That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 02, 2024

Woman With Sunflower ? Hello! There’s a baby in the painting!

/// See the Woman with Sunflower dote

on her daughter. What does this connote?

It’s a symbol most missed.

She’s a proud suffragist,

who hopes, one day, all women can vote.

Hippy women names her child Sunflower.

This is you . . . and this is what you’ll look like when you have a child.

mirror mirror in my hand, who’s the barest in the land?

I had a relative that took a Christmas photo of her with her naked 2-year old daughter on her lap. She didn’t have a sunflower though.

Thanks, Steve! I’ve loved Mary Cassatt ever since I studied her work in my college Art History classes.

All of us who clicked “Like” for today’s strip have now been listed by Google as suspected pedophiles.

Nuthin says éclat like a brat by Cassatt in the mor-ornin’..

“I think I look good enough to pull it off. If anyone asks, I’m your sister”.

The mother looks truly aghast, as if to say “Oh No……You didn’t?”and the child is about to break into a grin as if to day “Oh Yes I did!”Great work by the artist catching that magic moment just before and awful odor appears seemingly out of nowhere.

See here, darling child, you will never make it in the world of Toddlers and Tiaras if you don’t get rid of that belly fat.

How dare Ms. Cassatt intrude/

On our idyllic interlude?/

It’s uncouth and it’s rude/

(And my daughter is nude !)/

Ms. Cassatt is about to be sued…

The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the U.S.A. adopted the Kansas sunflower and the Maine jonquil (daffodil) as their floral symbols. The daffodil eventually became the flower of choice, because of its size and easy availability.

The red rose became the symbol of the Women’s Anti-Suffrage Movement.

Is that sunflower meant to distract/

From the indisputable fact/

And the painful conclusion/

That this IS an intrusion/

And the artist is lacking in tact?///

Poor mother is visibly shocked/

She’ll be blamed, since the door wasn’t locked/

Her cry of dismay/

Rocked the Champs Élysées:/

“Geez, Mary- you could have knocked ..”

“It’s very cute, sweetie, but let’s get you dressed before… oh. Well, thank goodness my dress is yellow.”

These days that depiction qualifies as kiddie porn, and the artist would be arrested.

Unusual for a child that young to be pregnant. But how else to explain the alarmingly distended abdomen?

Roses are red, sunflowers are yellow, you have a tummy, like a bowl full of jell-o.

Mighty young child to have such a gut. Looks out of proportion. Could the artist have wanted to hide the genital area?

Woman with a Sunflower or Mother and Child: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:1905 oil on canvas paintings" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string 46573, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3245 (January 2, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 5 works by her have been used here, the November 28, 2023, strip being the prior.

“Hurry up and finish the painting! She’s not wearing diapers and it’s just a matter of time.”

Twenty years later, the child was posing the same way …. for a different audience.