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  1. 💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🪵🧵 In a Victoria and Albert #Museum profile, #puppet maker Oliver Hymans demonstrates the #mechanics of traditional #marionette construction at #London's Little Angel #Theatre.

    With traditional string #puppetry on the #UK Red List of Endangered Crafts, Hymans shares how carved #wood, pendulums, and simple workshop experimentation shape expressive #stage figures.

    👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/endangered-mar

    #art #carving #craft #england #gravity #history #illusion #imagination #jobs #play #theater #toys #tradition #vamuseum #wood #work #woodworking #sculpture #history #design #artists #tksst #video

  2. 💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🪵🧵 In a Victoria and Albert #Museum profile, #puppet maker Oliver Hymans demonstrates the #mechanics of traditional #marionette construction at #London's Little Angel #Theatre.

    With traditional string #puppetry on the #UK Red List of Endangered Crafts, Hymans shares how carved #wood, pendulums, and simple workshop experimentation shape expressive #stage figures.

    👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/endangered-mar

    #art #carving #craft #england #gravity #history #illusion #imagination #jobs #play #theater #toys #tradition #vamuseum #wood #work #woodworking #sculpture #history #design #artists #tksst #video

  3. 💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🪵🧵 In a Victoria and Albert #Museum profile, #puppet maker Oliver Hymans demonstrates the #mechanics of traditional #marionette construction at #London's Little Angel #Theatre.

    With traditional string #puppetry on the #UK Red List of Endangered Crafts, Hymans shares how carved #wood, pendulums, and simple workshop experimentation shape expressive #stage figures.

    👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/endangered-mar

    #art #carving #craft #england #gravity #history #illusion #imagination #jobs #play #theater #toys #tradition #vamuseum #wood #work #woodworking #sculpture #history #design #artists #tksst #video

  4. 💁🏻‍♀️ NEW: 🪵🧵 In a Victoria and Albert #Museum profile, #puppet maker Oliver Hymans demonstrates the #mechanics of traditional #marionette construction at #London's Little Angel #Theatre.

    With traditional string #puppetry on the #UK Red List of Endangered Crafts, Hymans shares how carved #wood, pendulums, and simple workshop experimentation shape expressive #stage figures.

    👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/endangered-mar

    #art #carving #craft #england #gravity #history #illusion #imagination #jobs #play #theater #toys #tradition #vamuseum #wood #work #woodworking #sculpture #history #design #artists #tksst #video

  5. “The Great Works Project: Season Seven, Episode Seven – An Intermission” by Thomas Typewriter

    -----------<.thom.>----------- THE GREAT WORKS PROJECT a puppet play in many parts Season 07, Episode 07 an intermission By Thomas Typewriter (c) 2026 Jason Arcand-----------<:type:>----------- FADE IN TO BLACK From the bottom of the screen scrolls up the following text: "07-07". It moves upwards, pausing a moment in the center of the frame, then continues upward, exiting the frame at the top edge. Immediately following that text's exit, up scrolls "an intermission" from the bottom of […]

    thomastypewriter.art/2026/08/1

  6. “The Great Works Project: Season Seven, Episode Six” by Thomas Typewriter – a new script

    -----------<.thom.>----------- THE GREAT WORKS PROJECT a puppet play in many parts Season 07, Episode 06 By Thomas Typewriter (c) 2026 Jason Arcand-----------<:type:>----------- FADE IN TO BLACK From the center bottom of the frame scrolls up the following text: “07-06”. It scrolls up to the center of the frame, pauses, then continues scrolling. It exits the frame in the top center. Across the dark screen drifts the sound of TYPEWRITER KEYS CLICK CLACKING. From the bottom of the […]

    thomastypewriter.art/2026/08/0

  7. “Up Late, Late At Night: Episode Two, Act Two” – a new script by Thomas Typewriter

