That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 12, 2017

Connecting all the dots.

If you squint just right…. it gets worse.

Maybe after a trip to the eye-doctor.

No, the first Impression is the best.

Sorry Julia, but we can never see each other again. No seriously. The artist didn’t even give us eyes.

“… if we could see other again.” Perhaps that was meant to be “each other”?

If you take these glasses from my face, I think that you will find

I’m most decidedly, undeniably just this shade of blind.

I don’t judge a friend or lover by a first or second look

Or a book just by the cover—hell, I can’t see the book!

Nearsighted, it’s another lovely day

Nearsighted, as I stumble on my way.

Though I’m slightly out of focus, I can see my dreams come true

Nearsighted, all I need to see is you!

…Rupert Holmes

That Renoir, he was spot on.

 

OK, supply the missing meaning….

sure, it could be wanting to know you better…..

“I’d really love it if we could see each other again.”

 

or, then again…. a rather blithe way to break up:

“I’d really love it if we could see others again.”

 

BTW an elderly neighbor once gave me a calendar she was given for her birthday,

each page a nice print of a famous impressionist painting….

because, she explained, it was so badly printed everything was out of focus, and she didn’t want it on her wall…….

but if it didn’t bother me, maybe I could just use it to keep track of appointmnts and such.

… let’s do Luncheon.

After cataract and Lasik surgery and alcohol rehab, their second date was different.

(Renoir and Debussy… my idea of heaven!)

…you can leave your hat on.

“They say that that HD stuff should be coming along pretty soon. Of course, I’ll have to be more conscientious trimming my nose hair then.”

I don’t see the point.

This is the first Polaroid capturing Trump doing his well known grab routine. Fortunately there are witnesses that say it never happened and it was taken using a water damaged lens.

Picking Flowers: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre-Auguste_Renoir_-_La_Cueillette_des_fleurs.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome – can translate pages if necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

 

http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/renoir/renoir_bio.htm 

http://hoocher.com/Pierre_Auguste_Renoir/Pierre_Auguste_Renoir.htm 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/r/renoir/biograph.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/pierre-auguste-renoir 

http://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=24 

http://www.all-art.org/history480-4.html 

all have info about this artist, some going into greater depth or allowing access to images of more works, than others. The first accesses a full archive of the now defunct CGFA website, with which, some of you may have been familiar, but since lost track of. It titles this Conversation with the Gardener, but lists the same current-location; that lists the title I used. So far, 10 works by him have been used here.

 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2016/10/03?comments=visible 

has the prior work (which, sadly, still has the 20 hyperlinks in my comment there, inactive @#$%&!).

 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1844 (December 11, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

No details until the third date!

Swipe left.

“For over thirty years I made periodic visits to Renoir’s ‘The Luncheon of the Boating Party’ in a Washington museum, and stood before that magnificent masterpiece hour after hour, day after day, plotting ways to steal it.” ~ Edward G. Robinson

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TCM has been playing Edward G. Robinson’s movies today in celebration of his birthday.

Finding a Renoir here today reminded me of this quote.

I came across it a while ago, and it tickled me to know that he had loved this painting, too, and was so funny, and typically “Edward G.”-ish, about it.

“I love your tight little…focus. "

The artist must have been allergic to flowers…