[Sam Cree]

"Don't forget Elvis on Black Velvet and dogs playing poker."

I actually kind of like the dogs playing poker, for their irreverance toward Art with a capital A. Not that the Bernini doesn't deserve the capital A, it deserves everything.

But I've come up with a new classification for some art, it occurred to me at an art fair in Ocala while lookins at some ghastly glass and painted little corny statues. I was calling it rifle range art, anything that would be fun to take to the range and use for target practice.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Rifle Range Art would cover a lot of work. Especially anything by Andy Warhol (sp).

[Joe 6-pack]

My primary mentor in college was an ethnically Greek art professor who dabbled in illumination, but whose primary passion was religious icons. He would crank out pieces of art that look like they were looted from Balkan monastaries...

One of the poplar panels he was aging warped and rather than discard it, he went ahead and did an Elvis icon...complete with gold leaf background. It was so technically perfect and yet so anomalous that the overall effect was hilarious.

I've always been fond of the dog paintings...but then I've always been a dog guy.

[Liz]

......Rifle Range Art----anything that would be fun to take to the range and use for target practice....

Clever, very clever.......would make a fun thread.