    -----------<.thom.ophi>----------- Up Late, Late At Night an abstract on treasure versus trash in modern film Episode 002 Act II By Thomas Typewriter & Ophidia Typewriter-Operahouse (c) 2026 Jason Arcand & Suzanne Arcand-----------<:type.house:>----------- FADE IN TO BLACK FADE IN EXT. TRUCC NUTZ HIGHWAY AND ON-RAMP, DAYTIME LS OF THE HIGHWAY AND ON-RAMP The highway stands empty. From stage-left enters a semi-truck covered in logos for KON-SATOSHI ELECTRONICS. It drives down the […]

    thomastypewriter.art/2026/07/0

  8. “The Great Works Project: Season Seven, Episode Five” by Thomas Typewriter – a new script

    -----------<.thom.>----------- THE GREAT WORKS PROJECT a puppet play in many parts Season 07, Episode 05 By Thomas Typewriter (c) 2026 Jason Arcand-----------<:type:>----------- FADE IN TO BLACK From the center bottom of the frame scrolls up the following text: “07-05”. It scrolls up to the center of the frame, pauses, then continues scrolling. It exits the frame in the top center. Across the dark screen drifts the sound of TYPEWRITER KEYS CLICK CLACKING. FADE OUTFADE IN LS OF […]

    thomastypewriter.art/2026/06/2

  9. Happy #GerryAndersonDay to all who celebrate! No strings on us!

    SIG!!

    The toys that came out of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Space 1999 made some of the very best toys a kid could have (I wish I had held onto my Space 1999 Eagle!)

    #GerryAnderson #SuperMarionation #puppet #puppetry #ScienceFiction #CaptainScarlet #Thunderbirds

  10. “The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”*…

    Claude Monet, Caricature of Léon Manchon, 1858.

    … Still, there are bills to be paid. Mathilde Montpetit (and here) on how the young Claude Monet made bank…

    At the age of fifteen, Claude Monet was, by his own account, one of the most successful artists in Le Havre. Crowds would gather in the Norman port city to gawk at the pictures he sold through a framing shop: not paintings of haystacks or of the sea or water lilies, but slightly cruel caricatures of local bigwigs and minor celebrities. He had already learned to commercialize, charging his customers 20 francs (around 200€ in today’s money). “If I had continued”, he claimed to an interviewer in Le Temps almost fifty years later, “I would have been a millionaire.”

    Spurred by profits, the young Monet was productive, creating up to seven or eight of these caricatures a day; a small collection of them is now held at the Art Institute of Chicago, most donated by the former mayor Carter Harrison IV (1860–1953). The French art historian Rodolphe Walter has claimed that his caricatures constituted a “clandestine apprenticeship”, the first attempts by a son of Le Havre’s bourgeois shipbuilders to make his way in the art world.

    The earliest are anonymous: the identities of The Man in the Small Hat or The Man with the Big Cigar are now lost, although the framing shop devotees may well have been able to name them. Some of the works are imitations, like the 1859 drawing of the French journalist August Vacquerie (1819–1895) that Monet seems to have copied from Nadar (1820–1910), probably the period’s most famous caricaturist.

    Monet’s own 1858 caricature of Léon Manchon, the treasurer of Le Havre’s Société des amis des arts, captures his subject’s appearance but also, in the background, both his love of the arts and his work as a notary. Most fantastical is the 1858 caricature of Jules Didier (1831–1914), which shows the 1857 winner of the Prix de Rome as a “Butterfly Man” being led on a leash by a dog. Monet scholars remain divided as to the symbolic meaning of the iconography, though more obviously derisive is the drawing of a dejected fellow applicant to an 1858 Le Havre art subsidy, Henri Cassinelli. Monet has captioned it “Rufus Croutinelli”: a slightly forced pun on “croute”, meaning a daub of paint. Monet didn’t receive the subsidy either.

    Sixty-year-old Monet’s claims about how he could have made his young fortune probably had more to do with his later difficulties in selling Impressionism than the actual fortunes to be made in portraits-charge, but it was the roughly 2,000 francs (20,000€) from selling these caricatures that allowed him to, against his father’s wishes, move to Paris and begin training as an artist. (He also received a pension from his wealthy aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, with whom he had been living since his mother’s death in 1857.)

