requiring that she draw and redraw a figure or still life and insisting on fine, accurate, clear linear definition supported by precisely modulated shading."

Oh, like he did?/

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:38 AM (v6JzV)

301
Sponge sharted? That's somehow noteworthy?? Used to be a higher bar around here. I am disappoint
Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2024 10:37 AM (RhGG0)

I personify disappoint.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 10:39 AM (Zz0t1)

302 The only thing I don't like about 90 degree weather is the electric bill.
Posted by: Sponge

Jumped from $115 ladt month to $176 this month.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2024 10:39 AM (qFD19)

303 295

I'd hit it...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 14, 2024 10:37 AM (5hfjS)

That would be masturbation, Hillary.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 10:39 AM (ynpvh)

304 Jeez, I open up the blog and see this.

Honest to God, I thought someone dropped a tab of acid in my coffee.

Posted by: mpfs, ubi porci mali at June 14, 2024 10:39 AM (c4NPH)

305 304 Jeez, I open up the blog and see this.

Honest to God, I thought someone dropped a tab of acid in my coffee.

Posted by: mpfs, ubi porci mali at June 14, 2024 10:39 AM (c4NPH)

With a peyote chaser.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 10:40 AM (ynpvh)

306 Would hang.

Perfect for my basement storeroom, which has many of the same qualities of unfinished chaos as this painting, mostly because of the dusty boxes and rolled up rugs on the floor. In fact, from now on I'm calling it my "de Kooning room", or the DK.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 14, 2024 10:41 AM (wa8ai)

307
Jumped from $115 ladt month to $176 this month.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2024 10:39 AM (qFD19)

_________

If I had a monthly bill of $176 I'd be a happy man.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 14, 2024 10:41 AM (9ayMj)

308 Well, first, I'm surprised Musk is aware of video games. Rather than playing Starfield, he can just jump into one of his spaceships.

Starfield is terrible, but Starship had one mostly successful test so I don't think he's gonna jump in it quite yet. Still ahead of Boeing though.

Second, Musk is right. The real problem isn't that a black is the protagonist. The real problem is that a black will be killing Asians and that won't end well.

Well, no, they're inflating a black guy who was a samurai's manservant to be a Stunning And Brave Black Samurai.

Also, the game has two playable characters: the black samurai and a white woman. When you switch to the black guy, the music changes to hip-hop beats with random "Asian" chords over it. Seriously, I fell out of my chair laughing when I saw the promo footage.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2024 10:41 AM (2ocoG)

309 He succeeded.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at June 14, 2024 10:41 AM (ytSiK)

310 Sponge sharted? That's somehow noteworthy?? Used to be a higher bar around here. I am disappoint
Posted by: Doof at June 14, 2024 10:37 AM (RhGG0)

See also Comment 180.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:41 AM (v6JzV)

311 After meeting, Willem began to instruct her in drawing and painting. They painted in his loft at 143 West 21st Street, and he was known for his harsh criticism of her work, "sternly requiring that she draw and redraw a figure or still life and insisting on fine, accurate, clear linear definition supported by precisely modulated shading." He even destroyed many of her drawings, but this "impelled Elaine to strive for both precision and grace in her work".
Posted by: jim

He does all that and then puts forth the vomitus above.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2024 10:41 AM (qFD19)

312 Post cover on Biden abroad.

https://shorturl.at/iOjmv

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 14, 2024 10:42 AM (L/fGl)

313
Jumped from $115 ladt month to $176 this month.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2024 10:39 AM (qFD19)

My house has bad windows and isn't insulated very well, so it approaches $300 in the summers. I did clean the a-frame over the winter, so it might be a little better this year, but doubt it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)

314 Speaking of Bob Ross there is a painter who does the Bob Ross type instruction except his paintings are much much better.

You can look up his vids . Painting with Kevin .

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2024 10:42 AM (52qkP)

315
The only thing I don't like about 90 degree weather is the electric bill.
Posted by: Sponge

90F and a breeze and we don't run the AC.
I'm sure the current 18% humidity is a factor, last week I saw 6%.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2024 10:43 AM (pUmP9)

316 I could change this idiot's life with one twenty minute conversation.
Posted by: ...

I could do it with a leash and cat o nine.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 14, 2024 10:44 AM (4XwPj)

317 314 Speaking of Bob Ross there is a painter who does the Bob Ross type instruction except his paintings are much much better.

