The range to celebrate Van Gogh features sunflowers aplenty, on socks, scarfs, and in packs of seeds, as well as jigsaw, postcard and print mementoes of his best-known self-portraits.
Ooh, I do love overpriced museum tat!
...a £6 eraser in the shape of an ear...
An eraser? Who uses pencils these days?
Apart from the eraser ear, visitors can buy a £5 bar of soap, marketed as ideal for “the tortured artist who enjoys fluffy bubbles”. An “emotional first aid kit”, priced at £16, is described as “a box of wise emergency advice for 20 key psychological situations”. Some have been left distinctly unimpressed at the attempt at humour.
Oh, of course. Here come the snowflakes!
Charles Thomson, a co-founder of the Stuckist group of artists, said: “Suicide is not a joke and mental illness is not a joke.”
“This is shallow, nasty and insensitive,” he told the Mail on Sunday. “What next? Van Gogh’s suicide pistol?”'Tarquin, why didn't you think of this!?'
4 comments:
And his sunflowers are all yellow.
Where is the diversity?
I use pencils. And erasers.
I've solved it for you Doonhammer. We're all sunflowers, yellow on the outside but black on the inside.
"And his sunflowers are all yellow.
Where is the diversity?"
Now there'll be a campaign to insert some Black Eyed Susans!
"I use pencils. And erasers."
Are you an architect?
"We're all sunflowers, yellow on the outside but black on the inside."
😉
Post a Comment