Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 09, 2015

Yuhh, oh!… T+J+Q= Bad math… – Wonder if everybody’s got it mixed up- where Shannon’s really eating the art, and Brad and Toni are actually looking at the food?… Well, then again, I guess that wouldn’t make things any better…they’d probably still look and taste the same…

What kind of food was Shannon expecting: hamburgers?

“Art For Arts’ Forsake”“Varnishing Act”“Dull And Void”“Imitation Of Strife”“My Old Ragtime Gal-lery”“I Have A Voided Me”“Self Preservation”“The Master Of Disaster Piece”“No Relief In These Reliefs”“The Ick In Mosaic”“Shredded What? "or“Antiques No Show "

Notice that some of the ‘artworks’ are priced. This is the kind of thing that a community college/state school can do for its art students; allowing them the opportunity to show and sell art years before a private, for-profit gallery would be interested in them. Similarly, those of us who live near Seminole County’s Community College/State School benefit from low priced tickets to theatrical productions (most of decent, too), and concerts.

Now notice that the ‘work of art’ called vanity that looks like a plucked chicken with a comb stuck in it back has a ridiculous asking price. Shannon could have created better art…

Why is “#7” shaped like a “6”? -And why should anyone have to pay $75 for a 7, shaped like a 6?

Will Shannon call BS on the Emperor’s Zebo clothes?

I can buy red bricks for under 50 cents each and than sell it as art for 200 bucks

I’m afraid sometimes we all look like Shannon – saying, “This is life?”…

At least we have an enlarged cast of players here now. .But where is Sun? .Where is Emo or Jock.? Of course we don’t know their names.

My town of 20,000 has a gallery that hosts free monthly receptions with terrific catered food— little cupcakes and cheeses and munchies and fruit and even free beer and wine.

Has a situation in h.s. art class (never took college art) where I sat on a project until the night before it was due. Tossed together something silly, gave it a great big and impressive explanation, and teacher loved it. “A” with the thing on display. Of course, this WAS h.s., and she may have really wanted to encourage ANYTHING creative in ANY kid. And creative WRITING I’ve alway been pretty good at. ;-):-P

Such open-mindedness. Are we sure Brad isn’t 85 years old?

“I have an idea of how to teach these artists a lesson!” says TJ. He enlists Brad in a scheme to barricade the door so people can neither enter nor leave the room. “Boy, we are so clever,” the boys smirk. Shannon asks, “What if I need to use the bathroom?” The SWAT team is called in.

7 is silly specially with name given, maybe should have been called “b-4 7” the comb one is not vanity is “BS strokes” nine is also stupid, and the brick one is simply lazy..the closest to actually being art and not give the vibe of something just thrown together is the unknown title face bust

Don’t laugh, a couple of them could easily will the ‘Stomach’ Turner Prize!http://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/turner-prize

Why did Greg write on the tablecloth? Will Toni ever get rid of those dumpy cargo pants & wer a skirt? Lets see some leg!

I hope this week is the end of Zebo(ring).

The art seems real, at a student level, if not especially good. Shannon needs to get out to few more openings to get the idea of finger-foods. For that fraud Zébo’s pseudo-Parisian opening, I supposed escargot with melted garlic butter would be good. Maybe that’s what Shannon is about to try.

Vanity looks like a poop with a comb stuck in it .

everyone’s a critic!

Which is which?

(Oh My Gaw, It’s that BRAT Shannon! Quick, Someone Raise the National Threat Level to ORANGE Whilst I Distract Her!)

(A-hem) Hey Shannon! Wanna Have Some FUN? Well Just Feel Free to Run Around SCREAMING at the Top Of Lungs and BREAK Any and ALL “Art” You Come in Contact With.

And When Professor Bozo walks up to You and Says: “Just WHAT Do You Think You’re Doing Child?!!?” You Give Him a One-Squint, Look Him Square in the Eyes and Say:“I’m Making ART! What the Heck do You THINK I’m Doing???”

