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 suggests sexual pleasure and death, a revision of the theme of “Et in Arcadia Ego.”
But what this has to do with picnicking is a mystery.
See Anthony Ackrill. Picnic (2008c.)