art

An eight-panel SMBC comic. A bespectacled teacher asks an art class, 'So, everyone, why are you interested in art?' A red-haired woman answers 'Beauty!' and a man with rainbow hair answers 'Self-expression!' A brown-haired man instead launches into history: 'In 1541, Michelangelo completed Il Giudizio Universale. In that time, he had an enemy named Biagio da Cesena, who was opposed to nudity in paintings. So when Michelangelo was drawing the character who admits people into hell, he drew it to look like Cesena, but with donkey ears and a snake biting his dick. This is on an entire wall at the Sistine Chapel. It will stand for eternity. Just imagine it.' The teacher, taken aback, says 'So... you're interested in art because...' and the man finishes: 'I want to specialize in drawing my ex.' The joke: he wants to use art to immortalize revenge against an ex, like Michelangelo did to his rival. In the votey, a roughly sketched woman's face has two speech bubbles asking, 'Abstractly, or...' and 'Photorealistic,' implying she's eager to commission such a portrait.