You can look up his vids . Painting with Kevin .

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2024 10:42 AM (52qkP)

One of the minions from "Despicable Me"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 10:44 AM (ynpvh)

318 Morning.

If you ask me it kinda looks like a robot.

Woman, I Robot.

And with that thought in mind I think I could consider hanging.

Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2024 10:44 AM (eJm5F)

319 I personify disappoint.
Posted by: Sponge

There you go, bragging again.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:44 AM (v6JzV)

320 U.S. Ministry of Truth
@USMiniTru

BREAKING: Karine Jean-Pierre confirms the President's "strange behavior" could be due to the type of embalming fluid used, refers press to White House taxidermy office.

2 hrs ago

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 14, 2024 10:45 AM (NFX2v)

321 You can look up his vids . Painting with Kevin .
Posted by: polynikes

What are the odds that he grew up watching and being influenced by Bob Ross?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * hanging out at the corner of Sanity and Madness at June 14, 2024 10:45 AM (+qILM)

322 316 I could change this idiot's life with one twenty minute conversation.
Posted by: ...

I could do it with a leash and cat o nine.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 14, 2024 10:44 AM (4Xw

Kinky

Posted by: It's me donna at June 14, 2024 10:45 AM (Akjoo)

323 My house has bad windows and isn't insulated very well, so it approaches $300 in the summers. I did clean the a-frame over the winter, so it might be a little better this year, but doubt it.
Posted by: Sponge

That's just one of the things they did well in building this house. The double pane windows and the foam insulation.

The foam insulation is probably the most important.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2024 10:45 AM (qFD19)

324 You can look up his vids . Painting with Kevin .

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2024 10:42 AM (52qkP)

One of the minions from "Despicable Me"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Kevin was the big terror bird from "Up."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:45 AM (v6JzV)

325 263 Well, first, I'm surprised Musk is aware of video games. Rather than playing Starfield, he can just jump into one of his spaceships. Second, Musk is right. The real problem isn't that a black is the protagonist. The real problem is that a black will be killing Asians and that won't end well. After all, the franchises name isn't Tickler's Creed.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 14, 2024 10:29 AM (L/fGl)

Musk got his start working on video games.

He worked for a company called Rocket Science Games in the early 90s.

Their best-known title is probably a little piece of FMV garbage known as "Loadstar : The Legend of Tully Bodine".

Posted by: XTC at June 14, 2024 10:45 AM (UnA8+)

326 But it was LAST SUMMER!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
------------------

SUDDENLY,

Posted by: Braenyard at June 14, 2024 10:45 AM (Iynsv)

327
If you ask me it kinda looks like a robot.

Woman, I Robot.

And with that thought in mind I think I could consider hanging.
Posted by: Robert

Now that you mention it, it does remind me of some of the S.F. cover art I've seen.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2024 10:46 AM (pUmP9)

328 Man, I don't like it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2024 10:46 AM (63Dwl)

329 I could do it with a leash and cat o nine.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 14, 2024 10:44 AM (4XwPj)

That would work on several of us.

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 10:46 AM (nZYm7)

330 Happy Birthday US Army!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 14, 2024 10:47 AM (TA92w)

331 90F and a breeze and we don't run the AC.
I'm sure the current 18% humidity is a factor, last week I saw 6%.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Currently 82. Humidity 61%. Wind gusts at 7 mph.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 14, 2024 10:47 AM (qFD19)

332 I could do it with a leash and cat o nine.
Posted by: Madamemayhem

A dom sighting!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2024 10:47 AM (pUmP9)

333 Happy Birthday US Army!!!
Posted by: Diogenes

And Donald Trump.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:48 AM (v6JzV)

334 222 Alito suggests that Congress "can amend the law--and perhaps would have done so already if ATF had stuck with its earlier interpretation."
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 14, 2024 10:15 AM (N39Ws)

========

How is Congress supposed to run against the government while approving all that the government does if it actually passes laws instead of enabling acts?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 14, 2024 10:48 AM (GBKbO)

335 329 I could do it with a leash and cat o nine.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 14, 2024 10:44 AM (4XwPj)

That would work on several of us.
Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 10:46 AM (nZYm7)

I am ready for my punishment.

Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2024 10:48 AM (eJm5F)

336
... still better looking than Lena Dunham or Trigglypuff

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 14, 2024 10:48 AM (xG4kz)

337 This is not good art.

IMO

Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2024 10:49 AM (/7KEl)

338 One of the minions from "Despicable Me"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I aspire to reach the moron level that you reside at.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * hanging out at the corner of Sanity and Madness at June 14, 2024 10:49 AM (+qILM)

339 324 You can look up his vids . Painting with Kevin .

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2024 10:42 AM (52qkP)

One of the minions from "Despicable Me"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Kevin was the big terror bird from "Up."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:45 AM (v6JzV)

http://tiny.cc/5rhlyz

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 10:49 AM (ynpvh)

340
Currently 82. Humidity 61%. Wind gusts at 7 mph.
Posted by: rickb223

Thanks I'll keep our 84F with 18%, wind 7.4 with gusts to 10.3mph

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 14, 2024 10:49 AM (pUmP9)

341 J.J.'s link to the American Thinker on Hunter using the Second Amendment on appeal is more than a hoot.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 14, 2024 10:49 AM (Iynsv)

342 One of the minions from "Despicable Me"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I've always been of the opinion that Pixar made that flick for the minions.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:50 AM (v6JzV)

343 No sir, I don't like it!

Posted by: Mr. Horse at June 14, 2024 10:51 AM (O7YUW)

344
I've always been of the opinion that Pixar made that flick for the minions.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:50 AM (v6JzV)

Then, proceeded to drive them into the ground.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 14, 2024 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

345 The implosion in academia is ongoing. BS "Studies" degrees hardest hit.

Minnesota university ends 30% of degrees, cuts staff

The school is also cutting faculty, staff, and administrative programs.

The cuts include ending minors in “Ethnic Studies,” “Chicano Studies,” and “Asian-Pacific American Studies.”

Music, hospitality, Spanish, and sociology undergraduate degrees will also be eliminated, according to KARE 11.

https://tinyurl.com/2s45abtz

Posted by: Archimedes at June 14, 2024 10:51 AM (xCA6C)

346 Currently: 86, 76% humidity, wind 2

Posted by: Braenyard at June 14, 2024 10:51 AM (Iynsv)

347 330 Happy Birthday US Army!!!
Posted by: Diogenes

Yes!

I had also overlooked that today is Flag Day.

(Looked at the Google logo and there's no indication of either. That's a shame.)

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 14, 2024 10:51 AM (NFX2v)

348 I've always been of the opinion that Pixar made that flick for the minions.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Not Pixar.

Posted by: She Hobbit at June 14, 2024 10:52 AM (ftFVW)

349 One of the minions from "Despicable Me"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I've always been of the opinion that Pixar made that flick for the minions.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:50 AM (v6JzV)

It's not a Pixar movie. I believe it's Illumination.

Posted by: Robert at June 14, 2024 10:52 AM (eJm5F)

350 344
I've always been of the opinion that Pixar made that flick for the minions.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:50 AM (v6JzV)

=======

Illumination, not PIXAR.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 14, 2024 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

351 The lawsuit alluded to by pixy has a super convenient list of sports streaming sites embedded in it. I'd care if I still paid attention to sports. But you have to admit it's funny.

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 10:52 AM (nZYm7)

352 The more snobby no-nothings have to explain the "art" in art, the more you know it's garbage. The fact that anyone ever took these child's finger paintings as serious art only shows how unserious the art world is.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 14, 2024 10:52 AM (iFTx/)

353 Regardless of the practical outcome of bump stocks being legal, there is victory in the outcome being driven by the black and white text of the law. The country is best served when you can read a law and know what it means rather than relying on unelected bureaucrats or judges examing their innermost feels about the law resulting in you being guilty of something that they dreamt up.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 14, 2024 10:52 AM (fs1hN)

354 It's not a Pixar movie. I believe it's Illumination.
Posted by: Robert

OK. But my point still stands.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:53 AM (v6JzV)

355 347 330 Happy Birthday US Army!!!
Posted by: Diogenes

Yes!

I had also overlooked that today is Flag Day.

(Looked at the Google logo and there's no indication of either. That's a shame.)

