Kelly’s childhood experience while attending a family picnics on Sunday afternoons embarrassed him because he thought picnics were “uncool.” The result years after is Shit Picnic (2005), a sad picnic in which there is a vacant white blanket in a...
Banksy’s satirical Picnic contrasts a group of indigenous African hunter-gatherers bewildered by the Picnic of a White middle-class urban family picnicking on the beach. The contrast between civilizations and technologies suggests irreconcilable differences...
Bridgland’s Forward, Conquer! We Have a Car and Can Picnic in the Country! Is part fun and part satire. Yet, whether Bridgland knows it or not, no other mode of transportation has boosted picnicking and helped make them ubiquitous. See Adam Bridgland. Forward,...
It is uncertain if Ackrill’s Picnic is a spinoff of pin-up art, soft porn, or sly humor. Whatever it means to be, it’s not the kind of picnic that meets traditional expectations. This picnic is a life-sized woman holding a skull and a walking staff. This allusion...
Davis’s Prometheus Bound, Prometheus Unbound, is a picnic enigma based on the Greek myth of Prometheus. The best-known versions of which are Hesiod’s Theogony (700 BCE) and Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, Prometheus Unbound, and Prometheus Fire-Bringer (415 c. BCE). None...
Talbott’s satire Cheesecake Picnic Party: A Killer Batch of Tasty Treats (2007) evokes the Hollywood film noir. It’s a satire of the so-called cheesecake images of sexy women. Featured Image: David Russell Talbott. Cheesecake Picnic Party: A Killer Batch...
Talbott’s Apple Pie Picnic is a send-up of the cliché “As American as apple pie.” Talbott jams as many icons as he can on the picnic cloth. Marilyn Monroe is on her knees next to a picnic basket, a steaming apple pie, a copy of Jack Kerouac’s...
Sirbiladze’s Drug Picnic is unpicnicky. A nightmare. See Tamuna Sirbiladze. Drug Picnic (2008). Acrylic on canvas.
Wardell Milan’s Sunday, Sitting on the Bank of Butterfly Meadow (2013) is an improvisation of Cartier-Bresson’s Sunday on the Banks of the Marne, 1938. A visual joke, yes?
Beer and apples. Featured Image: Luncheon on the Pasture, acrylic on canvas.