Ruining Fine Art

"Good artists copy; great artists steal." – Pablo Picasso

"Adequate artists cut and paste." – Nathan O. Stringer

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Love One Another

It's an aww world after all

Treasury Secretaries Abstractly Expressed

These old dead white men never looked so good

Zany Zodiac

See your sign like you've never seen it before

Never Fine to Begin With

No artists were harmed in the making of these images

Black Coffee and Violet on a Magic Carpet Ride

You can get a lot of mileage out of one Kandinsky

The Peanut Gallery

The only allergies in here are aesthetic

Free-wheeling Charles Schwab

Howard the Purple

Tee-hee

Taft the Axeman

Father Maldivian

The Sky Warning

Lorzeno the Luckily Charmed

Pax Plumbago (1905-3776)

Behold (Barbadian Family in Leadworts)

8558

Colors Hate Russians

Friends! (Oldie Goldie Meiji)

Future Early Flight

Kurma Rox

16-6-77 (Grape Day)

Photo of the Carter family with Marcel Marceau + a few other things on Mark Tobey – Written over the Plains [1950]

Captain Mariana's Shield

Flag of the Northern Mariana Islands on Sam Gilliam – Moon Tide [2021]

Unready

Painting of Æthelred the Unready on Giuseppe Penone – Pelle di grafite - riflesso di cuprite (Skin of graphite - reflections of Cuprite) [2008]

Rootabaga Bourgeoisie

Maud and Miska Petersham frontispiece on Louise Bourgeois – Untitled [2002]

You'll Know the Pool by Its Presents

This on Jasper Johns – Near the Lagoon [2002]

Walking in the Sun

"Woman With Gold Chain on Neck Standing Near Hut" on Georgia O’Keeffe – The White Place in Sun [1943]

No Meaning

Engraving of a bull goring a bald man on Damien Hirst – Veil of Hidden Meaning [2017]

Bloomer Hunt

José Guadalupe Posada engraving on Clyfford Still – PP-53 [1959]

Killin' It

José Guadalupe Posada engraving on Julia Fish – Bloom [1989]

Electrifying!

José Guadalupe Posada engraving on Ellsworth Kelly – Tableau Vert [1952]

In the Turret (XXII)

Engraved vignette of some dudes loading a cannon on Ralston Crawford – Kewalo Close-Up [1948]

2-Buck Bridge

Reverse of $2 (silver dollar) certificate on a Bridget Riley

Farmer and Mechanic in the City

Engraved vignette on Joan Mitchell – City Landscape [1955]

Assumption

The Giving Tree, a gate to a Russian cathedral, and the ground of some Turkish hot springs on Frederick J. Brown – Milky Way [1977]

Unproblematic Futurism

A mural on a dome in the Library of Congress on Lee Krasner – Siren [1966]

Aquiline Seaside (Prophetic)

Louis-Michel le Peletier, engraving of an eagle, and Wasilly Kandinsky – Black Relationship [1924] on Maurice Denis – Ocean Coast [c. 1890s]

The Konstant Gardner

A woman from a stock photo and Super Mario Galaxy elements on Konstantin Korobov – Tenebris [2016]

Indelicate Tension

Wasilly Kandinsky – Delicate Tension No. 85 [1923] on photo by Dmitriy Ganin

Three Cheers for Wasilly!

Chester Cheetah, Chuck E. Cheese, defenestrators of Prague, and populists per Puck on Wasilly Kandinsky – Untitled (Composition with Grey Background) [1941]

On the Edge of the Sand

Shrek and a Shell Station on Edward Lear – Masada on the Dead Sea [1858] and Karl Friedrich Schinkel – The Magic Flute [1847-49]

Rad Regina

Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558–1603) on Pablo Rey – Estados Complementarios #11 [2005]

J.M. Cacophony

Nathaniel Dance-Holland – Portrait of Jeremiah Meyer, R.A. [late 1760s]; Jan Davidsz. de Heem – Fruit Still Life [1650]; postcard of Hanging Gardens in Allentown, PA [1949]; all on Alexandra Luke – Symphony [1957]