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 14, 2024 10:51 AM (NFX2v)

Time to put the flag upside down...
Now, I have to hang my flag sideways, so instead of putting it on it's right, I'll hang it on its left...
Will anybody notice?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 10:53 AM (ynpvh)

356 I don't think de Kooning liked us ladies very much...

Posted by: Beverly at June 14, 2024 10:53 AM (pHz3m)

357 I see here that you graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree that doesn't exist. ...interesting

Posted by: Braenyard at June 14, 2024 10:53 AM (Iynsv)

358 Bob Ross learned everything he knew from Bill Alexander. Alexander wasn’t the happiest when Ross made it big.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2024 10:53 AM (SHMXB)

359 Happy Birthday US Army!!!
-----
And Donald Trump.

The front page at bing.com has a nice image for Flag Day. The front page at google.com has... the word GOOGLE. But at least it's their usual rainbow colors and not extra faggy Pride Month rainbow colors.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 14, 2024 10:54 AM (/y8xj)

360 When does the court rule on the case that affects Trump?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 14, 2024 10:54 AM (4XwPj)

361 354 It's not a Pixar movie. I believe it's Illumination.
Posted by: Robert

OK. But my point still stands.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:53 AM (v6JzV)

========

It's my understanding that Illumination didn't intend on the minions being the focus of the original Despicable Me. They were more of an allowance to the director (who voices most of them, I think), and then they just ended up being the most popular thing in it.

Not Steve Carrel. I mean...that's how movie studios think: people love stars and then people love weird funny things more instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 14, 2024 10:54 AM (GBKbO)

362
"Now where we be able to learn how to exploit our Chicanicity?"

-- Chicano "Studies" denizens

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 14, 2024 10:54 AM (xG4kz)

363 There's an old, abandoned gas station that has a bunch of tires out front that are arranged and painted to look like Minions.

Faded, but you know what they are.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 14, 2024 10:54 AM (Q4IgG)

364 Illumination, not PIXAR.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at June 14, 2024 10:55 AM (Zz0t1)

365 The CIA was a BIG sponsor of this kind of stuff. Ostensibly it was to frustrate, confuse and isolate the Soviets but it's all part of a larger plan I'm sure.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at June 14, 2024 10:55 AM (PWI4f)

366 360 When does the court rule on the case that affects Trump?
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 14, 2024 10:54 AM (4XwPj)

========

They don't announce what order gets released when. It's just a guessing game, essentially.

However, the biggest cases tend to get released last in the term.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 14, 2024 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

367 It's my understanding that Illumination didn't intend on the minions being the focus of the original Despicable Me. They were more of an allowance to the director (who voices most of them, I think), and then they just ended up being the most popular thing in it.

Not Steve Carrel. I mean...that's how movie studios think: people love stars and then people love weird funny things more instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I loved how they made Gru's adversary look like Bill Gates.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:55 AM (v6JzV)

368 Bob Ross learned everything he knew from Bill Alexander. Alexander wasn’t the happiest when Ross made it big.
Posted by: polynikes

And Ross repeatedly gave the man credit for it during the run of the show.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 14, 2024 10:55 AM (4XwPj)

369 366 360 When does the court rule on the case that affects Trump?
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 14, 2024 10:54 AM (4XwPj)

========

They don't announce what order gets released when. It's just a guessing game, essentially.

However, the biggest cases tend to get released last in the term.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, obsessively pursuing evil with Friedkin while riding the Wasteland with Mad Max at June 14, 2024 10:55 AM (GBKbO)

These are not regular times. More like Diarrhea.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 10:56 AM (ynpvh)

370 I liked the German (???) "magic white" guy better than Ross. No one ever talks about him though. Didn't like when Ross came on instead. I was never attracted to faggy stuff.

Oh crap, was Josie and the Pussycats gay? Because I did like that.

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 10:56 AM (nZYm7)

371 Well, no, they're inflating a black guy who was a samurai's manservant to be a Stunning And Brave Black Samurai.

---

It's so much better. A gameplay preview was released that shows the player as an oversized black man smashing Japanese skulls with a spiked club. To a hip-hop mix.

I stand by my claim that Ubisoft is the Umbrella Corp of woke stupidity.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at June 14, 2024 10:56 AM (hCzfy)

372 The biggest, most controversial cases get announced as the Justices are on the way out the door for recess

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at June 14, 2024 10:57 AM (7iAr4)

373 362
"Now where we be able to learn how to exploit our Chicanicity?"

