"W/ Extra Duck"

July 1, 2008 9:11 AM

Paintings... with ducks added.
posted by Ms. Saint (31 comments total)

Does what it says on the tin. Awesome.
posted by Lentrohamsanin at 9:20 AM on July 1, 2008

My favorite (so far).
posted by rtha at 9:21 AM on July 1, 2008

So... Alan Moore was right after all?
posted by Iosephus at 9:27 AM on July 1, 2008

My 3-year old has a series of UK kids books called Usborne Family Tales, in which the artist embeds a duck somewhere on each page. Is there some kind of underground trend starting here? If so, sounds delicious.
posted by adamms222 at 9:29 AM on July 1, 2008

Rubber ducky
You're the one
You make Art History
So much fun
posted by BitterOldPunk at 9:35 AM on July 1, 2008 [4 favorites]

Why a duck?
Why a no chicken?
posted by Floydd at 9:43 AM on July 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

I wonder if zefrank had anything to do with this....
posted by samsara at 9:45 AM on July 1, 2008

At first, I thought, "What the duck?" Then I quacked up.
posted by not_on_display at 9:45 AM on July 1, 2008

This is not best of the web. Not even best of the webbed foot.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 9:49 AM on July 1, 2008

From the main view I though the Bosch was an Ernie Barnes and I was fully prepared to laugh my ass off. Alas no, but sometimes you're forced to take matters into your own hands.
posted by cashman at 9:49 AM on July 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

Such a simple idea, yet so delightful. I'm not even sure why I like these so much.
posted by Slack-a-gogo at 9:56 AM on July 1, 2008

I like these. Though with the some of the religious ones, I think I would have opted to add a devil duckie instead.

And for the record, I find that almost anything "...with ducks added" will be better as a result.

This is because ducks are made out of pure awesome.
posted by quin at 10:05 AM on July 1, 2008

Hooray!
posted by soundofsuburbia at 10:08 AM on July 1, 2008

Why a duck?
Why a no chicken?

Quack!
posted by aftermarketradio at 10:10 AM on July 1, 2008

Bird with birds
posted by aftermarketradio at 10:14 AM on July 1, 2008

With the state of post-millennial art in its current, tattered form, simultaneously supremely vigorous and dull as dishwater, it's not unusual for viewers, critics, and artists alike to look to the past for recontextualization. This collection of items from a broad swath of art history is a fine primer, as it includes a selection that's tailor-made to provide a data point (or ur-impression as it were) that can allow even the most amateur critic to look at today's works in a new light. Also, there are duckies. little yellow duckies.
posted by beaucoupkevin at 10:24 AM on July 1, 2008

So... Alan Moore was right after all?

If they weren't doing anything wrong, we wouldn't be shooting them.
posted by louche mustachio at 10:28 AM on July 1, 2008

Every time they put three ducks into a painting... they should add a goose.
posted by miss lynnster at 10:58 AM on July 1, 2008 [2 favorites]

Dammit... TWO ducks, not three. My poor math skills fucked up my own stupid joke!
posted by miss lynnster at 10:59 AM on July 1, 2008 [2 favorites]

More about ducks.
posted by Mister_A at 11:01 AM on July 1, 2008

Every time they put three ducks into a painting... they should add a goose.
Or maybe a Gray Duck.
posted by Floydd at 11:09 AM on July 1, 2008

Or an extra sea turtle
posted by jeffburdges at 11:21 AM on July 1, 2008

Or a brilliante film
posted by johannahdeschanel at 11:31 AM on July 1, 2008

I like the subtlety and color choice of this one.
posted by rmless at 11:53 AM on July 1, 2008

Samsara, Ze Frank was my first thought as well. Oh, how I miss his vidcast.
posted by monocultured at 12:16 PM on July 1, 2008

Dammit... TWO ducks, not three.

You're not alone.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 12:39 PM on July 1, 2008

Floydd may not have won this thread, but he's in the lead. (Hint: think Marx Bros.)
posted by JHarris at 1:19 PM on July 1, 2008

Why a duck?
Why a no chicken?

I don't know why a chicken, I'm a stranger here myself. You try crossing over there with a chicken, and you'll find out viaduct.
posted by Seekerofsplendor at 1:29 PM on July 1, 2008

I'd like to see the same thing but with dildoes and classic baseball photographs rather than stupid-ass old paintings.
posted by zzazazz at 3:24 PM on July 1, 2008

Who likes the little little duckies in the pond? I do, I do, I do, a-chicka quack quack!
posted by danb at 3:25 PM on July 1, 2008

More ducks: the art of Kaj Stenvall.
Saw some of those in an exhibition: amazing.
posted by _dario at 6:03 PM on July 1, 2008