Category: Art

Art

A Curious Pig

Shelly

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One of my coworkers was cataloging a book for the fine arts library when I stopped by her desk to talk. I flipped through the book quickly, to look at the pictures (I work with boring government documents, so I rarely get to play with fun books). There were several photos of tattooed, taxidermied pigs. WTF?! The text was all in French, which I don’t speak, so I don’t know what the artist had to say about his work. The images were both creepy and amazing, though. Seriously, who the hell tattoos a dead pig?! WITH THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS?!!!

The funny part (to me, anyway) is that I’ve really been wanting to get a tattoo of a flying pig. Maybe the universe is trying to tell me something

Art

The Cardinal’s Portrait

Shelly

The Cardinal's Portrait
The Cardinal’s Portrait (1896), by Toby Rosenthal

I grew up with this print. I don’t remember a time when it wasn’t in my family. My mom gave it to me a few years back, but I’ve never really had a good place to hang it, so it’s been sitting in the back of my studio closet. I finally decided I didn’t care if it went with anything else in my apartment. I dug it out of the closet and hung it in the living room. Now I just need to polish the frame, because it’s in pretty sad shape.

As I was looking online for any additional info on the original (there isn’t much), I kept running into message board posts from people who said they had the original. They’d been given it, inherited it, or had found it at a yard sale. I’m pretty sure there’s just one version of the painting and that what those folks have are prints. Logic, people! When I worked at the art museum, there was a steady stream of folks who had found some “treasure” and wanted to know if it was a long-lost original SOMETHING.