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I wouldn’t want it in my town either =:O

Encyclopedia Definition Of Pooka

Ol’ púca is strutting like a cartoon character. Or Jackie Gleason (and awaaaay we go!).

Somebody’s just horsin’ around

btw, it’s been in the middle 40’s and raining here in the upper Midwest.

Middle. Forties.

Danged global warming aint good fer nothin’

The sculptor evidently was inspired toward the end of a ten day peyote binge by his hallucinations of Eleanor Roosevelt and Rocinante.

Ya dosey ninnyhammers, there’s alriddy a perfectly good picture of a pooka named Harvey painted with Jimmy Stewart.

durnedyankee beat me to it.

I know artists tend to flatter their customers but beyond the pale.

Wait…am I crazy or does that look like something out of the “Fiend Folio”?

@dissent555

Just did my annual relocation from south FLA to God’s Country in northern MI.
Holy crap…it was 38 last night and we might see a near freezing mark before the sun comes up. This heat and humidity boy is sleeping under every blanket this old cottage has…hope it kills all the mosquitos. (BTW, love the horse.) Looks like it was created by the same artist who sculpted the famine ship in Westport…https://tinyurl.com/3fymc8ea

Geez. Everyone knows a pooka is a tall white rabbit named Harvey. What were they thinking?

The artist needs someone to hold out a soft white hand and say;
“Poor thing. Poor, poor thing.”

Is it ok to say I admire the artist’s skill enormously, and I dislike this particular example?

Nope, no way I could live with that either.

Last year when we did our Roman-style shower (no glass doors) we looked at a zillion slabs of marble & granite. When some of them were bookmatched demons, aliens, skeletons, and all manner of creepy creatures and gateways to Hell emerged.

No. Just no.

Marble inkblots?
Yes, I can see why NO.

Can’t do this with a badger.

https://is.gd/MEAHbM

(Imgur video)

One of the things about “modern” ( Jesus, it’s been around since 1917 when Duchamp signed “R Mutt” on a urinal and called it art – aren’t we due for something new and better?) art is the conscious and willful avoidance of beauty.

This ties into the popular self-perception of artists as impudent twat who must -must- tweak the noses of the bourgeoisie.

The artist here knew perfectly well that this piece did not fit his commission – the town wanted something a bit cute and Irish, and a giant rabbit would not have gone amiss- but nooo. He must must prove his intellectual superiority over the Yobs and particularly the American Yobs who are coming as tourists. Well, there will be very few tourists posing for pictures with this piece to form a happy memory of a quaint Irish village. Fail.

What makes it particularly annoying is that the artist is clearly very skilled and talented. In the right context this is an impressive piece. He could have easily done what was wanted. If he felt that that a Kinkaid fluff piece was beneath his dignity or not stylistically his cup of tea, he should have declined the commission.

More to the point, pookas probably do better physiology than this demonstration depicts.

Dark “SLEEK” HORSE. Not badly formed clay human with horse head created by a zombie witchdoctor.

Good heavens, Pups – is that a cleavage weasel?