According to search…. it’s a Pesquet’s parrot (Psittrichas fulgidus), also known as the Dracula parrot. Or the vulturine parrot (but there’s a different one in Brazil).
It lives in New Guinea, on a fruitarian diet…. when available, it eats almost exclusively two species of figs.
“Lipsticks” …. Wayne Thiebaud.. oil on canvas, 1962
Not by any means the only painting he did of lipsticks.
These all look shiny and pristine…
3rd one in the back row looks to me a lot like what I used to wear, a million years ago, when I still wore lipstick. Revlon “Wine with Everything.” LOL
A painting with quite a history. I remembered some of it but I just looked it up to refresh the details. There’s more, of course, if you want to google it.
One thing it’s famous for is critics arguing over whether it contains a semi-hidden erotic image. I think now they mostly agree that it does… But I don’t know whether it’s appropriate to point it out here.
It was bought for $7,000 in the 1940s, auctioned for millions when those owners died, and has been sold several times since for historically high prices.
One famous incident, about 20 years ago, was when it belonged to Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn. He was about to sell it for over 100 million dollars, but he flamboyantly showed it to friends first, and accidentally put his elbow through it. Oops.
But he had it repaired, which costs way more than you’d think, and a few years later sold it for $155 million.
That’s still one of the highest prices ever paid for a painting. I wonder what the price would be if it had never been torn.
…you have to consider that he was 50 when he painted it, and it was 1932.
Such things would have been unheard of.
In fact, even ear piercing for women was out of fashion, considered Victorian, old world, sometimes lowlife. Mothers in the 70s were shocked by the revival of it.
As for Picasso, a lot of women saw that particular piece of equipment. He wasn’t exactly ungenerous with views and activity.
I think had.it been pierced, it would have been considered freakish… written about, and well known.
Also…
I see those lines as matching the eye on the other side of her face. He never said it was his organ, though the lower line makes it look that way.
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Similar to a Colombian Red-Bellied Grackle, but the head and eyes are wrong.
I believe that it’s a parrot.
According to search…. it’s a Pesquet’s parrot (Psittrichas fulgidus), also known as the Dracula parrot. Or the vulturine parrot (but there’s a different one in Brazil).
It lives in New Guinea, on a fruitarian diet…. when available, it eats almost exclusively two species of figs.
It’s a threatened species.
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According to Mr. Google, she is walking on the Promenade des Anglais, in Nice.. . The approaching car is a 1939 Lancia Ardia.
It may or may not be “AI enhanced”. The jury seemed to be still out.
Beautiful
Love the pre-start checks
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“Lipsticks” …. Wayne Thiebaud.. oil on canvas, 1962
Not by any means the only painting he did of lipsticks.
These all look shiny and pristine…
3rd one in the back row looks to me a lot like what I used to wear, a million years ago, when I still wore lipstick. Revlon “Wine with Everything.” LOL
Picasso
“La Reve”… “The Dream”… Jan 1932 oil on canvas
A painting with quite a history. I remembered some of it but I just looked it up to refresh the details. There’s more, of course, if you want to google it.
Pablo Picasso was 50, the model was his 22-year-old mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter. (Hey, nobody said he was a great guy.)
One thing it’s famous for is critics arguing over whether it contains a semi-hidden erotic image. I think now they mostly agree that it does… But I don’t know whether it’s appropriate to point it out here.
It was bought for $7,000 in the 1940s, auctioned for millions when those owners died, and has been sold several times since for historically high prices.
One famous incident, about 20 years ago, was when it belonged to Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn. He was about to sell it for over 100 million dollars, but he flamboyantly showed it to friends first, and accidentally put his elbow through it. Oops.
But he had it repaired, which costs way more than you’d think, and a few years later sold it for $155 million.
That’s still one of the highest prices ever paid for a painting. I wonder what the price would be if it had never been torn.
Okay, okay…. after saying that, I can’t not tell you….
Her right cheek, the one on top, is said to also be a painting of his penis lying on her face. He neither denied nor verified that description.
I don’t know,
Such things would have been unheard of.
In fact, even ear piercing for women was out of fashion, considered Victorian, old world, sometimes lowlife. Mothers in the 70s were shocked by the revival of it.
As for Picasso, a lot of women saw that particular piece of equipment. He wasn’t exactly ungenerous with views and activity.
I think had.it been pierced, it would have been considered freakish… written about, and well known.
5 fingers and a thumb on each hand.
He was a surrealist at that point… blending reality with relationships, emotions and dreams.
Maybe he saw something extra about her hands?
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Far out!
Reminds me of this one:
https://www.best-poems.net/oliver-herford/the-elf-and-the-dormouse.html
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I watched them all
And I watched almost none! Saw Beverly hillbillies, cos it started earlier, My Favorite Martian and Get Smart later in reruns.
But I didn’t have consistent access to a TV in the late 1960s, so I missed most of that whole era of goofy comedies, until 1970 or 71.
A zany comedy about a POW camp and another about a costumed young lady that always addresses a man as Master …. what a time to be alive.
I’ve seen seven of them over here, some time later, of course.
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A North English town, some time in the late 1960’s judging by the cars.
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Even the alien is shocked by a female earthling visiting an unfamiliar planet in a sheer blouse with a black bra showing through.
“My goodness, Woman… You’re planning to meet our Supreme Leader in that get-up?”
High heeled space boots. 😀
Alien sure looks appalled! And you probably noticed the illustrator created the space woman as a blond. In heels.
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Part of this maze must be missing.
I believe it’s allowed to go through the black cave segments.
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Speaking of Alaska – the Iditarod race begins in just over a week!!! Gimme eight more bassets and I’ll give it a go. (Not!)
Do they train them with a laser pointer?
Mountain Chief of Piegan Blackfeet making a phonographic record at Smithsonian. The interviewer is ethnologist Frances Densmore.
Male Hawfinch.
“Kernbeisser” in German. Figures.
sorry to inadvertently erase your comment, Susan—I should have just left the animation in the comments
Oh!
Oh well…. I have to leave, or I’d comment again. At least you know the strip got a comment.
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Hey, Cleo’s a southpaw!