So here’s a fun idea; name the painting. I had a few titles in mind, but lost track of what might be funny here while making sure the banana was just the right bold yellow.
Rene Magritte used to have friends over to the house (and drink absinthe while arguing French politics) to name whatever came out of the studio. I think that the best captions sometimes come from outside the artist’s head and that there’s a really good reason to believe words and pictures are collaborative.
Best title for the painting gets to own it. This was great fun to make, but I’ve got a hard enough time convincing my wife we need all this Captain America stuff around the house.
“Is this a banana which I see before me?” or even “Alas poor Skeletor I knew him He-Man”
“I Shall Name Him Chiquitor!”
“Orange You Glad I Stopped Saying Skeletor?”
“Despot-assium”
“Two Bones.”
Still Life With Skeletor
how about “Master-bater of the Universe”? – the hand and bananna have a phallic, handjobian feel (not to mention the testicly-placed oranges)
Bobby, i like “Two Bones”. Or, “Sometimes a Banana Is Just a Banana”.
PEEL before Skeletor!
“Now That’s a first…Usually Skeletor is holding his Banana!”
Man, this was fun! The “name the painting” thing was really just a last minute lark of an idea, but it’s provided as lot of laughs all week long. We’ll definitely have to try this again in the coming weeks.
So there were quite a lot of suggestions here, and quite a few made to me discreetly through Facebook where people felt more comfortably smutty. Originally, there was a peeled condom wrapper in the composition, but the joke seems to have carried off without it.
@Mike -Too Shakespearean, but not out of the realm of possibility for future paintings. It makes me wish I done “He-Man Hamlet”.
@Bobby -”Despot-tassium” was great and my favorite of the lot, buddy. But then you pulled out the “orange you glad..” chestnut! Great stuff.
@Jeannie -See, I know Jeannie and she’s sandbagging here, playing to the more obvious while the rest of you go for the big gag. That was the working title for a long time, but I wanted to get something more banal going in there as well. Something like “Skeletorr and the He-Man Collection at Ikea; Masters of the Homestyle Universe.” Too wordy of course, but you hit it closer to the head.
@Pat – “Master-bater” jokes came up a lot in my Facebook mailbox. But “handjobian”? That’s my new word for the month! I just got to figure out how to use it properly in a sentence.
@Juana -”Sometimes a Banana Is just a Banana” is classic. But I think we should save that joke for my upcoming “Sigmund Freud and J. Jonah Jameson Share A Cigar” painting. How much fun would that image be?
@Rob -See, if that condom wrapper had been in there we’d have been able to use He-Man merchandise in an AIDS awareness campaign!
@Hank -Poor Skeletor! He’s the most beefcake bag of bones in Dystopia, yet he gets no real respect.
Good stuff everybody! But the winner does actually come from to me through the Facebook mail;
John Jezior, renown actor and no stranger to action figures, gives us;
“Skeletor Banana-Job; Actual Size”
Thanks, Jez!
-R
Woo-hoo! Thanks, Rob! It’ll have a place of honor amongst the toy collection.
And I’m SO glad I wasn’t the only one seeing the naughty bits.
Curses! I’ll get you, He-Ma- er, I mean, Je-Zior!