Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 16, 2014

Think about working in stone.

Calvin, sometimes you are too precocious for your own good! ;)

As meaningful as pretentious modern art.

Bring on the Snow Goons!!!!!!!

Another damn with faint praise is “interesting”.

“Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown…”

Until the Sun comes out…

that doesn’t look promising

Quick, switch gears Calvin…now claim that it’s performance art!

Transcendental meltitation?

Linus: “These are hands which may someday shape the course of destiny!” Lucy: “They’ve got jelly on them.”

…When kept in a freezer. Lol

Calvin, art is in the eye of the beholder. And today I feel like the critic from History Of the World Part 1

The human condition is even worse than I thought!

There’s Calvin’s artwork combined with his profound insights, and then there’s the watered-down version.

So much for that “sunny disposition”…!!!

The Truth has set him free!

Take a picture, it will last longer.

Well, his heart was in the right place….As George Gobel so aptly put it, “Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?”

by coincidence, this cartoon is on the birthday of Wassily Kandinsky (see google), fabulous pretentious modern art.

Ah, the futility of action in the material world. All is transient.

What…… no Ozymandias references ?

Shelley’s “Ozymandias”

I met a traveller from an antique landWho said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:And on the pedestal these words appear:‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bareThe lone and level sands stretch far away.”4

Maybe you should pick a medium that isn’t so perishable.

A lot of kids find it upsetting when their snowman melts.

Don’t blame them to be honest.

xxx

@leagleagle48: In the last panel, Hobbes is thinking, “Your sculpture is turning into Watter son.”

His art transcends art.

Calvin is right. That sculpture definitely shows grief and suffering.

Gaelfire

Then there’s Shelley’s Sonnet ‘Elephantmandias’

I met a traveller from an antique landWho said “Two vast and legless trunks of stoneStand in the forest…Nearby on a pedestal these words appear —‘My name is Babar, King of Kings , look onMy works Ye mighty and despair.’”

with sincere (possibly grovelling) apologies to P.B.Shelley, Jean De Brunhoff and J.C.Merrick