It ‘s such an old cliche: I don’t know art, but I know what I like. Sure, you feel that way yourself. There’s really no reason to argue about what is art and what is not, because if enough people like it, it becomes art, whether you agree or not (and whether any talent is involved or not). But that doesn’t mean we can’t make fun of it anyway. 

My Perfect Post Award for the month of January  goes to Old Guy’s
Treehouse for the story of The Little Red Shoes. He was inspired to write this when he saw the picture of an antique glass knicknack shaped like shoes. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it... it’s a work of art. You can see all the Perfect Post Awards for January at Petroville and at Suburban Turmoil. And you can sign up to give your own award next month!



Men on Art

The Museum of Bad Art. (via b3ta)

25 Secrets of the Mona Lisa.

Watch a digital artist at work.

Chopper Reed evaluates art. Audio NSFW.

Who painted this picture, and artist or an ape? I only scored 67% on this quiz! (via the Presurfer)

What would those classical sculptures look like in color? Surprise, many of them were probably in color when they were unveiled! Listverse has photos of ten classical statues as they are, and as they have been recreated in color. (via Cynical-C)

B3ta Photoshop Challenge: Extending Album Art.

The drawing of a face that survived all these years. Be sure to read all three parts of this, because it just gets better as you go.

Da Vinci’s The Last Supper has been rendered as a 16 billion pixel digital image. It may take a while to load, but you can really zoom in on this one!

Evolution of an Artist.

16 Post-It Note art projects. It’s amazing what you can do with too much free time and a closet of office supplies.

THEFT

(via Phil’s Phun)
A thief in Paris planned to steal some paintings from the Louvre. After careful planning, he got past security, stole the paintings and made it safely to his van. However, he was captured only two blocks away when his van ran out of gas.

When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and the make such an obvious error, he replied,

"Monsieur, that is the reason I stole the paintings. I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh."

(And you thought I didn't have De Gaulle to tell you this one!)

Well, I figured I have nothing Toulouse.

Three Black Men

At the National Art Gallery in Dublin, a husband and wife were staring at a portrait that had them completely confused. The painting depicted three black men totally naked sitting on a park bench. Two of the figures had black willies, but the one in the middle had a pink willie.

The curator of the gallery realized that they were having trouble interpreting the painting and offered his assessment.
He went on for over half an hour explaining how it depicted the sexual emasculation of black men in a predominately white, patriarchal society. 'In fact,' he pointed out, 'some serious critics believe that the pink willie also reflects the cultural and sociological oppression experienced by gay men in contemporary society.'

After the curator left, an Irishman, approached the couple and said, 'Would you like to know what the painting is really about?'

'Now why would you claim to be more of an expert than the curator of the gallery?' asked the couple.

'Because I'm the guy who painted it,' he replied. 'In fact, there are no black men depicted at all! They're just three Irish coal miners. The guy in the middle went home for lunch.'

Previously at Miss Cellania: Art, Art Class, and Art Show.

Thought for today: I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. -Vincent van Gogh

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