Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for September 16, 2021

I know art when I see it, and I hate most of it as bullcrap.

Looks like a nightmare I had as a kid, for a week non stop.

I had no idea that pink snow bunnies would even want to walk up and bite someone on the azz.

Abstract art is what you bring to it.

Probably upside down…

Mommy, mommy he said A$$!!! I can’t because it will probably be taken out. Double pink bunny standard.

Oh, yeah! I remember seeing this printed in The Washington Post, in its first run, years and years ago!

Ha! Berkeley Breathed really plagiarized himself with this one!

Okay, okay. Let’s say that this is just a “remake” of an old The Academia Waltz strip, back from… 1978 apparently?

https://www.gocomics.com/academiawaltz/2015/08/15

Of course BB has the right to “remake” his strips if he thinks it’s appropriate. I’m not judging, just reporting.

I love how the artist’s name changed from Harlod Gookman to Pablo Gookman. I wonder why.

From the look on the kid’s face and the hand gesture, that is not the title of the piece.

How many artists, writers and musicians put things into their works they never intended to that had to be revealed, even to them, by their critics?

“Feeling” an image? What kind of mental illness and substance ingestion DO these types of artists engage in?

Art is in “The Eye of the Beholder” but I this particular case “The Eye of the Nut”.

Why did they call them “Madonna wanna-bees?” Why didn’t they call them “pre-Madonnas?”

Gookman clearly needed glasses…and not full of some liquid fortification! (Seems he’s already dipped into that!)

I have said it before and I’ll say it again: “Abstract Impressionism” was a scam; sick of the dealers, buyers, and critics who built their self- and public images on pretending to understand whatever any artist was saying with their work, Pollack, Klee, et al decided to see how ridiculous they could get before one of the posers said “I don’t get it”.

The answer turned out to be “sillier than they could get”.

Would you recognize it

If it came to you in the middle of the night?

Would you recognize it

If it jumped up and bit you in the ass?

- Schnier / Garvey / Derhak

Some people should not be allowed to teach art history. Some works should not be incorporated into the canon of art just because their makers pronounced them “art”….

Why is the teacher speaking with a German accent? Or is that only in my head :)