Thursday, July 27, 2023

Las Meninas y Nancy y Sluggo

[Alpha tool by me. Click for a larger view.]

Fresca said she’d like to see Nancy and friends as painted by Velázquez. I can sort of oblige. I hope they didn’t get ice cream on the canvas.

I thought Joe Brainard took care of this premise in one of his many Nancy homage/spoofs, but no, that was his Goya Nancy. And Goya Nancy still looks like Nancy, just as Brainard’s de Kooning Nancy still looks like Nancy. Nancy is indelible.

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I just remembered this one: Nancy and Gustave Doré.

Related reading
All OCA Nancy posts (Pinboard)

[This post is the kind of thing I do while waiting for news of the next indictment. I borrowed Nancy and Sluggo from their postage stamp.]

comments: 4

Fresca said...

😂 That’s just the painting I thought of too—the ice cream is a swell touch!
You are so funny and smart—thanks!

Fresca said...

PS Even the shadows fit.

Michael Leddy said...

Yes, I was excited to see how well the shadows fit. And I love the way Nancy and Sluggo seem to be stepping out of the painting.

Michael Leddy said...

And now Donald Trump is facing new charges in Florida, and the guy who drained the pool has been indicted.