    Perhaps it helped him in other ways as well. In the Le Temps interview, Monet claimed that it was while admiring his admirers at the framing shop window that he first encountered the work of his mentor Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), whose paintings were also hung there. Boudin would later take him en plein air for the first time. Perhaps, too, there’s something in the quickness of the caricature that speaks to what Impressionism would become — a desire to capture not just the literal appearance of a thing, but its true essence…

    Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)” from @mathildegm.bsky.social in @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.

    Re: the other end of Monet’s career, readers in (or visiting) the Bay Area might appreciate “Monet and Venice,” over a hundred works– mostly the fruits of Monet’s only visit to the City of Canals, but spiced with Venetian views from artists including Renoir, Sargent, and Canaletto– on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco through July 26.

    * Kurt Vonnegut

    ###

    As we cherish cartoons, we might might send pointedly-insightful birthday greetings to Peter Fluck; he was born on this date in 1941. An artist, caricaturist, and puppeteer, he was half of the partnership known as Luck and Flaw (with Roger Law), creators of the epochal British satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image.

    The show ran from 1984 through 1996. (It was revived, with a different crew, in 2020.) Here’s a BBC appreciation of the original…

    https://youtu.be/w_ks5Pb12kg?si=9a4LqrVO_CSnw-GF

    #art #caricature #ClaudeMonet #culture #history #Monet #PeterFluck #puppetry #puppets #RogerLaw #SpittingImage #television
  11. “The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”*…

    Claude Monet, Caricature of Léon Manchon, 1858.

    … Still, there are bills to be paid. Mathilde Montpetit (and here) on how the young Claude Monet made bank…

    At the age of fifteen, Claude Monet was, by his own account, one of the most successful artists in Le Havre. Crowds would gather in the Norman port city to gawk at the pictures he sold through a framing shop: not paintings of haystacks or of the sea or water lilies, but slightly cruel caricatures of local bigwigs and minor celebrities. He had already learned to commercialize, charging his customers 20 francs (around 200€ in today’s money). “If I had continued”, he claimed to an interviewer in Le Temps almost fifty years later, “I would have been a millionaire.”

    Spurred by profits, the young Monet was productive, creating up to seven or eight of these caricatures a day; a small collection of them is now held at the Art Institute of Chicago, most donated by the former mayor Carter Harrison IV (1860–1953). The French art historian Rodolphe Walter has claimed that his caricatures constituted a “clandestine apprenticeship”, the first attempts by a son of Le Havre’s bourgeois shipbuilders to make his way in the art world.

    The earliest are anonymous: the identities of The Man in the Small Hat or The Man with the Big Cigar are now lost, although the framing shop devotees may well have been able to name them. Some of the works are imitations, like the 1859 drawing of the French journalist August Vacquerie (1819–1895) that Monet seems to have copied from Nadar (1820–1910), probably the period’s most famous caricaturist.

    Monet’s own 1858 caricature of Léon Manchon, the treasurer of Le Havre’s Société des amis des arts, captures his subject’s appearance but also, in the background, both his love of the arts and his work as a notary. Most fantastical is the 1858 caricature of Jules Didier (1831–1914), which shows the 1857 winner of the Prix de Rome as a “Butterfly Man” being led on a leash by a dog. Monet scholars remain divided as to the symbolic meaning of the iconography, though more obviously derisive is the drawing of a dejected fellow applicant to an 1858 Le Havre art subsidy, Henri Cassinelli. Monet has captioned it “Rufus Croutinelli”: a slightly forced pun on “croute”, meaning a daub of paint. Monet didn’t receive the subsidy either.

    Sixty-year-old Monet’s claims about how he could have made his young fortune probably had more to do with his later difficulties in selling Impressionism than the actual fortunes to be made in portraits-charge, but it was the roughly 2,000 francs (20,000€) from selling these caricatures that allowed him to, against his father’s wishes, move to Paris and begin training as an artist. (He also received a pension from his wealthy aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, with whom he had been living since his mother’s death in 1857.)

