That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 06, 2025

/// Here, The Masterpiece makes its debut

for art critics to judge and review.

One squats close to the frame.

Tries to make out the name

of the man it’s attributed to.

/// If the painter is someone who’s famed,

by this critic his works are acclaimed.

With an artist unknown,

then the critical tone

will be harsh and adversely inflamed.

Sir, this isn’t a video game. Tea bagging is not an acceptable form of criticism.

The artist, sensing that the critics are displeased with his latest work, bends over to receive his punishment.

“It’s painted by someone called AI.”

Watch out for the barking spiders!

Victor added a new dimension to all of the ancient city street scenes, He can switch to a vegetarian diet and do barn scenes, too.

Aloysius simply could not believe this ridiculous painting, a supposed masterpiece. To not include a French Poodle in with with other breeds on “Poker Game” was beyond outrageous!

Nothing makes me laugh more than farting.

Kate McKinnon

“Fine fellows, allow me to display for you this new dance technique I have dubbed ‘twerking’.”

Edwin explaining the artistic differences in various styles of moon

They call it a masterpiece:/

A goddess, half-nekkid – in Greece../

But it’s just an excuse/

For “artistic abuse”/

Without having to face the police..

He is not the culprit.

In fact, you could say he’s been framed.

Pausing to Heave a Havana

Fart jokes…the highest form of humor.

“Is that a smiley face down there?”

Upon closer inspection, it became apparent that the ‘stunning work of art’ was only a framed painter’s drop cloth.

DID hie “rip” one, or straight up shart..?

“You think that’s art? One day THIS will be considered art!”

The Masterpiece: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

Le Chef d’Oeuvre "Albert Guillaume" Christies 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Brave search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and click its currently first webpage link for info about this roughly jumbo envelope size, oil on panel painting. LOT ESSAY has a description. The November 1, 2024, strip has the latest by the artist mentioned in that (if you don’t recognize the name). Once the webpage shows an image, I’ll post it to WC. If you need to see a webpage with an image, click a link that starts with "Le chef", or has a thumbnail image of this to the right of the link in the search result list. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3438 (January 6, 2025) 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 .jpg from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 5 works by him have been used here, the March 26, 2024, strip being the prior.

Henrí du Gros Cul, the noted critic for Le Parisien was baffled. Why was there a little tag at the bottom of this Italian masterpiece that read: Made in China?

If it’s Rubens, then why is it signed/

With two dragons intertwined ?/

And surrounding it all/

Is thousand mile wall ../

Or am I just losing my mind?

In the matter of gases intestinal/

(Be they ever so infinitesimal)/

In a space that’s enclosed/

They are quickly exposed/

Yea unto the seventeenth decimal.

What can one say ? ….. when you gotta go, you gotta go.

the artist needed a new color named dark oak brown and jasper was willing to donate.

A masterpiece or two or three

The name written as clear as day

And you could hear someone say

Who the heck is Banksy?

Is that a banana taped to it? Ummm…. genius!

Pay no heed to this fool Albert, he’s just talking out his @rse!

All four of the Klimt family pretended not to notice.