JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for May 01, 2012

Somebody please whip Jojo’s ASS for dissing Jackson Pollock like that. I painted like Pollock at Jojo’s age.

The Idiot’s Guide to Art

… and it’s true. Dave Barry is not making this up!I remember, shortly after this was first published, I actually checked the website that was selling the piece entitled, “Chair”. It was exactly as described in the article. But I think they wanted more money. Can’t find it now, it probably sold.Great investment.

Kandinsky is upscale subway graffiti.

Modern art – if you says you don’t like it, you’re a Phiistine, and if you say you do like, they snicker up their collective sleeves and know they’ve put on over on you.

Reminds me of a “Murphy Brown” episode. Her house painter (a budding artist also) was supposed to give an art exhibit, but at the last minute backed out. When the crowd arrived to the empty room, they ooh’d and ahh’d over the light switch and the “statement” made by the totally blank white wall.

P.t. Barnum said it best. “There’s a sucker born ev ery minute.” Or as my Dad asked, “Why is it that there are so many more horses a—es than there are horses?”

In the novel “Five Little Pigs” by Agatha Christie, in which the victim was an artist, she has the police inspector, Japp, talk about his painting – that he had seen one, and it was so badly drawn, it was supposed to be of roses, but no roses ever looked like that, it was (so awful) that he couldn’t get it out of his head for weeks. Poirot either says or thinks, “You do not know it, but you have just paid him a very high compliment.” I’m leaving out detail because I can’t find it, but it’s worth reading and thinking about.

I love Sunny! Thank you for these great strips with her <3