Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 10, 2016

Curmudgeons have a crappy view of the world and must see it every where they look. They like their jobs.

So where’s the crapper ?

Don’t bring your dog or you’ll have a pole of ****

Only curmudgeons tell the truth? Crap is crap.

“Meet the artist opportunity every Tuesday.

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Today’s artist, John Crapper.”

At the National Gallery of Art, one room was all nudes. I commented “this must be the Jessie Helms wing”. A guard started laughing. Helms had been in the day before, and said he’d burn the room down!!

Which room has the junk? Which room has the garbage?

Some artists are known for throwing paint at the canvas an than charging huge $$$. I wonder if they ever throw ______ and how it sticks.

GO JAYS GO !!!

The waste container is wonderful, makes a bold statement, congrats to the artist.

I guess you can’t do italics anymore?

Toon Comment:

Finally, an art space I can appreciate.

I always love the ones where the janitor those a hunk a junk away only to find it was ART! Seems to me, if it looks like junk, it’s junk!

“I’d like to speak to the curator, please.”“I think I saw him in the alley with a bunch of other guys, on their knees and throwing a pair of dice.”

This is the Andy Warhol wing.

Dang it garcoa, you beat me to it….I gotta stop sleeping in……But, while were on the subject of trash cans, art, and artists, notice Wiley drew the plastic bag liner of the trash can………Nice touches make great art….

How much you wanna bet the post modern crap wing contains one of those big orange dots?……BTW, I kinda like the paintings on the wall…..

Curmudgeon: a person who has experienced enough of history to realize unhappily that nothing much will change in the future. Also a description of a skeptic.

Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of everything is crap.

At an art museum recently, a guy put his glasses in an empty exhibit space, and then watched the patrons take pictures of them and discuss them.At an art school, they had to put a sign on a construction cone: “Stay off. This is not art. The stairs are actually broken.”

My cousin is an artist, but his art can really only be appreciated by other artists: I don’t get it. To each his own.

In a HS textbook of mine there was a picture of a painting by Piet Mondrian, “Broadway Boogie-woogie.” A bunch of lines and squares, but when I saw the title I GOT it— the streets, the lights, the action: amazing. And I still remember it 35 years later. Go figure. I’m more of an Impressionist fan— Monet etc.

The tRump Gallery!

Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of everything is crap.

But what about that coffee cup?

“Get those paintings off of my lawn!”

As my grandfather would say it, “Is what it is is crapola . . .”

Night-Gaunt49

The Minoans had sewage systems while the Romans were semi-nomadic, wondering how much they could copy from the Etruscans.

I LOVE THIS CARTOON WILEY! It’s FANTASTIC! I am quite literally ROTFL! I’m a realistic painter, landscapes, and rather good. Can’t make a dime. Took a plain canvas and scraped my paint from my used pallet onto it, called it something stupid….and it was adored. GAG! I didn’t even TRY to “work” on it. Just slopped on my residue paints.

It takes someone with more money than brains to build such a monument of crap.

That’s what all the signs say in the new obama “presidential” library!

Wiley is still the best !!

You don’t have to be a curmudgeon to know that contemporary art is an oxymoron.

Modern art.If You can walk around it, it is a sculpture.If you hit a wall , it is a painting.

As Marshal McLuhan said, “Art is anything you can get away with.”

Works for me.

Night-Gaunt49

Unverified, but I suspect Roman got it from the Etruscans (like almost every thing else other than the concept of empire – Etruscans were a collection of independent states and did not work together well, which is why the Romans conquered them, one by one.) They were on the wrong side of Italy to have had contact with the Minoan trade empire, but might have from a common trading partner.

Sturgeon’s Rule applies; “Ninety percent of Everything is crap!”

where the he!! is the Get Off My Lawn exhibit? Stupid gallery, too crappy to have proper curmudgeonly representation. There outta be a law, I tell ya. Dumb kids.