Given that some folks can take little more that a colored pen, press it against a standard size canvas so a leaves a dot no bigger a period, call it art, and then sell it for five figures or more tells me Lucy’s wrong about what Linus doing not being art. And there are other things that folks get away with calling art. I could take and make a ham and Swiss, take a couple bites out of it, set it on a plate, then call it something stupid like “Man Visits Ego” and I can assure you that if I get the right museum and the right crowd I’d get away with calling it art and make big bucks off what should have been lunch. Doubt too many calling themselves artists got away with stuff like that back when this strip originally ran. Today some of what passes as art is just ridiculous.
Given that some folks can take little more that a colored pen, press it against a standard size canvas so a leaves a dot no bigger a period, call it art, and then sell it for five figures or more tells me Lucy’s wrong about what Linus doing not being art. And there are other things that folks get away with calling art. I could take and make a ham and Swiss, take a couple bites out of it, set it on a plate, then call it something stupid like “Man Visits Ego” and I can assure you that if I get the right museum and the right crowd I’d get away with calling it art and make big bucks off what should have been lunch. Doubt too many calling themselves artists got away with stuff like that back when this strip originally ran. Today some of what passes as art is just ridiculous.