Among the blue shirt and white jacket set, he wore high-fashion suits and loud ties, and was known for his garrulous, joking nature.
Religion, in Huck's mouth, melts to a joke, and nature, heedless and carefree, takes over the canvas.
The fact that my wife could crack sci-fi jokes during nature's most hi-fi pain experience is a testament to the sheer unnatural power of her chosen analgesic.
Jokes of Nature is at RedLine in Denver through October 25 , 2015
In that spirit, the group show Jokes of Nature examines the connotations and manifestations of the grotesque as a contemporary aesthetic and societal expression of irony, fantasy, fear, and fascination.
Reflecting the spectrum of this trend, in Jokes of Nature we see Paul McCarthy, a veritable patron saint of visceral horror, whose pioneering work in sculpture and performance freaked out a whole generation, and Louise Bourgeois, whose ominous and sexualized feminist images and objects disrupted the whole narrative of polite modernism in the 20th century.
Reflecting the spectrum of this trend, in Jokes of Nature we see Paul McCarthy, a veritable patron saint of visceral horror, whose pioneering work in sculpture and performance freaked out a whole generation, and Louise Bourgeois, whose ominous and sexualised feminist images and objects disrupted the whole narrative of polite modernism in the 20th century.
Now that only us over-50s are here, LBL will talk turkey to you: Items 6 and 7 are cosmic jokes of nature, perpetrated on an innocent population who never did anything bad to anybody and who was nice to her mother (except for going away to college when her mother wanted her to attend a college in Philly so she could live at home).
All kidding aside, being able to laugh at nature's little joke on us, in the company of old friends, is one of life's great blessings.
James Ireland's knock-off landscape, "All of the Known Universe," is a room-size joke on oldtime nature paintings.