-- Chicano "Studies" denizens

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 14, 2024 10:54 AM (xG4kz)

Chicanery.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 10:57 AM (ynpvh)

374 Wait is that Bill Alexander??

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 10:57 AM (nZYm7)

375 Chicanx

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 10:58 AM (v6JzV)

376 The biggest, most controversial cases get announced as the Justices are on the way out the door for recess
Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at June 14, 2024 10:57 AM (7iAr4)

Roberts and the others jetting off after the Ocare bs was just insulting. I learned a lot that day about where we really are.

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 10:58 AM (nZYm7)

377 Bob Ross videos are excellent sleep aids

Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2024 10:58 AM (/7KEl)

378 Hmm... Isn't Kevin also the name of the zebra shrink that Candace speaks to in P&F?

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at June 14, 2024 10:58 AM (JCLJi)

379 Regardless of the practical outcome of bump stocks being legal, there is victory in the outcome being driven by the black and white text of the law.

And SCOTUS has the opportunity to drive the point home with the still-pending Loper Bright v. Raimondo decision. I hope they do but it's not a slam-dunk. As an aside, surely it's just coincidence that every time you hear the name "Raimondo" you know they're on the wrong side of an issue, right?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 14, 2024 10:59 AM (/y8xj)

380 What's that 'painting' worth?

Posted by: Live from Madhouse Farm at June 14, 2024 10:59 AM (Mkdz1)

381 >>>Music, hospitality, Spanish, and sociology undergraduate degrees will also be eliminated, according to KARE 11.

https://tinyurl.com/2s45abtz
Posted by: Archimedes
----------------------------

Sounds like not only the school but the country is going broke.
Hospitality is a big step into the hotel and restaurant business.
Music, well, it's Metal all the way, I guess.
Spanish, hmm, half the student body is bi-lingual?

Posted by: Braenyard at June 14, 2024 10:59 AM (Iynsv)

382 377 Bob Ross videos are excellent sleep aids

Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2024 10:58 AM (/7KEl)

Sleep AIDS sounds like the latest disease spread by this month's gay celebrations.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 10:59 AM (ynpvh)

383
Now, I have to hang my flag sideways, so instead of putting it on it's right, I'll hang it on its left...
Will anybody notice?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I would, but that's what cones from teaching proper U.S. Flag etiquette to Scouts.

An incorrect display of the flag on a wall in a movie pops out of the picture at me. I cannot unsee it. "Hoosiers" has at least one example of such.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 14, 2024 10:59 AM (xG4kz)

384 > "I was never interested . . . [in] how to make a good painting. . . "

dude you nailed it

Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2024 11:00 AM (/7KEl)

385 377 Bob Ross videos are excellent sleep aids

Posted by: Don Black at June 14, 2024 10:58 AM (/7KEl)

Kid Rock takes a nap every day to Ross vids.

Posted by: Live from Madhouse Farm at June 14, 2024 11:00 AM (Mkdz1)

386 WaPo addresses child sacrifice

Katy Faust
@Advo_Katy
Discovery of the first all male site of child sacrifice tested the remains of 100 children, half of whom were 3 to 6 years old. And this is what the lead researcher has to say about it.
Moral relativism is deadly.

. . . .
‘But we have to bear in mind that death is a completely different concept for Mesoamerican cultures. … Death is not seen as a bad thing. Of course, under our perspective, it's wrong. But back then, and according to their myths and their beliefs, what they were doing was considered correct, so we cannot judge what they did under our modern point of view.'

-
Now do slavery.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 14, 2024 11:00 AM (L/fGl)

387 And Ross repeatedly gave the man credit for it during the run of the show.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 14, 2024 10:55 AM (4XwPj

He acknowledged more after Alexander made a stink but Alexander thought he should have gotten more than just acknowledgment. I don’t think so but I understand.

Posted by: polynikes at June 14, 2024 11:00 AM (SHMXB)

388 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 14, 2024 11:00 AM (v6JzV)

389 nood rant

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 14, 2024 11:00 AM (UCRjB)

390 Wait. It's the other way around. The Zebra calls Candace Kevin. Never mind...

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at June 14, 2024 11:01 AM (JCLJi)

391 Noodus Liz Cheney (barf)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 14, 2024 11:01 AM (J2vNu)

392 383
Now, I have to hang my flag sideways, so instead of putting it on it's right, I'll hang it on its left...
Will anybody notice?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I would, but that's what cones from teaching proper U.S. Flag etiquette to Scouts.

