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February 19th, 2006

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Sunday, February 19th, 2006 06:25 pm
I was talking to [livejournal.com profile] wormwood_pearl about the artistic skills, or lack thereof, of Johnny Stormonth-Darling, the twisted mind behind Rob the Dog and Tony the Pony. Weegies will know what I'm talking about: everyone else can click here and scroll down to the back page for a sample.
"He'll probably crop up again in five or ten years and turn out to be incredibly talented," she opined.
"Yeah. Did you know that Edvard Munch's juvenilia was almost photorealistic? There's a self portrait of him at nineteen that's just incredibly accurate and detailed [Ed. note: it looks a lot more impressive close to]. It was only later that he got into Expressionism."
"Expressionism?"
"Yeah, you know, The Scream, The Kiss..."
It turned out that I'd merely thought I'd said Edvard Munch. She'd heard it as Edward Monkton. Which led me to think about what a hybrid of the two might have created...

The Expressionist Thoughts of Edvard Munchton )

Incidentally, I've read that "Edward Monkton" is in fact another alias of Giles Andreae, aka Purple Ronnie... I've emailed him a link to these, in the hope that he finds them amusing and doesn't try to sue me. Anyway, the art of Edward Monkton and Edvard Munch is entirely the property of people who aren't me (Monkton and Munch's estate, presumably), and these drawings are in no way endorsed by either.

Extra bonus link: The list of 412 ways in which the Penguin of Death can kill you.

[Info about Munch's art comes from my trip to the Munch Museum in Oslo. Go, it's fantastic. And the Viking Ship Museum is pretty cool too. But don't bother with Grieg's cottage. Info about Munch's life comes from Jad Adams' excellent book Hideous Absinthe, which is also highly recommended.]