    Perhaps it helped him in other ways as well. In the Le Temps interview, Monet claimed that it was while admiring his admirers at the framing shop window that he first encountered the work of his mentor Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), whose paintings were also hung there. Boudin would later take him en plein air for the first time. Perhaps, too, there’s something in the quickness of the caricature that speaks to what Impressionism would become — a desire to capture not just the literal appearance of a thing, but its true essence…

    Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)” from @mathildegm.bsky.social in @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.

    Re: the other end of Monet’s career, readers in (or visiting) the Bay Area might appreciate “Monet and Venice,” over a hundred works– mostly the fruits of Monet’s only visit to the City of Canals, but spiced with Venetian views from artists including Renoir, Sargent, and Canaletto– on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco through July 26.

    * Kurt Vonnegut

    ###

    As we cherish cartoons, we might might send pointedly-insightful birthday greetings to Peter Fluck; he was born on this date in 1941. An artist, caricaturist, and puppeteer, he was half of the partnership known as Luck and Flaw (with Roger Law), creators of the epochal British satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image.

    The show ran from 1984 through 1996. (It was revived, with a different crew, in 2020.) Here’s a BBC appreciation of the original…

    https://youtu.be/w_ks5Pb12kg?si=9a4LqrVO_CSnw-GF

    #art #caricature #ClaudeMonet #culture #history #Monet #PeterFluck #puppetry #puppets #RogerLaw #SpittingImage #television
  12. “The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”*…

    Claude Monet, Caricature of Léon Manchon, 1858.

    … Still, there are bills to be paid. Mathilde Montpetit (and here) on how the young Claude Monet made bank…

    At the age of fifteen, Claude Monet was, by his own account, one of the most successful artists in Le Havre. Crowds would gather in the Norman port city to gawk at the pictures he sold through a framing shop: not paintings of haystacks or of the sea or water lilies, but slightly cruel caricatures of local bigwigs and minor celebrities. He had already learned to commercialize, charging his customers 20 francs (around 200€ in today’s money). “If I had continued”, he claimed to an interviewer in Le Temps almost fifty years later, “I would have been a millionaire.”

    Spurred by profits, the young Monet was productive, creating up to seven or eight of these caricatures a day; a small collection of them is now held at the Art Institute of Chicago, most donated by the former mayor Carter Harrison IV (1860–1953). The French art historian Rodolphe Walter has claimed that his caricatures constituted a “clandestine apprenticeship”, the first attempts by a son of Le Havre’s bourgeois shipbuilders to make his way in the art world.

    The earliest are anonymous: the identities of The Man in the Small Hat or The Man with the Big Cigar are now lost, although the framing shop devotees may well have been able to name them. Some of the works are imitations, like the 1859 drawing of the French journalist August Vacquerie (1819–1895) that Monet seems to have copied from Nadar (1820–1910), probably the period’s most famous caricaturist.

    Monet’s own 1858 caricature of Léon Manchon, the treasurer of Le Havre’s Société des amis des arts, captures his subject’s appearance but also, in the background, both his love of the arts and his work as a notary. Most fantastical is the 1858 caricature of Jules Didier (1831–1914), which shows the 1857 winner of the Prix de Rome as a “Butterfly Man” being led on a leash by a dog. Monet scholars remain divided as to the symbolic meaning of the iconography, though more obviously derisive is the drawing of a dejected fellow applicant to an 1858 Le Havre art subsidy, Henri Cassinelli. Monet has captioned it “Rufus Croutinelli”: a slightly forced pun on “croute”, meaning a daub of paint. Monet didn’t receive the subsidy either.

    Sixty-year-old Monet’s claims about how he could have made his young fortune probably had more to do with his later difficulties in selling Impressionism than the actual fortunes to be made in portraits-charge, but it was the roughly 2,000 francs (20,000€) from selling these caricatures that allowed him to, against his father’s wishes, move to Paris and begin training as an artist. (He also received a pension from his wealthy aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, with whom he had been living since his mother’s death in 1857.)

