Motley’s A rooftop party is a variation of a tar beach picnic. Couples are sitting at tables eating and drinking. Good spirits prevail. Motley’s typical attitude and his paintings invariable show African Americans happy in a world of easy living....
Plath’s “The Colossus” is specifically a jab at her dead father, Otto Plath, less clear an allusion to her husband, Ted Hughes. She had a stormy and pathological relationship with her long-dead Daddy, “Thirty years now I have labored,”...
According to Spark, Brodie might take the girls out for a lesson en plein aire in the Marcia Blaine school garden. It was a lesson and not a picnic. According to Ronald Neame’s film adaptation, there is a picnic sequence that is intended to be a recognition of...
Grass’s mordant picnic satire describes five dwarfs, all Nazis, all entertainers in Bebra’s “Theater at the Front,” gathering for a picnic feast on a beach in Normandy. The irony of pleasure is lost on them. Living in the present, Oskar and his friends are happy to...
Hanna and Barbera celebrate the adventures of Yogi Bear, living in Jellystone Park, who loves to steal “pic-a-nic” baskets. Yogi’s accomplice BooBoo, a bear cub, helps loot baskets from tourists. Yogi and BooBoo love sandwiches, sausages, cakes,...
There is a picnic in Terrence Young’s From Russia With Love (1963) but not in Ian Fleming’s novel. It’s inconsequential, shaken, but not stirred. See Terrence Young. From Russia With Love (1963). The screenplay by Richard Malbaum and Joanna Harwood is based on Ian...
A Place in the Country” and “The Picnic” illustrate the before and after of an affair. About ten years after they have ended their affair, Clem and Nettie, a girl, meet at Clem’s country place, attending a picnic set up by Clem’s wife...
Hemingway’s “Scott Fitzgerald” in A Moveable Feast recounts their sudden friendship. Among his anecdotes is their picnic on a drive from Lyons to Paris in 1925. Hemingway was uneasy with Fitzgerald’s character peculiarities, especially his...
Among Picasso’s many unappealing variations of Manet’s Le dejeuner sur l’herbe is a large sculpture of disunited figures. Great blobs of concrete, ironically, sitting on the grass. But there is no lunch, no food, no picnic. Featured Image: Carl Nesjar Pablo Picasso’s...
On a Sunday in August, Commander Caractacus Pott announces Mimsie, the mother, Jemima and Jeremy, eight-year-old twins: “Today is going to be a roaster,” he said, “a scorcher. There’s only one thing to do, and that’s for us to take a...
