Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 18, 2014

I’m sure, Calvin can figure out a way to add other hues to his art.

I was mentioning pretentiousness a few days ago…

@Yngvar said, yesterdayThat’s always been the case. Look at the verbose eloquence of Sunday’s show and tell.

I am well aware of that. However, yesterday’s vocab (and today’s) is especially advanced – way beyond his normal (extensive) vocab.

If a piece of ‘art’ requires that much verbal explanation, it’s failed as art.

Have to say I like this one a lot more than his normal tormented snow-beings, whatever it is ;-)

It is quite an expression. After hearing the explanation, I’d buy it and let it meld just for the sake of art. I’d call it it “not burning but melting money”.

This should be enlarged and put at the entrance to every Modern Art Gallery

If nothing else one could say it’s transparent. That is until the sun takes it’s toll.

Which is an art form into itself.

Holy Hole !!

All he needs is a cold day and a little food colouring. Spray it on, it’ll freeze and help the sculpture last.

Reminds me of the sculpture in the original film of Rear Window: an etoilated abstract near-human figure with a large hole in the middle. The artist said: “It’s called Hunger.”

Looks like a cat with a hole in it

Very clever (and you’re right!)

Not sure whether this is true art or just a snow job.

Click here: Peanuts (June 24, 1960)

Click here: Pearls Before Swine (March 29, 2008)

Channelling his inner Henry Moore?

Good critique, Hobbes.

I think I hear your MOMA calling.

I’ll buy it for 60,000 snow dollars

It must be my twisted sense of humor; but when I see Calvin’s creation (with the hole) all I could think of was this silly film with Bruce Willis, Meryl Streep, and Goldie Hawn…

What is art? Art is anything you can sell to a third party on the pretext that it is art. You only need one person (the buyer) to agree with you (the maker).

….target practice on a snowcat??? ….. or the endless flow of useless knowledge that never finds a permanent cerebral home?

Good enough for an NEA grant. They’ve (meaning “we’ve”) funded far worse.

For us we received little more snow not enough to make abstract art as Calvin did.

Snow with a hole in it!

xxx

Reminds me of the golf-ball trophy we gave to our boss. The golf ball had a hole in it. The plaque read: ‘Hole in One’.

I want to read the art book they’re learning those terms from.