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Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 22, 2013
Transcript:
Pig: Hey, Goat, this is my friend, Paul. He's a painter currently making six figures. Goat: Wow. It's so nice to hear of an artist earning good money. Paul: Who said I earn money? Pig: Goat makes a lot of assumptions. Paul: Yeah, who wants to buy these crappy paintings?
cdgar over 11 years ago
I’ll pass on those paintings.
Sherlock Watson over 11 years ago
So, Paul is the guy who paints those stick figures on the rear windows of douchebags’ SUVs?
hariseldon59 over 11 years ago
I wonder if Paul’s related to Stephan.
margueritem over 11 years ago
Certainly not I.
Bilan over 11 years ago
If it works for soup cans, why not figures?
edclectic over 11 years ago
Put ’em on ebay…people will buy anything there.
Templo S.U.D. over 11 years ago
The only artists I know of by the name of Paul are Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso.
Sisyphos over 11 years ago
The bare-footed bonneted bohemian probably could be a big success with the right backing and publicity. Talent has very little correlation with commercial success (think of the late Thomas Kinkade,“painter of light”).
WCLamb over 11 years ago
Since when does an “artist” wear a pith helmet? Is Paul headed for the jungle? (And no, we don’t need any jokes about pithing in his hat!)
I always thought artists were partial to berets.
WCLamb over 11 years ago
@Sisyphos – some of us like Kinkade’s works — both the subject matter and his techniques, even though he was a phony and a crook in life. Can’t say he had no talent.
lisapaloma13 over 11 years ago
The hat reminded me of Diego Rivera.
SkyFisher over 11 years ago
Based on the lower right painting, Pig’s friend could get a job painting all those clumsy silhouettes that show us danger is present. They keep falling off ladders, getting their hands sliced up, electrocuted, decapitated, making me laugh, etc…
me over 11 years ago
He doesn’t figure they will sell.
corzak over 11 years ago
I think Paul’s art is sublime. The reductive quality of his figures and the iconicity of the purity of line, visually and conceptually activates the inherent overspecificity.(Pretentious art quote courtesy of the Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator)
CyberSpaceDrifter over 11 years ago
I see most stick figures on minivans and foreign made cross-over vehicles, certainly not on trucks. And, to me the genesis of stick figures was Keith Haring who once had his studio in an old church in my hometown …
Packratjohn Premium Member over 11 years ago
Totally misunderstood, what he said was that the painter is making “stix figures”.
Enoki over 11 years ago
He’s definitely not a misunderstood artist… Seems more like a completely ignored artist.
Number Three over 11 years ago
The stick figure pictures look cute!
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