Saturday, November 16, 2013

Save Wall Space with this Wonderful Mash-up!


Let's face it, wall space is a premium in a well decorated home (or at least you probably think this is true if you shop at antique stores).  This forces us to make tough decisions: formal family portrait or cat painting?  Well, the solution to all your problems is here: the formal family portrait of a cat family.  Yes, you  too can simultaneously enjoy 19th century formality and 21st century love for semi-domesticated felines that seem to harbor murderous feelings for us with this wonderful oil on canvas.  I was a bit too timid to move all of the treasures in this booth around to find the price of this piece of art, but I assume it is the combined cost of both a 19th century family portrait and a whimsical cat painting...so we'll call it an even $500.  Now if only I could find those dogs playing poker...

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Baboon Taxidermy or The World's Least Dangerous Ape


Well, honestly, I've seen taxidermy at antique stores before (including this one).  They're often deer heads and even an occasional beaver.  Yet, sometimes the occasional slain ruminant isn't enough to prove to your guests that you're a real man.  You need something a little more exotic; something that says "I kill closely related apes".  Well, here it is: a stuffed baboon.  Tell your friends you went on a weekend safari and killed the world's least dangerous ape.  You know they'll respect you more for it.

Friday, February 22, 2013

The Pegasus and the Babe


Looking for the right accent piece to hang above your drawing-room mantle or 1970s coffee table that you place Dungeon and Dragons on in your mom's basement?  Well, here it is!  This stunning oil on velvet is hung taut across a chic neo-gothic frame that will match any furniture your parents bought in the 1970s or you dug out of the trash of your local Salvation Army.

There are few creatures more majestic than the horse: a symbol of freedom that men and women both swoon over.  Yet, a WINGED horse is indeed even more majestic than the relatively commonplace and mundane flightless horse.  Rearing up and preparing for flight, this Pegasus screams to your house guests "I LOVE FREEDOM!" and "FLYING RULES!" and "I SHOP AT FLEA MARKETS!".

Is there anything more beautiful than a winged horse?  Well, yes, a hot babe.  Is there anything more beautiful than a hot babe? Well, yes, a NAKED hot babe!  A lesser artist would be unable to create a balance in a painting of a Pegasus, as there is hardly a more beautiful sight.  But by counterbalancing the majestic winged-pony with a radiant and totally nude babe, the viewers eye is forced to take in the entirety of the beauty, rather than to focus on a single beautiful object.

Yet, the painting is far more than a stunning and beautiful piece of fine art; it is also contains a deep symbolic meaning as the beauty offers up her flower to the Olympian steed: a meaning so clear that it needs no explanation.

Can you put a price on this one of a kind masterpiece?  Yes, $58.