    Perhaps it helped him in other ways as well. In the Le Temps interview, Monet claimed that it was while admiring his admirers at the framing shop window that he first encountered the work of his mentor Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), whose paintings were also hung there. Boudin would later take him en plein air for the first time. Perhaps, too, there’s something in the quickness of the caricature that speaks to what Impressionism would become — a desire to capture not just the literal appearance of a thing, but its true essence…

    Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)” from @mathildegm.bsky.social in @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.

    Re: the other end of Monet’s career, readers in (or visiting) the Bay Area might appreciate “Monet and Venice,” over a hundred works– mostly the fruits of Monet’s only visit to the City of Canals, but spiced with Venetian views from artists including Renoir, Sargent, and Canaletto– on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco through July 26.

    * Kurt Vonnegut

    ###

    As we cherish cartoons, we might might send pointedly-insightful birthday greetings to Peter Fluck; he was born on this date in 1941. An artist, caricaturist, and puppeteer, he was half of the partnership known as Luck and Flaw (with Roger Law), creators of the epochal British satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image.

    The show ran from 1984 through 1996. (It was revived, with a different crew, in 2020.) Here’s a BBC appreciation of the original…

    https://youtu.be/w_ks5Pb12kg?si=9a4LqrVO_CSnw-GF

    #art #caricature #ClaudeMonet #culture #history #Monet #PeterFluck #puppetry #puppets #RogerLaw #SpittingImage #television
  13. “The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”*…

    Claude Monet, Caricature of Léon Manchon, 1858.

    … Still, there are bills to be paid. Mathilde Montpetit (and here) on how the young Claude Monet made bank…

    At the age of fifteen, Claude Monet was, by his own account, one of the most successful artists in Le Havre. Crowds would gather in the Norman port city to gawk at the pictures he sold through a framing shop: not paintings of haystacks or of the sea or water lilies, but slightly cruel caricatures of local bigwigs and minor celebrities. He had already learned to commercialize, charging his customers 20 francs (around 200€ in today’s money). “If I had continued”, he claimed to an interviewer in Le Temps almost fifty years later, “I would have been a millionaire.”

    Spurred by profits, the young Monet was productive, creating up to seven or eight of these caricatures a day; a small collection of them is now held at the Art Institute of Chicago, most donated by the former mayor Carter Harrison IV (1860–1953). The French art historian Rodolphe Walter has claimed that his caricatures constituted a “clandestine apprenticeship”, the first attempts by a son of Le Havre’s bourgeois shipbuilders to make his way in the art world.

    The earliest are anonymous: the identities of The Man in the Small Hat or The Man with the Big Cigar are now lost, although the framing shop devotees may well have been able to name them. Some of the works are imitations, like the 1859 drawing of the French journalist August Vacquerie (1819–1895) that Monet seems to have copied from Nadar (1820–1910), probably the period’s most famous caricaturist.

    Monet’s own 1858 caricature of Léon Manchon, the treasurer of Le Havre’s Société des amis des arts, captures his subject’s appearance but also, in the background, both his love of the arts and his work as a notary. Most fantastical is the 1858 caricature of Jules Didier (1831–1914), which shows the 1857 winner of the Prix de Rome as a “Butterfly Man” being led on a leash by a dog. Monet scholars remain divided as to the symbolic meaning of the iconography, though more obviously derisive is the drawing of a dejected fellow applicant to an 1858 Le Havre art subsidy, Henri Cassinelli. Monet has captioned it “Rufus Croutinelli”: a slightly forced pun on “croute”, meaning a daub of paint. Monet didn’t receive the subsidy either.

