That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 07, 2023

/// When he’s working Herr Friedrich would sit

in his studio, canvas well lit

through the window by sun.

When the painting is done,

he stands up and back, critiquing it.

This one has left most at a loss for words (comments)

“Hmmm. Something is definitely wrong with this stereopticon…”

Fred stops to admire his first paint-by-number masterpiece

In the left panel, we see a door / In the right, the door is no more / When he’s done for the day / How does he get away? / Through a trap door in the floor?

He was once the most diligent of men/

Whether working with brush or with pen/

But things have grown drastic/

Since women’s gymnastics/

Is showing on ESPN…///

“The Bachelorette” finished, and soon after, “Big Brother” begins. Crazy. When will the writers return? :-)

When and why did we start talking about cartoons in iambic pentameter? I don’t get it.

The only web comic strip you need a microscope to read!

Portrait of the artist after he feng shui’ed the heck out of his Brooklyn studio apartment.

Before Nutrisystem…….After Nutrisystem.

Painting storefronts young ladies and streetlamps, Georg constantly suffered from hand cramps, But bills he must pay, So he thought of a way, With original hand-pianted postage stamps.

The first laptops had really big screens.

The windows were cleaner Before than After. :-)

Not every job benefits from a sit-stand station.

There are channels that just show peaceful nature scenes. Has there ever been an art channel? Just showing famous paintings in a leisurely rotation?

Georg found the quality of his paintings dramatically improved when he stood too far away for his brush to reach the canvas.

As the quality of the T V set increased, the quality of the programs to watch decreased.

Caspar David Friedrich in his Studio: 

is the title of both. Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:German portrait paintings in the Hamburger Kunsthalle" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(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) for the BEFORE painting, and 

"Category:Paintings in the Alte Nationalgalerie" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

for the AFTER painting. 

After each search, choose the first result (may not start with Category:) found, and once there find the text string Kersting, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about that roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Each File history has its strip coloration image.

Again, a (slightly) larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #66 (December 19, 2009) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 4 works by him have been used here (5 times total, including this repeat and a prior of this dual strip), the December 20, 2011, strip being their first use. Back then, my comments were less informative. The September 13, 2022, strip has the prior non-repeat by him.

Herr Friedrich’s avant-garde enthusiasm for minimalism gradually affected his mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_von_K%C3%BCgelgen#/media/File:Gerhard_von_K%C3%BCgelgen_portrait_of_Friedrich.jpg

The sales girl assured him that the ladies love a big screen, but he was beginning to suspect she had other motivations.

“Georg Friedrich Caspar David in his Studio,” 1811 and “Caspar David Friedrich in his Studio,” 1819

Nuthin could be noisier than an old German snorin’ in the mor-ornin’…

*Solstice_*_1947*: “Nuthin’ feels more trying than to watch him watch paint drying in the mor-or-ornin’…”