Then You STOMP His Big Toe Real Real Hard, Seize His Hideous Ascot and Run Pell-Mell for the Door Thereby Spinning the Professor like that Spinning Top You DIDN’T Get for Christmas.

And DON’T Forget to YELL “Rat” as You Exit The Door.

…Hey, You Don’t Have to THANK Your Unca Mordy, Kid.

I like the stories where the janitor throws the “art” away thinking is is junk. Actually it is junk but the critics love it.

You’re right. Where are any other people? We better see those 2 boys Luann actually talked to in the class. Maybe they will get real names? If they never get real names, or if the Mr. Stereotype names _are_their real names….wow.

Also, it’s funny that Brad or anyone else would expect these students to be making pretty, perfect sculptures in the first semester art course! But I’m really pleased Luann is studying art (future cartoonist?). Frank’s likely to be annoyed by that. He’d want something more conventional, but it’s Luann’s education and her choice, not his.

That’s why there’s usually so much alcohol available at “art” shows – to blur the perceptions

Brad: “This is art?”Shannon: “This is food?”Welcome to the Zebo Zone!

I just looked up what “Vernissage” on dictionary.com – “Also known as Varnishing Day. The day before the opening of an art exhibition traditionally reserved for the artist to varnish the paintings.” Uhm, Shannon, I would not eat what’s in your hand!

“Shannon is not a “brat….,”_____________________________________

Yeah. Yeah, You’re Right, Gauntlet.I Shoulda Wrote “Spawn of the Infernal Regions.”

Je deteste Col Zebo!

If the instructor only added “the Magnificent” after his name.

I love Shannon.

No, Shannon. It is from Amway.

Both the blurring of perceptions and the looser funds are the benefits of the ample alcohol at these shows. But, being a diehard skin flint, I prefer the gentle distortion of perceptions route when I venture across campus to visit the shows at the Art Department.

I once conceived of a floor mat with steak knives stuck in it titled:“Toe Stubs – Cause and Effect”.10cc – Art For Arts Sake

That “art” that Toni is standing by looks like a pile of chitlin’s, straight oiut of the pig or whatever. You can cut out a serving with that knife sticking in it.

Glad I checked to see if I was going to repeat a reply. Ditto Dave :-)

If someone else would pay the rest, I’d contribute $5 to that battle hill figurine emphasizing the diversity of soldiers who died to plant the flag on top.

ReallyBad2 said" Really wish Evans would draw unique characters in the background instead of Luann’s friends and family all the time.-Weenie World party? Same people.Quill’s play? Same people.Art show? Same people.-At least create the illusion that other people are there. Even silhouettes would make a big difference. … . . . . "-—————————-I agree. There have been times when he had actual background people – some were even interesting looking, funny. .Now, even the silhouettes seem scarce. .There seems an increasing fear of adding new characters. The driver in Peru was one recent one, but Mr. Gray seems only a face.

Dave.53. said, about 3 hours agoQuill: " So then I said, ‘squirt gun?’ " …………"-———————————Let’s not give Brad ideas.

My niece sold a painting at a local art show this past weekend

RB2… I think Zebo is a good, albeit very unconventional teacher. In regards to the “quality” of the art…. well, hell, it is a freshman introductory course at a community college… I would not anticipate freshman level art (at least for non-art majors) courses at any institution to have MOMA ready pieces at any institution…. even “Harvard”. So, for me, the art is similar in many ways to the finger paintings and clay sculptures my kids did in preschool…. just a bit more sophisticated. And, that is to be expected, IMO.