An incorrect display of the flag on a wall in a movie pops out of the picture at me. I cannot unsee it. "Hoosiers" has at least one example of such.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 14, 2024 10:59 AM (xG4kz)

Only ones who'll notice are those who respect the flag and will either think I'm an idiot, on know what I'm saying. I'm in Kali, so I give it a 90% chance they'll think the former.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 14, 2024 11:02 AM (ynpvh)

393 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 14, 2024 11:00 AM (L/fGl)

I saw an even better quote about the child sacrifices last night.

Something about how the sacrifices were a special privilege for the victims.

These people really want to bring sexy back. You can tell.

Posted by: ... at June 14, 2024 11:02 AM (nZYm7)

394 If the Republicans don’t put Joe’s statements about Form 4473 in an ad this election season, they’re committing election malpractice.

There is another important and interesting element to this story. Hunter’s legal team has already signaled that it intends to invoke the 2nd Amendment on appeal.

That’s right: they’re going to argue the NRA position that Form 4473 violates the Constitution. I happen to agree with this argument. The one right recognized in the Bill of Rights that is not contingent on anything at all is the 2nd Amendment. Therefore, I believe Form 4473 is unconstitutional.

You don’t lose your right to free speech if you’re a drug addict. You don’t lose your right to freedom from searches and seizures. Why should you lose the right to defend yourself?
_American Thinker

Posted by: Braenyard at June 14, 2024 11:02 AM (Iynsv)

395 Will anybody notice?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Always a few. If you only reach a few, you've done well.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at June 14, 2024 11:02 AM (NFX2v)

396 328 Man, I don't like it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 14, 2024 10:46 AM (63Dwl)

Like it? Who the hell said you are supposed to like it? Are you one of those paleolithic heathens that still believes art is supposed to express beauty and exalt the human condition? That era, the era where the typical man lived a life of drudgery, exhausting himself in the fields or factory every day for barely sustenance wages and needed artificial elegance infused into his life just to give him hope of something better, is over. We are men of the new age, an age of wonder and ease, where all or whims dance at the tip of our fingers. Modern man needs art to tell him that, despite his almost constant leisure, the world is still a cold, unwelcoming place, and it is only right that he feel lonely and morose.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 14, 2024 11:03 AM (xY/so)

397 Dammit, all that effort only to be upstsged by a monkey.

Nood!

Posted by: tankdemon at June 14, 2024 11:04 AM (xY/so)

398 I saw an even better quote about the child sacrifices last night.
Something about how the sacrifices were a special privilege for the victims.
These people really want to bring sexy back. You can tell.
Posted by: ...
----------------------------------

That's what MS-13 is. They are devil worshipers.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 14, 2024 11:04 AM (Iynsv)

399 Modern art is essentially pretentious asses declaring some dreck- author their own personal empire’s new clothes tailor. They know it’s a grift, the grifter knows it’s a grift, we know it’s a grift. But for them, it’s a exclusive club membership to which you are not invited.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at June 14, 2024 11:05 AM (fiUiH)

400 critics and social climbers prefer trash, but I think most people don't.

Great to see you've got It All Figured Out, but if this were true even for a moment there would be representational art shows everywhere, and art schools teaching it. People who kind of like art buy prints of things they already like.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 14, 2024 11:10 AM (zdLoL)

401 It's so much better. A gameplay preview was released that shows the player as an oversized black man smashing Japanese skulls with a spiked club. To a hip-hop mix.

I stand by my claim that Ubisoft is the Umbrella Corp of woke stupidity.

Playing hip-hop for a black African is almost on the same scale of accidental racism as Disney's literally fatherless black children.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 14, 2024 11:11 AM (2ocoG)

402 BcLUegkI

Posted by: ImbPwJnXGFDyVK at June 14, 2024 11:19 AM (Umk5V)

403 BcLUegkI
Posted by: ImbPwJnXGFDyVK at June 14, 2024 11:19 AM (Umk5V)

You can say that again.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 14, 2024 11:19 AM (aD39U)

404 Where's the ottoman?

Posted by: look whats not at June 14, 2024 11:53 AM (nakGR)

405 Would hang the artist.

This is like a drag queen's idea of what a woman is.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at June 14, 2024 12:15 PM (w6EFb)

406 Maxine Waters without her mask on

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 14, 2024 04:24 PM (wGqjj)

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