Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for March 03, 2019

Once again, 10 years ago, Richard posted a blog entry for this strip:

http://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/2009/03/art.html

More of Alice’s art work is shown by an earlier blog entry:

http://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/2009/02/fridge-funnies.html

Most teachers cannot see giftedness in children. They will deny it and treat the children poorly. They should be the ones to notice it. No training in that area. They help those lower on the spectrum, but not higher who need their own care.

Lookit. No paint on the floor. That’s worth an “A”.

Many artists are not appreciated in their tenure on earth. Literally ahead of their times.

Looks like Alice’s subject is being tortured on a stretch-rack! Ms. Bliss can provide further misery with Banjo music during Nap time!

This one’s VERY “Calvin & Hobbes”. Alice is using words that no small child knows, showing talent beyond the norm, and is extremely annoyed at being ignored- classic “Calvin”. But the differences are clear- she’s passed off as a silly kid and ignored by the teacher, instead of punished like Calvin would be. And she’s more annoyed and discouraged than what would have been fury from Calvin.

oh she knows…but she also knows Alice. Sometimes it’s not worth arguing and you move right to “that’s nice dear”. In my experience the teachers catch the clever kids but the parents don’t. That was more often the case than parents thinking their kids were clever when they were quite normal.

Yes. The passive aggressive, condescending teachers are worse than the critical ones. And in sports, the, “this is not a competition, you all get a Participation Award” ones are the very worst.

“And now it’s nap-time, children. And later, a snack of some nice baby carrots…”

Tomorrow; performance art.

Dill continues to surprise. He nailed the essence of “performance art”.

The painting is interesting. A talented artist, Richard Thompson, mimics something that a small child might have done, but doesn’t quite conceal that he knows what he’s doing. A parallel, in a way, to Alice’s adult commentary on her work.

No one understood Van Gogh either.

Better than many an artist’s statement I’ve read in galleries.

I got lost at “pacism”.

A candle cannot appreciate the brilliance of the sun…

While I definitely picked up on the “power “ aspect if the piece, I don’t get the innocence or repression. Perhaps a less anguished expression and/or some typical repression imagery would better have communicated the concept.

Iʻm going to start collecting all these Amateur Philosophical Ramblings into a book which I will sell on Amazon Kindle book store and make MILLIONS!

Golly. Looks as though she went already to an Art School to learn how to formulate an “artist’s statement”! And she’s so good at it!

No great artist is appreciated by those she grew up with, Alice!