That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 12, 2020

There can’t be a better audience than the readers of this strip for this:

I’m just hearing about the #gettymuseumchallenge where they are asking people to recreate famous paintings from household objects while quarantining. They are astounding and hilarious! Mabrndt in particular, check out this one:

https://tinyurl.com/Gettychal041120

I’m sure this has something to do with the Easter Bunny but I need help figuring this one out!

This was also posted late on 4/11, but today’s seems to have lost the caption, which was “Which quarantine house would you choose?”

Rabbit punch.

I don’t know if I’ more puzzled by these four paintings or the fact that we have a Sunday That Is Priceless.

which is the best example of proper social distancing…?

Loss dot jay pee gee?

Nothing makes sense and clicking does not work, Since when o we get one of these on a weekend?

From the website: Which Quarantine House Would You Choose?

In panel 2, is that John Adams drinking someone under the table?

After lengthy consideration/ of the quarantine situation/ I’m unable to choose/ (one can’t really lose!)/ so I’m trying them all, in rotation !

I thought it should two boy babies through time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLRiGX3L-kw

The first, with that poor woman, nursing/ I’d swiftly repair by dispersing/ those cherubs, apace/ each to his proper space/ though I’m sure there’d be wailing and cursing.. Then on to the wrestling match/ though there might be a bit of a catch/ and those buttocks (pure white !)/in the foreground, just might/ inspire me to leave – with dispatch !

What a mish-mash!

The couple. alone, clad in black/ are spending some time on the rack/ of marital strife !/ poor husband and wife../ I’d advise them to “take to the sack”.. The last stop on my “Easter Crawl”/ would be at the drunken brawl/ twixt two chaps in peruques/ (until one of them pukes !)/ There – I think I have covered them ALL.

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my guess 1, Motherhood 2. Wickedness of man 3. Grief of death 4. Resurrection

today’s That is Priceless has me flummoxed! I keep going over the four pictures again and again and I can’t get Mr. Melcher’s meaning! I hope he reads the comments and helps us out with an explanation!

THE LIGHT DAWNS!!! go back and look at yesterday’s… he asks us which quarantine house we’d pick to live in… I am currently in #3

Mr. Melcher also posted the following yesterday:

If you’re interested, That Is Priceless makes an appearance today in a WashPo article by writer and fellow GoComics creator Michael Cavna. Thanks, Michael! https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/04/11/art-memes-hopper-scream-last-supper-purell-earring/

Life during self quarantine?

Again, Google Chrome can translate as necessary what’s pointed to below:

#1

Charity:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_Charity_(1878).jpg

So far, 16 other works by this artist have been used here.

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/02/14?comments=visible

has the prior (my comment there has artist info URLs).

#2

A Midnight Modern Conversation:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Hogarth_-_A_Midnight_Modern_Conversation_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

So far, 1 other work by this artist have been used here:

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2011/12/03?comments=visible

Sadly, my comment there has disappeared for whatever reason (perhaps comment length).

#3

Summer Shower:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santiago_Rusinol_Summer_Shower_1891.jpg

So far, 2 other works by this artist have been used here.

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/06/19?comments=visible

has the prior (my comment there has artist info URLs).

#4

Wrestling match:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sweerts,_Michael_-1649-_-_Wrestling_Match.jpg

Other versions has strip coloration. So far, 1 other work by this artist have been used here:

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2013/10/25?comments=visible

which sadly, though my comment text is there with the line breaks removed, its 13 hyperlinks remain inactive &?@#!#%&!, though the text may be informative.

One guy in painting #3 is watching the nude guys wrestle, while the other guy is completely uninterested.

Happy Easter to you, too, Mr. Melcher.

1. old times baby sitting, by the litter 2, just what did you put in the punch? 3. high class divorce talks. 4. drunk college students on spring break, they won’t remember the next morning.

Upper left, definitely. Boobs outrank booze every time.

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