Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 02, 2011

Som’in stinks in this museum!

Don’t know about the rest but the second picture from right is definitely a “revised”Michelangelo…

Great gallery though.

This strip must be in honor of National Pig day. (March 1st)

somebodyshort wrote:

”.. I think the painting second from the right is a Leonardo ..”

Surely a recreation of Michaelangelo’s ceiling of the Sistine Chapel detail showing “Hand of God giving life to Adam”?

Pretty funny anyway. The sort of thing I’d expect “The Far Side” to produce (except may be with Cows - the museum of Bovine Art, perhaps).

C’mon! I was looking for fine swine art. You know, the black velvet painting of the pigs playing poker.

I think the far right is Gainesborough’s “The Blue Boy” or the blue piglet, if you prefer.

Did the curator buy a pig in a poke?

Where is PIGasso?

He’s in the Modern Art Sty. Err… Wing.

The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to display this fine expedition, paid for with your (and your grandchildren’s) tax dollar.

The one at the far left (with the umbrella and the big butts) appears to be a takeoff on Georges Seurat’s “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.”

sayhowURfeelingB4URgone: far as I know, the government doesn’t run any pig confinements (unless the defense budget committee in Congress counts). There are lots of big, stinky private ones, though. Wall Street comes to mind.

I’d like to see the Museum of Wine Art.

Is that Seurratt on the left?

Sumpin’ ‘bout this art ain’t kosher.

No, the government doesn’t “run” any pig confinements, they just wallow in them.The last 22 years in the white house come to mind.

Love the selection of exhibits. Somebody probably enjoyed drawing this one.

Another pork barrel project to waste taxpayer’s money.

Aaaaah…these are the days of swine and noses, huh?

I would think that an art museum as swine as this one would house the famous sculpture The Stinker…

MMMMMMMMM - BACON!

Where’s the Pig-in-a-Blanket??

I’ll bet they have a big Rubens’ wing. For all the big Rubens.

Does anyone recognize the statue in the hall by the man in black? You all have nailed the others. Maybe Wiley will have to tell us.

BOARING!!!!!

Reminds me of the Jessie Helms wing at the National Gallery, no nudes allowed.

no nudes? no nude PEOPLE, yes.

Lewreader, in real life, I’m proud to have my tax dollars fund art museums. And if I get to have a say on where my tax dollars go, I’m not having any of them go to subsidize the airlines or the farm subsidies or politicians’ health care. So there.

LOL! the ad from Constant Contact (in the left margin) features “the Thinker”! great!

statue in the hall by the man in black: DAVID

isn’t the one on the left a Monet?….

Ooops! wrong! that’s what i get for googling…..

Wiley, Wiley, Wiley…No Claude Moonet?

YOU GUYS ARNT NOTICING THE PLAY ON WORDS

SWINE ART — FINE ART

SWINE — FINE

GET IT ??? !!!!! ? ?

Now that’s making a silk purse out of a sows ear!

I love edible art http://www.slashfood.com/2010/12/10/pork-nativity-scene/

Puns today have been outstanding.

actually a few years back Cincinnati had a contest with statues of pigs made up and painted scattered around town and has an annual flying pigs marathon

CDWARDE What if your offended by “Jesus in Urine”? That’s OK because it’s art but one of the greatest works in American literature can’t use the “N” word? Get real.

Is this what passes for humor on the left? Looks like Wiley is joining Trudeau on planet unfunny has been.

That smell you smell would be the smell of MONEY

CDWard, sometimes art is supposed to shock our senses, and yes, disturb us. The pictures of the body piles at Nazi death camps are the highest calling of art in our culture. Informative and real. Yet, they offend me. Some art is supposed to make you think. Some art is supposed to offend you. Was Edgar Allen Poe an artist, or just a perverted sadist? Who cares? It’s great art.

Don’t go into the Deliverance room… or you might have to squeal like a pig!

One of their sculptures should be “The Oinker”!

Yes, of course it’s Michelangelo’s David – left trotter to mouth, head turned slightly to left, right trotter directly down.

The slight lean is not quite depicted, that’s all.

The one in the middle is probably the swine version of the Mona Lisa.

And the statue on the right a swine version of the Venus de Milo.