Jean Carolus, Belgian
“I Like It, Honey. I Do. But Do You Really Think There’s a Market For Paintings of Nude Women?,” 1855
Oil on panel
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Artist info is pointed to in my comment at a prior blog entry.
/// His compulsion to change things too much is
why he can’t make The Finishing Touches.
Then his beautiful spouse
lets him look down her blouse.
In ten minutes she’s nude in his clutches.
/// Still, he can’t put off painting forever,
though his wife would, his ties to art, sever.
“Forget models. Instead
stay with me here in bed!”
She then turned him on, (pulling his lever.)
/// The painter adored his young wife,
so they compromised, ending their strife.
He can paint when it’s light,
but he’s hers through the night,
and each painting must be a still-life.
/// For him, painting all day isn’t rigor.
Doing what he loves fills him with vigor.
And although you may snigger,
when he looks at her “figger,”
it’s a trigger than makes him grow bigger.
/// “This is how you look, dear, in my eyes.
No deception— just little white lies.
Though your left and your right
have discrepancies (slight),
in my painting they’re both the same size.”
/// Making Finishing Touches with paint,
he finds hard; all his art shows restraint.
But in bed, his deft touch
makes her finish so much
that his wife never has a complaint.
/// To his wife it had come as a shock.
He won’t cover his clothes with a smock
to protect from paint spatter,
but it just doesn’t matter.
He can’t work; he has got Painter’s Block.