Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 22, 2013

I’ll pass on those paintings.

So, Paul is the guy who paints those stick figures on the rear windows of douchebags’ SUVs?

I wonder if Paul’s related to Stephan.

Certainly not I.

If it works for soup cans, why not figures?

Put ’em on ebay…people will buy anything there.

The only artists I know of by the name of Paul are Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso.

The bare-footed bonneted bohemian probably could be a big success with the right backing and publicity. Talent has very little correlation with commercial success (think of the late Thomas Kinkade,“painter of light”).

Since when does an “artist” wear a pith helmet? Is Paul headed for the jungle? (And no, we don’t need any jokes about pithing in his hat!)

I always thought artists were partial to berets.

@Sisyphos – some of us like Kinkade’s works — both the subject matter and his techniques, even though he was a phony and a crook in life. Can’t say he had no talent.

The hat reminded me of Diego Rivera.

Based on the lower right painting, Pig’s friend could get a job painting all those clumsy silhouettes that show us danger is present. They keep falling off ladders, getting their hands sliced up, electrocuted, decapitated, making me laugh, etc…

He doesn’t figure they will sell.

I think Paul’s art is sublime. The reductive quality of his figures and the iconicity of the purity of line, visually and conceptually activates the inherent overspecificity.(Pretentious art quote courtesy of the Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator)

I see most stick figures on minivans and foreign made cross-over vehicles, certainly not on trucks. And, to me the genesis of stick figures was Keith Haring who once had his studio in an old church in my hometown …

Totally misunderstood, what he said was that the painter is making “stix figures”.

He’s definitely not a misunderstood artist… Seems more like a completely ignored artist.

The stick figure pictures look cute!

xxx