MythTickle by Justin Thompson for April 15, 2009

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    Joe_Minotaur  over 15 years ago

    Dada, can I have some Monet? I would like to buy some Dutch Masters. They said the fruit in the bowl was dead, but I believe there was still life in that painting.

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    Sisyphos  over 15 years ago

    “Dada”? Not at MOMA?!

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    oranaiche  over 15 years ago

    Good one(s), Joe!

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    cleokaya  over 15 years ago

    Where’s my Man Ray?

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    Kaero  over 15 years ago

    Yay! A Dada joke! Oh, joy, joy, scamdaddidlyumptious gallumping joy!

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    dewrite1  over 15 years ago

    Baroque= what you are when your out of Monet

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    farren  over 15 years ago

    baslim etc: your opinion does not seem to be shared by most of the art historians (nor by most of the artists) I know. Dada made a huge impression. As far as its good points, well, that’s kind of up to you.

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    ChiehHsia  over 15 years ago

    re: Dada, brutalist architecture, twelve-tone music, etc.

    We all need to make the occasional mistake in order to learn. Also, a truly great artist will at least occasionally transcend whatever style (s)he is using.

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    shadowwriter  over 15 years ago

    uhhh….i’m sorry but i am not getting it, but i am bad with names, i assume he is some famous artist?

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    pschearer Premium Member over 15 years ago

    June 19, 2006. Yes, ancient indeed.

    (Many good jokes. Thanks all. Shadowwriter: Google first, ask after.)

    Can anyone make out what the little picture is supposed to be?

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    Justjoust Premium Member over 15 years ago

    It’s a Salvador Dalí painting called ‘Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of a New Man’. I chose it because the Dadaist movement is looked upon as the ‘Father’ of Dali’s surrealist style. Since you can’t really see it, it’s pretty much just a little joke for me. :)

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    cwreenactor  over 15 years ago

    ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!! LOL!!! Thanks.

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    ChiehHsia  over 15 years ago

    With as many bad jokes and good comic strips as have taken pot shots at, or been inspired by “Nude Descending a Staircase”, nobody should have to google it. And my use of the lower case “g” in “google” is intended as a deliberate insult. Hmph.

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    BlueRaven  over 15 years ago

    Oh, those of us who know our art history applaud this one. But I’ve been known to be the odd woman out when getting the joke before. You know who majored in English Literature or theater arts in a theater full of people watching Shakespeare in Love when a street urchin named Johnny Webster waxes rhapsodic about bugs and blood and killing. He wrote Duchess of Malfi, one of the few Jacobean dramas anyone ever bothers to produce and the clear ancestor of the slasher film. I saw that film its opening weekend and lost it laughing at little Johnny. I was one of about ten people who did. The rest of the place had NO idea why we laughed.

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    Gunnr  over 15 years ago

    @Roger, but not THAT one, the other one.

    Begging your pardon in advance for being compusive – can’t help it – it’s a compulsion! – but when a proper noun (“Google”) is used as another part of speech, i.e. a verb (“to google”) it isn’t capitalized. So whatever your intentions, you were grammatically correct not to capitalize it… .I am the grammarian about whom you have been warned… .

    Also, I think Duchamp had the last laugh – he has now become enshrined in the very “art establishment” he spent a good deal of his career industriously (and gleefully) sending up.

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    Are2Dee2  6 months ago

    Punny

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