That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 07, 2022

Stop showing them off, Helen! They don’t look real!

/// The Large Bathers, a work by Renoir,

has a title that comes off bizarre.

They are hardly grotesque,

(just a tad Rubenesque),

so this fat shaming goes much too far.

/// The two girls on the shore getting dried

should be bursting with full-figured pride.

Hurtful jeers like “Large Marge,

you’re as big as a barge!”

should be duly denounced and decried.

This is what men imagine happens on women’s night out.

Go play with the other girls, Hanna, you’re too young for this conversation.

I bet Renoir didn’t tell the models involved what he was planning to name the painting.

On the bank of the slow flowing SeineThere’s a bathing spot close to a drain..But I’m telling my daughter To enter that water You have to be simply insane …

The foremost of my many reasons ?

The last epidemic of lesions…

Which ravaged the masses

Immersing their asses

In The pee of a million Parisians.

Latrice’s Onlyfans page

I hope I am not misconstrued,..

I’ll buy any excuse for A nude !

But Parisian plumbing

(At the time) was mind-numbing..

To this hypochondriac dude.

/// The papa of these five girls said, “You’re

being spied upon by a voyeur!”

“Yes, we know,” said his daughters.

“We’re not here for the waters.

We were hoping to get some amour.”

Evidently they bathe sans peur

Of the gaze of the passing voyeur..

In Summer, nude swimmin’

For Parisian women

Is regarded as de rigueur..

Daphene! Stop staring, and as the men say, “Grow a pair”.

Admit it. These kids do look well

Gamboling “au naturel”

Near the very Grand Jatte

Where our boyGeorges Seurat

Depicts a mores staid clientele…

Nice trees in the background .

“Gwen cover yourself, the sun reflecting off your skin is blinding.”

The bare-faced cheek…..

Finally, they stocked the pond.

Behold Les Grandes Baigneuses ..

What sensations that painting produces !

For it cannot be faked -

Those women are naked

Whatever the hell their excuses !

“What knockers.” “Vhy zank you, docteur.”

These girls are a bit easier on the eyes than Les Desmoiselles D’Avignon!

Quick: What color are her eyes??

After a hard day of hunting – where are the dogs?

In these times, this shape was the norm rather than the exception…..

I’m sure “Pam & Tommy” will include this scene.

Tech rehearsal for South Pacific: “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair”

Ah, the “fat, squishy broad” school of painting.

As the deadline approached, he realized that he couldn’t get the other 7 models on the calendar cover.

The girls are just having some frolic and fun. " Keep it clean, ladies! "

It’s Good to be the Artist!

This painting was made as an advertisement for one of the most prominent plastic surgeons in Paris – Dr. I. Lifté de Boobaise!

Ooh la-la .. I’m liking this.

This is what most guys think the women’s restroom is like.

The frolicking never ends in a Renoir water painting!

Thanks to those who posted rhymes. Very beneficial in the good or bad times.

Renoir had to sit and paint them for hours instead of joining them. One has to marvel at his self-restraint. Or whatever it was.

O M G! Dueling limericks!

Renoir had a very good day… very, very good day.

The Large Bathers: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre-Auguste_Renoir,_French_-_The_Large_Bathers_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this painting.

A larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image at 

https://thatispricelessblog.com/2022/02/masterpiece-2873/ 

and using the dropdown menu. I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far 12 works, by this artist, have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/08/20?comments=visible 

has the prior (my blog comment here links include the artist info URLs in my comment there).

Is there room for one more……

a few ladies thought they would go skinny dipping, only non had skinnies.

“Oooo, girlfriend… You’re making me wet!”

Translation’s a difficult game -

there are two famous works by that name.

What’s even more silly?

They both live in Philly

But Renoir’s and Cezanne’s aren’t the same.

From my house it’s a genteel bike ride

to the museum where they both reside.

The Cezanne by that name

has more nudes but less shame:

too few telling details are supplied!

Early all female nudist colony.

Ladies, I believe it is time for me to make a 4 foot by 6 foot painting. It may take me awhile.

We are talking about you, not to you … go away!