    Sixty-year-old Monet’s claims about how he could have made his young fortune probably had more to do with his later difficulties in selling Impressionism than the actual fortunes to be made in portraits-charge, but it was the roughly 2,000 francs (20,000€) from selling these caricatures that allowed him to, against his father’s wishes, move to Paris and begin training as an artist. (He also received a pension from his wealthy aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, with whom he had been living since his mother’s death in 1857.)

    Perhaps it helped him in other ways as well. In the Le Temps interview, Monet claimed that it was while admiring his admirers at the framing shop window that he first encountered the work of his mentor Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), whose paintings were also hung there. Boudin would later take him en plein air for the first time. Perhaps, too, there’s something in the quickness of the caricature that speaks to what Impressionism would become — a desire to capture not just the literal appearance of a thing, but its true essence…

    Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)” from @mathildegm.bsky.social in @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.

    Re: the other end of Monet’s career, readers in (or visiting) the Bay Area might appreciate “Monet and Venice,” over a hundred works– mostly the fruits of Monet’s only visit to the City of Canals, but spiced with Venetian views from artists including Renoir, Sargent, and Canaletto– on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco through July 26.

    * Kurt Vonnegut

    ###

    As we cherish cartoons, we might might send pointedly-insightful birthday greetings to Peter Fluck; he was born on this date in 1941. An artist, caricaturist, and puppeteer, he was half of the partnership known as Luck and Flaw (with Roger Law), creators of the epochal British satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image.

    The show ran from 1984 through 1996. (It was revived, with a different crew, in 2020.) Here’s a BBC appreciation of the original…

    https://youtu.be/w_ks5Pb12kg?si=9a4LqrVO_CSnw-GF

    #art #caricature #ClaudeMonet #culture #history #Monet #PeterFluck #puppetry #puppets #RogerLaw #SpittingImage #television
  14. “The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”*…

    Claude Monet, Caricature of Léon Manchon, 1858.

    … Still, there are bills to be paid. Mathilde Montpetit (and here) on how the young Claude Monet made bank…

    At the age of fifteen, Claude Monet was, by his own account, one of the most successful artists in Le Havre. Crowds would gather in the Norman port city to gawk at the pictures he sold through a framing shop: not paintings of haystacks or of the sea or water lilies, but slightly cruel caricatures of local bigwigs and minor celebrities. He had already learned to commercialize, charging his customers 20 francs (around 200€ in today’s money). “If I had continued”, he claimed to an interviewer in Le Temps almost fifty years later, “I would have been a millionaire.”

    Spurred by profits, the young Monet was productive, creating up to seven or eight of these caricatures a day; a small collection of them is now held at the Art Institute of Chicago, most donated by the former mayor Carter Harrison IV (1860–1953). The French art historian Rodolphe Walter has claimed that his caricatures constituted a “clandestine apprenticeship”, the first attempts by a son of Le Havre’s bourgeois shipbuilders to make his way in the art world.

    The earliest are anonymous: the identities of The Man in the Small Hat or The Man with the Big Cigar are now lost, although the framing shop devotees may well have been able to name them. Some of the works are imitations, like the 1859 drawing of the French journalist August Vacquerie (1819–1895) that Monet seems to have copied from Nadar (1820–1910), probably the period’s most famous caricaturist.

    Monet’s own 1858 caricature of Léon Manchon, the treasurer of Le Havre’s Société des amis des arts, captures his subject’s appearance but also, in the background, both his love of the arts and his work as a notary. Most fantastical is the 1858 caricature of Jules Didier (1831–1914), which shows the 1857 winner of the Prix de Rome as a “Butterfly Man” being led on a leash by a dog. Monet scholars remain divided as to the symbolic meaning of the iconography, though more obviously derisive is the drawing of a dejected fellow applicant to an 1858 Le Havre art subsidy, Henri Cassinelli. Monet has captioned it “Rufus Croutinelli”: a slightly forced pun on “croute”, meaning a daub of paint. Monet didn’t receive the subsidy either.

