That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 03, 2025

/// This Male Nude in the Studio of

Bonat posed on a platform above

the male art students there,

who knew where not to stare

lest they get teased they’re “falling in love.”

“Happy Birthday….Mr President…”

To lovers of “buns of steel”/

And to fellows who titter and squeal/

And to lads of the ilk/

Who wear undies of silk/

This painting is bound to appeal.

Having recently been made redundant, Giles tries a new way to make a crust, predating “The Full Monty” by a whole century.

After the scene where he exposed himself to thousands of his followers in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, Brian Cohen found steady employment working as an artist’s model.

A little background. It’s been said that the song became a hit, in part, because it was being danced to in strip clubs

In art class, it’s ok to stare.

But if at the end of the day your canvas is blank, there might be some awkward questions.

“If any of you need the bathroom it’s that way.”

Millie decided to a model. Quite a surprise for the class since they were painting a bowl of fruit.

Robert – paying the price for talking in class.

“I didn’t know you were Jewish…”

Norris Ferris was suspicious of the hotel’s requirements regarding what was expected of their guests after taking a shower as well as the full sized mirror.

However, due to their unbelievably reasonable rates, he didn’t question it.

OK, we get it. Now take the hat off.

That reminds me – I heard a soft-rock/almost-reggae version of “Love Bites” at the grocery store this weekend and was nearly driven to violence.

I heard she’s European,a pole dancer.

Very interesting painting. A slender young man (?)(torso) – in a feminine pose (waist down). Don’t believe me ? — Cover half the figure image at a time and look at it again. Great moments in Trans history?

Cheech and Chong: We’ll never fit that on the album cover!

“Man, oh, man… This is a horrible dream!”

“Uhm… It grows.”

They only allows male artists in the class ever since the model got excited when Mamie was in there.

Male Nude in the Studio of Bonnat: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings of nude standing males seen from behind" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Brave search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Wikimedia Category: found and once there find the text string 1877, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed by the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3454 (February 3, 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 .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here, the February 3, 2017, strip being the prior.

An artist friend of mine had a funny picture: the subject was clothed and all the art students were nude.

“Dont judge me guys, its really really cold in here”

No! my hands aren’t making it do that. Watch, I’ll put my hands here and do it again.

Mr Tuxen was in a rush and didn’t bother to paint the model’s fingers! His fingers are all melded together and look like a scarf or towel!

“Still life with zucchini and nuts”.