That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 27, 2023

/// Frederikke is Hammershøi’s mother.

His and Whistler’s resemble each other. /

They both sat in profile

for a very long while,

barely breathing. (They thought they would smother.)

/// Still, the differences here are apparent.

Just one painter’s behavior’s aberrant.

Both moms hated the sight / of her “bad side”— (the right).

Vilhelm hated his feminine parent.

/// And they don’t just face opposite ways.

There’s the question of where they can gaze.

At framed art on the wall—

or at nothing at all.

Frederikke is bored to malaise.

Vilhelm wanted to make his mother a nice portrait for her birthday, but he was too scared to look her in the face after admitting that he had dropped out of medical school in order to be an artist.

Vilhelm was such a terrible artist that no one would put his works on their walls.

The Dutch version… something got lost in the translation.

Someday there will be a tv on that wall…

/// With the poison still fresh in her tummy,

Norma sat in her chair like a dummy.

In a few years her flesh,

with no way to stay fresh,

dries ‘til Mrs. Bates looks like a mummy.

Vilhelm’s mom after she unknowingly had some of his hash brownies.

In Mad magazine many years ago, in this kind of thing, captions in classic work, this one read after three identical panels, “That Ed McMahon just cracks me up”

After spending the last 20 years hand-weaving her top range 35 feet cinema screen, Edith couldn’t wait for movies to be invented.

According to the article presented in Wikipedia, “Hammershøi’s melancholic vision has now regained its place in the public consciousness. He is now one of the best-known artists in Scandinavia.” The dour Dane as exemplified in “Hamlet”?

There is a BBC Documentary about Vilhelm Hammershøi’ available to view on YouTube:

“In 2005, Hammershøi’s life and oeuvre was featured in a BBC television documentary, Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershoi, with the British comedian and writer Michael Palin. In the programme, Palin, fascinated by Hammershøi, whose pictures he conceived as having a distinct enigmatic coolness and distance about them, sets out to unlock the mysteries and find out about the background of Hammershøi. Palin, wanting to know of his inspirations and the reason for these mystical pictures, started his search in Hayward Gallery in London, goes to Amsterdam and finally to Copenhagen…”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fhQmS8KJeUo

His mom still remembers his promise of an HD TV “as soon as he makes it big”. Every time he visits, she pulls her chair over and stares at the spot it would go.

The other profile view of Whistler’s Mother’s mugshot.

Still better than watching The View

Granny was appalled by the stripper, but, it would be rude to leave in the middle of his performance.

No one dared asked Margarite what she was thinking. For years she had been obsessed with how to catch fleas and squeeze their tiny little heads off with a pair of tweezers. She really was best left sitting alone.

Compare this classic Dutch painting with yesterday’s French one. Is it any wonder people prefer to vacation in France?

See! I told you that even adults were given Time-Outs and had to sit for hours in the Naughty Chair staring at a blank wall.

Apparently, no one puts baby in a corner, but people do put Whistler’s Mother in a corner

Is that a weather vane attached to her head? No wonder Whistler’s Mother keeps getting turned around.

“No, I won’t and you can’t make me!”

“One day my son will finally put in that picture window.”

“Whistler’s mother, the return trip.”She

She had planned on a week of biking/

But the temperatures were spiking/

Her ride was a beast !/

Now she’s headed back east//

California was not to her liking !

From: @Call me Ishmael

https://www.gocomics.com/profile/2288699

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“Whistler’s mother, the return trip.”

She had planned on a week of biking/

But the temperatures were spiking/

Her ride was a beast !/

Now she’s headed back east//

California was not to her liking !

Before the advent of television

I see some very weird images and a frame in the light gray section. I think she sees them too.

Freja was devastated upon being told her stegt flæsk wasn’t crispy enough.

Nuthin is as gleeful as a Danish Mom “ennui-ful” in the mor-or-ornin…

Sitting with her face in the draft of the air conditioning and in the dark was the only way Mabel was going to keep cool in the heat.

Hamlet’s mother Gertrude, a melancholy Dane.

She: Be picky my parents said…be picky…now look at me never a bride…just an oldbroad!

Sorry, check your map…

Whistler through the looking glass; a bit darker and facing the wrong direction.

To a person in the Southern Hemisphere, Whistler’s mom’s left/right orientation would be the same but she’d appear upside-down.

“You’re going to sit there and think about what you did, Granma! That delivery guy was so embarrassed! Where did you get that thong, anyway?”

Frederikke Hammershøi, the artist’s mother: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"File:Frederikke Hammershøi by Vilhelm Hammershøi.jpg" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first File: found for info and links that point to more info about this roughly square, B3 paper size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3069 (January 27, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by this artist have been used here, the October 8, 2018, strip bring the prior. The artist info URLs in my comment there, plus a few more, are pointed to by my blog comment.

right facing granny, is looking wrong way. that is why she will never lose her virginity. the men are in the card room.

Vilhelm was going to paint a nude today. His plans changed when his mother volunteered to sit in, after the young model didn’t show up.

I am going to stare until I can figure out what the cat was staring at.

Gaslighter’s eye chart.