    Sixty-year-old Monet’s claims about how he could have made his young fortune probably had more to do with his later difficulties in selling Impressionism than the actual fortunes to be made in portraits-charge, but it was the roughly 2,000 francs (20,000€) from selling these caricatures that allowed him to, against his father’s wishes, move to Paris and begin training as an artist. (He also received a pension from his wealthy aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre, with whom he had been living since his mother’s death in 1857.)

    Perhaps it helped him in other ways as well. In the Le Temps interview, Monet claimed that it was while admiring his admirers at the framing shop window that he first encountered the work of his mentor Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), whose paintings were also hung there. Boudin would later take him en plein air for the first time. Perhaps, too, there’s something in the quickness of the caricature that speaks to what Impressionism would become — a desire to capture not just the literal appearance of a thing, but its true essence…

    Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)” from @mathildegm.bsky.social in @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.

    Re: the other end of Monet’s career, readers in (or visiting) the Bay Area might appreciate “Monet and Venice,” over a hundred works– mostly the fruits of Monet’s only visit to the City of Canals, but spiced with Venetian views from artists including Renoir, Sargent, and Canaletto– on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco through July 26.

    * Kurt Vonnegut

    ###

    As we cherish cartoons, we might might send pointedly-insightful birthday greetings to Peter Fluck; he was born on this date in 1941. An artist, caricaturist, and puppeteer, he was half of the partnership known as Luck and Flaw (with Roger Law), creators of the epochal British satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image.

    The show ran from 1984 through 1996. (It was revived, with a different crew, in 2020.) Here’s a BBC appreciation of the original…

    https://youtu.be/w_ks5Pb12kg?si=9a4LqrVO_CSnw-GF

    #art #caricature #ClaudeMonet #culture #history #Monet #PeterFluck #puppetry #puppets #RogerLaw #SpittingImage #television
  15. More rare Spitting Image footage from 1987.
    Spitting Image puppets of John Gielgud ( voiced by Chris Barrie ) & Laurence Olivier ( voiced by John Sessions ).
    youtube.com/watch?v=3mkTLNlcP4
    #SpittingImage #SpittingImagePuppets #RogerLaw #satire #parody #caricature #puppetry

  16. More rare Spitting Image footage from 1987.
    Spitting Image puppets of John Gielgud ( voiced by Chris Barrie ) & Laurence Olivier ( voiced by John Sessions ).
    youtube.com/watch?v=3mkTLNlcP4
    #SpittingImage #SpittingImagePuppets #RogerLaw #satire #parody #caricature #puppetry

  17. Is the Spitting Image Queen puppet now banned ? SAVE SPITTING IMAGE ! KEEP HER IN ! Leave the original show alone ! Especially this sketch ! 🤣 youtube.com/watch?v=ZYqdfzNxiJ If anything, RELEASE ALL THE EPISODES, SPECIALS, etc ON DVD ! mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/itv-lo #SpittingImage #puppetry #SpittingImagePuppets #RogerLaw

  18. Is the Spitting Image Queen puppet now banned ? SAVE SPITTING IMAGE ! KEEP HER IN ! Leave the original show alone ! Especially this sketch ! 🤣 youtube.com/watch?v=ZYqdfzNxiJ If anything, RELEASE ALL THE EPISODES, SPECIALS, etc ON DVD ! mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/itv-lo #SpittingImage #puppetry #SpittingImagePuppets #RogerLaw

  19. Ye Olde Spitting Image ( 1995 )
    Not only the Spitting Image New Year's special but the final specials & one of the final projects before Spitting Image Productions shut down around the mid late 1990s.
    youtube.com/watch?v=JhYKm2wCQH
    #SpittingImage #SpittingImagePuppets #RogerLaw #satire #parody #caricature #puppetry

  20. Ye Olde Spitting Image ( 1995 )
    Not only the Spitting Image New Year's special but the final specials & one of the final projects before Spitting Image Productions shut down around the mid late 1990s.
    youtube.com/watch?v=JhYKm2wCQH
    #SpittingImage #SpittingImagePuppets #RogerLaw #satire #parody #caricature #puppetry