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...Fauves were followed by the Cubists, led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who deconstructed the basic sphere, cylinder, cone and cube that learner artists were set to copy. They broke apart these simple solids to construct ambiguous images that appear to emerge from the canvas or flatten out like a collapsing card-house. Their rather dry theories were gleefully hijacked by others and transformed into still lives, portraits, street and café scenes. Cubist angles form the background to Russian Marc Chagall's Paris through the Window of 1913 and even become a pair of frilly panties in Italian...
...ultimately stayed there because her music has remained interesting and memorable. “Like a Virgin” might not work so well if Madonna were to release it today, but it’s ludicrous to argue that her success is due to a cone bra, cowboy hat or kimono...
...catch up using the "Zippy Annual," (Fantagraphics Books; 144pp.; $19.95). The 2001 edition appeared late last year and includes over three hundred daily and Sunday color strips. Most feature Zippy, a polka-dotted-muu-muu-wearing jester with a head in the shape of a soft-serve ice-cream cone. Having his brain squeezed into such a tiny space grants Zippy a kind of American culture satori - he exists entirely in the moment - instantly obsessed with whatever trend or object passes in front of him. (He will even turn phrases such as "Diflucan Fluconazole," or "Quilted Crystal Jelly Jars," into...
...Zippy Annual" has a large section dedicated to a series of strips about Zippy interacting with roadside novelty sculpture and diner architecture. Each one features a different giant-sized muffler man or androgynous ice-cream cone creature found at real places around the country. Essentially, Griffith uses the strip as an excuse to draw things he loves three time over - once per panel. A comparison to Warhol, who also loved repetition, commercial art and pop culture, feels natural. This way "Zippy" single-handedly appropriates Pop Art into the comics page the way the comics page got appropriated into...
...time I deep-throated the cone...