The cubs are at the art museum studying the works of the great masters (as all eight-year-olds enjoy doing). Let's watch...
MIMI: "No you couldn't paint better with your eyes closed, Tasli! It's an impressionist painting---it's not supposed to be photo-realistic!
MIMI: "Can't you feel the urgency of the moment, in the hurried brushstrokes of the artist? Too much attention to detail would slow the painting down" Even the vanity of the mother cat, stretched and warped by her own committed celerity, was sacrificed ...for the sake of her kittens!"
MIMI: "Don't you just love the idea of kittens, Gene?"
TASLI: "I think I like fire"
Oh my! D:
The picture is of a real painting I bought from a thrift store. With its frame, the painting is over 3ft long and over 2ft tall. It's big, so it was no doubt a centerpiece in the original owner's house. The subject appears to be of a mother cat rescuing her kittens from a burning house.
The painting SEEMS to have a hidden signature ('E. W.' ...very unfortunate initials if true), but it could be my imagination. To see the painting closer up, click here (yes, I uploaded it by itself, but I like this painting and wanted to bring it to InkBunny): https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40958636/
The problem with 'My six-year-old could draw that' is 1.) No they can't. And 2.) No they won't.
The thing with art is it is the home of frippery, seldom about content but all else instead. The Mona Lisa is an invaluable masterpiece. A photocopy, or even an expertly copied painting of it, is worthless. For its content? No, for its lack of history and connection to the one that painted it. Any value that cannot be shared by an image of the art is not based on the art itself. This is how NFTs got started.
Evelyn Waugh? The problem with 'My six-year-old could draw that' is 1.) No they can't. And 2.) No t
Oh, Mimi... you cute poor soul. You have a looooong while before you can even think about "kittens". Which to Mimi is too long; and to Gene is not long enough.
I think Tasli had the right idea... the whole conversation was headed to a fire... a dumpster fire lol :3
What's bigger than a dumpster fire? A house fire! Oh, Mimi... you cute poor soul. You have a looooo
