Art A Day Gallery

INT - Art Gallery

A CURATOR leads a group.

Curator: We're currently showcasing a young artist, who underwent an exhaustive foray into creating art every over the course of a single month. As we begin, we see a lovely pastoral scene.

We see a painting of a lovely pastoral scene. It is numbered "1," and each subsequent painting is also numbered.

Curator: Moving on, an optimistic vision of the future.

2. We see a bustling city, with clean streets and happy locals.

Curator: And a solitary street.

3. An unfinished painting, very similar to the last, but just of the street.

Curator: Henry the Great.

4. A king with a grey beard.

Curator: We now enter the roman phase.

5. The letter "V" is the only thing in the picture.

6. The same king as in 4, but dressed in a toga.

7. A picture of Italy.

8. A picture of the Pope.

9. A picture of the Pope, eating a pizza.

10. A picture of the Pope, eating a pizza, in a lovely pastoral scene.

Curator: The Roman phase ends quickly, and abruptly, as it began.

11. A crumpled up piece of paper, neatly framed.

Curator: However, out of this came the modernist period.

In quick succession we see:

12. Just a neatly framed picture of "12". 13 through 17 repeat with their respective numbers.

Curator: Moving out of the stark modernism, he reflects on various issues of growing up. Note the musculature of a young man, finally gaining the strength of adulthood.

18. A man, outstretched arm reaching for a package of cigarettes.

Curator: A theme that is only continued a single time.

19. "18+1".

Curator: With the tenuous grasp on adulthood established, the artist moves on to other territories.

20. A ridiculous dragon, similar to the cover of a pulp fantasy paperback.

21. A photograph of the picture in 20.

22. A woodcutting of the picture in 20.

23. The word "Dragon".

Curator: With piece 24, we see a strong trend develop, which culminates the artists work for this month, and our showing.

24. A stick figure with a paintbrush, standing before an easel with a blank canvas.

25. The same stick figure, with an angry expression on his fast, is painting a muscular, happy, and confident stick figure on the canvas.

26. Dissatisfied, the painter is leaving the picture.

27. The muscled stick figure sticks his head out of the frame of the picture within the picture to see if the painter stick figure is gone.

28. He climbs out of the painting.

29. There is now a bush next to the easel, behind which the muscled stick figure is hiding. The painter is looking at his painting, perplexed.

30. The muscled stick figure has jumped out of the bush, and is about to attack the painter.

31. The painter is now inside the painting within the painting, with bars and a lock drawn over it. The muscular stick figure is walking away, twirling the keys.

Curator: Unfortunately, the artist, himself, was unable to be in attendance to day, but we do have a friend of his on hand for any questions. I'd like to now introduce him, Mr. Mark Stickly.

Pan over to the muscular stick figure, standing in the corner.