La Thangue was a painter of rural landscape and portraits of country people. He was involved in the politics of the art world, trying to get the powers that were to loosen up and give more recognition to styles of work beyond rigid classicism. Unfortunately, they didn’t listen. This particulr painting is pretty typical—lush color, very painterly, somewhat idealized.
There’s a good long posting about him with a number of his paintings at https://mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/henry-herbert-la-thangue-the-pictorial-documenter-of-rural-life/.
The wikipedia article on him could use some work, but it’s a start.
Anybody here who puns on “Thangue”, “thang” and “thong” deserves public scorn of a high degree of intensity.
has the prior strip (which, sadly, still has no active hyperlinks &?@#!#%&!).
Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1687 (April 13, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.
BE THIS GUY over 7 years ago
The clean coal energy everybody is talking about.
toahero over 7 years ago
otherwise known as “black jelly beans”
Bilan over 7 years ago
Umm, girls… Not everything the bunny drops is an Easter egg.
PICTO over 7 years ago
Can’t you just feel the excrement…?
x_Tech over 7 years ago
In my neighborhood it’s Turkey droppings. But we thin the flock around Thanksgiving so there’s less of a mess.
orinoco womble over 7 years ago
Olive harvest. They beat the crap out of the trees, and then you have to pick it up.
Helen Ferrieux over 7 years ago
The only pig around here was Alfie, so I had to look for truffles myself.
Knightman Premium Member over 7 years ago
It’s 3 o’clock time to gather olives for the 5 o’clock happy hour martinis
rugeirn over 7 years ago
La Thangue was a painter of rural landscape and portraits of country people. He was involved in the politics of the art world, trying to get the powers that were to loosen up and give more recognition to styles of work beyond rigid classicism. Unfortunately, they didn’t listen. This particulr painting is pretty typical—lush color, very painterly, somewhat idealized.
There’s a good long posting about him with a number of his paintings at https://mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/henry-herbert-la-thangue-the-pictorial-documenter-of-rural-life/.
The wikipedia article on him could use some work, but it’s a start.
Anybody here who puns on “Thangue”, “thang” and “thong” deserves public scorn of a high degree of intensity.
Radish... over 7 years ago
Here we go gathering nuts in May.
katzenbooks45 over 7 years ago
Easter Egg roll on the White House lawn this year.
mabrndt Premium Member over 7 years ago
3 URLs (copy each as one line):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Herbert_La_Thangue_-_Gathering_Plums.jpg
has info and links that point to info about this painting (best viewed by Google Chrome – can automatically translate pages if necessary).
http://www.wga.hu/bio_m/l/la_thang/biograph.html
has info about this artist. So far, 3 works by him have been used here.
http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2015/05/26?comments=visible
has the prior strip (which, sadly, still has no active hyperlinks &?@#!#%&!).
Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1687 (April 13, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.
Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member over 7 years ago
“I told you, contact lenses are more trouble than they’re worth.”
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 7 years ago
…i was busy…
danketaz Premium Member over 7 years ago
“When he asked if I wanted a date, I should have gotten more details.”
d1234dick Premium Member over 7 years ago
grandma harvest of Marijuana, before hybrids
gopher gofer over 7 years ago
what a crappy caption…