Woke at the National Gallery

[VladTepes]

At the National Art Gallery in Canberra, a husband and wife were staring at the portrait that had them completely confused.

The painting depicted 3 black men totally naked, sitting on a bench.
Two of the figures had black penises, but the one in the middle had a pink penis.

The curator of the gallery realised that they were having trouble interpreting the painting and offered his personal assessment.

He went on for over half an hour explaining how it depicted the sexual... emasculation of black people in a predominately white, patriarchal society. "In fact", he said, "some serious critics believe that the pink penis also reflects cultural and sociological oppression experienced by gay men in contemporary society".

After the curator left, an Aussie approached the couple and said,
"Would you like to know what the painting is really about?"

"Now why would you claim to be more of an expert than the curator of the gallery", asked the couple?

"Because I am the artist, who painted the picture," he replied.

"In fact, there are no black persons depicted at all. They're just three Aussie coal miners.
The guy in the middle went home for lunch."

[Kiwifruit]

Priceless 

[GSXKING]

We have 400 yo paintings on display at GOMA on loan from NewYork MET museum. I purchased season tickets so we can view the artworks and be filled with awe. One of the most expensive and raved about pieces is of reeds and lillypads on a pond in the artists garden. To my eye it looks like blue jelly fish in the ocean. DOH. Turns out the artist had cataracts same time he painted this scene. Open to interpretation me thinks