The Pictorial Arts: Just a Little Idea

Friday, April 13, 2012

Just a Little Idea

Speaking of Leonardo, that Vinci guy, here he be paintin' the saint.

Rowland B. Wilson — Playboy cartoon

'70s/'80s, somewhere in there

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: That's a lot like that Charles Addams cartoon of the same scene, except the person is holding up a Mondrian painting and Leonardo says, "Oh, just something I was messing with."; April 14, 2012 at 6:52 AM
Thomas Haller Buchanan said...: Ha, yes, there are a number of variations of that joke by a number of cartoonists. Rowland Wilson did another Leonardo cartoon with a joke about a bicycle. Charles Addams also had Leonardo selling his paintings at a sidewalk sale in Manhattan.; April 14, 2012 at 8:43 AM
Pyracantha said...: Leonardo was left-handed!; April 14, 2012 at 11:28 PM
Yves Ker Ambrun said...: Wonderful! Everything's astonishingly just right.; April 19, 2012 at 12:30 AM

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