Art is something that is very subjective, EVEN MORE subjective than the opinions of readers of Luann in gocomics………….. what is good art? some would swear by the impressionist artists, others by modernism and others by abstract and others by realism, some appreciate paintings of the past even byzantine and Gothic that were without proper perspectives, while others only like surreal ones, others hate certain types…………….. the desire of “surreal art” was probably created thanks to the creation of photographs, which basically stopped the need of painters to depict historic events, I have nothing against a lot of the modern art, where one can actually see what the painter is trying to evoke, but a lot of the issue is that so much of the art seems to be someone getting 3 brushes with paint of different colors, than shaking the paint toward the canvas and than whatever gets in the canvas is called art

But is it art?

this time I kind of agree UNLESS Greg wanted to show there was no huge success of the vernisagge, but we should have gotten at least friends and family of the other art class students even if the intent was to show there was no huge crowd

no need to have 20 silhouettes in the background, but we should see sporadic 3 or 4 silhouettes in the back

please, not a whole week of this…

from yesterday, I figured out the “blue thing art”……….“me” is a sponge with a straw inserted, so lea extracts as much nutrients as possible from “herself” or others extract it from her

OK, I’m now officially starving again (2 hours after eating), so it’s time to grab the hummus and Melba toast out of my office fridge…

Texture c’est très important pour dèconné

“Mr. Thurber. I am writing you to let you know that my 5 year old can draw as well as you.”.“Yes, but I went to college!”

“everyone’s a critic!”.The real problem is a critic shortage.We need more critics to critique the critical qualities of the critics and critics to critique them, out to who knows how far?.Who will guard the guardian?Who will critique the critic??

http://www.artsumo.com/blog/post/4/They_Paid_What_Top_10_Absurd_Paintings_that_Sold_for_Millions/ I don’t mind the Peinture (Le Chien) one, but the others?

can anyone see my comments?

Shannon is a real pain in the butt and Toni will probably want to take her on their honeymoon. Poor Brad, not even married and already feeling the curse of in-laws.

“Maybe TJ is telling Quill about the time he committed insurance fraud…”^Lol! Quill does seem pretty good at keeping peoples’ “secrets”…

Lol, more like Luann’s work is going straight to the “Evans gallery”. Probably will be “guarded” to make sure no one “gets any ideas”…

Meanwhile, somewhere in the world, there’s a guy named Art, who wonders just how much he’s worth….

And also, like parachutes, it’s when a good thought comes “at the right time”….

actually, mind is an art, has to be open, but at same time not empty. open is windows and doors where you allow fresh air to come in, while empty is no furniture, no decorations no spirit of home, is just a house

in the true sense of the word, an open mind is one who appreciates the beauty of different homes, and does not think of their house as the only beautiful home, and anyone different from that is an ugly home…………….. a Peruvian home is beautiful, so is a Japaneses one, and an Eskimo one, and one in the West Virginia country and one in downtown New York, they simply are different but not ugly, and there are houses that might even have nice furnitures and art, but yet, they are not homes

“I hope you Never have kids. You would damn them as demons.”_____________________________________

Says the Person Who takes His name from the “demon-Like” creatures who supposedly “tickle” their victims into submission.

Lighten Up Gauntlet. What I wrote was in Jest.

Caldonia said, about 5 hours ago@DavidHuieGreen“Of course you will put words in my mouth again (in the submit box thingy?) but you have just written something so odd, I think I will quote it:”-“A completely open mind is an empty mind.”-“You wrote that. That is a thing you actually wrote.”.Yep, me did.The STRANGE thing, though is that you somehow think I was putting words in your mouth by writing it..Not sure what caused your confusion.What you wrote, I placed inside quotation marks and in bold face type . I then separated it from what I said, which was NOT in quotes by an entire line with just a lonely dot..A completely open mind has no preconceptions, no existing opinions, no previous experiences to affect its perceptions.Even to oppose the opinions of others is sign of a partly closed mind..Do you understand yet?

(Beep, beep sfx:) Okaay… backing up, turning round… ooh, what’s that over there?…

An example of the difference between “open” and “completely open”:.“Would you like to try the boudin?”.“Certainly. I’m open to new experiences.Umm, very tasty.”.“Would you like to try the cat food?”.“Thank you, but no, I’m not completely open to all new experiences.”.(For all I know, cat food might be delicious, I will let the completely open minded discover their subjective truth.)

“I’ve heard it said that “minds are like parachutes — they function well when they are open”.”.Aren’t they usually open at the bottom and closed at the top?

" "I don’t know. Is your name Ruthie?” ".Hate to admit it, but that one went right over my balding head.Expound please.