Modern art is not about exhausted styles or purpose. It’s about convincing the buyers that there is style or purpose (in what really has no style or purpose).
This is my favorite Calvin & Hobbs. I studied art under some avant-garde “professors” in college. After a couple years, I dropped out and soon quit trying to be an artist.
I have a feeling Bill is not only a great artist, but a great entrepreneur. Unfortunately he did not cash on his ability. And we love him the most for this.
Tom Wolfe explained this in THE PAINTED WORD as the (d)evolution to Conceptual Art:”There,at last, it was! No more realism, no more representation objects, no more lines, colors, forms, and contours, no more pigments, no more brushstrokes. Art made its final flight, climbed higher and higher in an ever decreasing tighter turning spiral until . . .it disappeared up its own fundamental aperture. . .and came out the other side as Art Theory!”
BE THIS GUY over 1 year ago
Maybe it will match Hobbes furniture when spring comes.
codycab over 1 year ago
Your signature isn’t going to last, Calvin.
Templo S.U.D. over 1 year ago
whatever, Calvin
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 1 year ago
Put a banana indide a frame and you will be successful.
Flashaaway over 1 year ago
Trump’s NFT’s have set the benchmark for SFA’s.
Robin Harwood over 1 year ago
Note that Watterson has framed the landscape that Calvin is signing.
Robin Harwood over 1 year ago
And it should be “who’s putting on whom”. Six-year-olds should know that, Calvin.
Bilan over 1 year ago
Modern art is not about exhausted styles or purpose. It’s about convincing the buyers that there is style or purpose (in what really has no style or purpose).
brick10 over 1 year ago
NFTs anyone?
in-dubio-pro-rainbow over 1 year ago
A tiger’s fur-niture? Is that a fir-veneer chair…
The Reader Premium Member over 1 year ago
Have you seen Hobbes latest collection?
Calvinist1966 over 1 year ago
Yet another example of Calvin not being sure what Hobbes means.
SmallMeadow over 1 year ago
Calvin DeKlein
MayCauseBurns over 1 year ago
“Any fool can paint a picture. It takes a wise man to sell it.”
Say What? Premium Member over 1 year ago
Writing his name in the snow with a stick wasn’t Calvin’s first choice, but Watterson had to please the publishers.
sandpiper over 1 year ago
Cal’s not the first to be denied credit for something done by Nature.
Count Olaf Premium Member over 1 year ago
The Count finds the idea of a snow covered hillside or forest (or etc) being God’s snow sculpture quite uplifting and calming
uniquename over 1 year ago
Let’s hope there are a few more things to say, Calvin.
Diat60 over 1 year ago
I have a vision of the whole pantheon of artists who worked before 1900 looking down on modern art and either crying or laughing.
boydjb47 over 1 year ago
https://www.prageru.com/video/why-is-modern-art-so-badAn opinion I agree with.
WoT_Hog Premium Member over 1 year ago
“Whom”, not who. The artistry in language police hath spoken.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Funny how something can be so significant to someone as to be priceless and yet worthless to someone else who can actually put a price on it.
Tarzan & Redd Panda over 1 year ago
kinda like an NFT? or ntf or lsmft or I’m confused.
A Hip loving Canadian... over 1 year ago
Unfortunately, in a few years it will have been turned into a subdivision or worse, a strip mall.
ChessPirate over 1 year ago
Put your own funny answer on this:
Put AI Art, NFTs, and Cryptocurrency in a box, shake it up real good, open the box and whadda ya got?
Nothing!
donut reply over 1 year ago
This is my favorite Calvin & Hobbs. I studied art under some avant-garde “professors” in college. After a couple years, I dropped out and soon quit trying to be an artist.
sandflea over 1 year ago
I think Calvin would have probably signed it in yellow.
g04922 over 1 year ago
Love Hobbes !
mistercatworks over 1 year ago
It’s like those people who think they can own a giant, gas-guzzling SUV “ironically”.
hagarthehorrible over 1 year ago
I have a feeling Bill is not only a great artist, but a great entrepreneur. Unfortunately he did not cash on his ability. And we love him the most for this.
Calvins Brother over 1 year ago
I’ve got 8 inches of snow sculpture all over my neighborhood. Didn’t pay a dime.
gregcomn over 1 year ago
Tom Wolfe explained this in THE PAINTED WORD as the (d)evolution to Conceptual Art:”There,at last, it was! No more realism, no more representation objects, no more lines, colors, forms, and contours, no more pigments, no more brushstrokes. Art made its final flight, climbed higher and higher in an ever decreasing tighter turning spiral until . . .it disappeared up its own fundamental aperture. . .and came out the other side as Art Theory!”
Ooten Aboot over 1 year ago
Whom.
maverick.kaminski over 1 year ago
Brilliant
BiggerNate91 over 1 year ago
With the rise of AI art, this is still relevant today.
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 1 year ago
‘Modern Art’ is not about aesthetics, or so I’m told. I may not know art, but I know I what I hate.
willie_mctell over 1 year ago
Early NFT
T... over 1 year ago
Just throw a couple buckets of paint, then sign it, charge to see it…
EnlilEnkiEa over 1 year ago
That’s like the musician who sits outside without an instrument and records the sounds around him.
mindjob over 1 year ago
You have to do something to call it art, but very little. Snow angels perhaps
wiley207 over 1 year ago
Here we go; now we are back in 1993. I figured they were trying to re-sync the Sunday strips so they’re in the same week as the dailies.
Teto85 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Art is whatever you can get away with.
LJZ Premium Member over 1 year ago
Non Fungible Terrain!
John Jorgensen over 1 year ago
Who’s putting on whom.
rick.schindler Premium Member over 1 year ago
Could have been written this morning.
Ed Brault Premium Member over 1 year ago
He should check up at the “Lola” strip. I think there may be a market for him there.
liberalnlovinit over 1 year ago
Future Donald Trump NFT?
leopardglily about 1 year ago
Surprised he signed with a stick as opposed to peeing in the snow.