Jose Ferraz de Almeida Junior, Brazilian
“Hey There! I Guess We’re Neighbors! Sorry, I Probably Should’ve Knocked First, Huh?,” 1882
Oil on canvas
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I was expecting a Johnny Manziel joke
Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here (archived if necessary), here, here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated Portuguese Wikipedia page has more).
/// Júnior set up this painting called “Boy”
with a young model in his employ.
The lad took careful aim
and then burst through the frame
of his old portrait, beaming with joy.
/// The model was not being coy;
he felt like a new man to destroy
the painter’s last work.
He had looked like a jerk
with a gap-toothed grin sure to annoy.
/// The boy, thought, “There’s no point getting Mad
just because that first likeness was bad.
Let him paint me again.
If I hate that one, then
I’ll rip it to shreds, too,” thought the lad.