Wow, thank heaven’s for the artist’s explanation about what the first 3 panels meant. I could never have understood what the first 3 panels meant without that artist’s note!
Authorial intent is by no means irrelevant, just unenforceable; ultimately, of course, audience response is up to the audience. But if art is to be a form of communication as well as a form of expression, both ends need to make an effort to meet in the middle.
Reader’s Digest had a little paragraph or so about an artist who was 100 years old. “I don’t want anybody should break a head looking at my painting and asking what does it mean,” I recall him saying. “So I write down what it means and I put it in an envelope and tape it to the back of the canvas.”
i_am_the_jam over 2 years ago
I miss Guy Gilchrist…
danketaz Premium Member over 2 years ago
Best explanation for why the chicken crossed the road ever!
Aladar30 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Good one.
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member over 2 years ago
Agnes has clearly never read the comment section for a comic strip.
dcdete. over 2 years ago
Wow, thank heaven’s for the artist’s explanation about what the first 3 panels meant. I could never have understood what the first 3 panels meant without that artist’s note!
Decepticomic over 2 years ago
“The is”? “THE IS”?! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
Anyway, today’s strip is a nice critique of capitalism.
oakie817 over 2 years ago
so, what was your intent?
VICTOR PROULX over 2 years ago
Well, I’m glad that is cleared up.
Teto85 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Art is whatever you can get away with. $500,000 pile of metal balls near Edmonton, AB and $500,000 statue of dog poop in San José, CA.
fritzoid Premium Member over 2 years ago
Authorial intent is by no means irrelevant, just unenforceable; ultimately, of course, audience response is up to the audience. But if art is to be a form of communication as well as a form of expression, both ends need to make an effort to meet in the middle.
syzygy47 over 2 years ago
Are statues, say of Confederate generals, a work of, let’s not say art, an artist?
ja over 2 years ago
HeeHeeHee
wesleylscott1 over 2 years ago
It is all too clear to me now.
Olivia Jaimes is a pseudonym forCaptain Obvious.
willie_mctell over 2 years ago
In “Godel, Escher, Bach” there’s a little quiz asking you to differentiate between computer generated artspeak and quotes from human art critics.
David Rickard Premium Member over 2 years ago
Someone’s been reading Barthes.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 2 years ago
Never want to see Gilchrist again.
STEPUP over 2 years ago
Typo in panel 4!!!
Kip Williams over 2 years ago
Reader’s Digest had a little paragraph or so about an artist who was 100 years old. “I don’t want anybody should break a head looking at my painting and asking what does it mean,” I recall him saying. “So I write down what it means and I put it in an envelope and tape it to the back of the canvas.”
DM9001 over 2 years ago
Is this strip just a stab at the people who say the new art style sucks?