May 29th, 2003 -- by Bacchus
Celery Plus Gravity Minus Panties Equals Art
Here’s a hilarious pinup art essay by James Lileks, in which is lampooned an extensive series of paintings featuring girls whose panties have mysteriously fallen off in public. Celery is often present. It’s all very weird and a little disturbing, although some of the pictures are sort of cute if you are into public humiliation of pretty but hapless women with inexplicably slippery thighs:
It’s hard to say whether Lileks doesn’t get that this was a fetish of the artist, doesn’t approve of what is basically a harmless fetish expressed in art, or is just being so harsh for the (considerable) comic effect that results. A good read in any case.
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This is an interesting read, but Lileks fails to grasp that the panties in these pictures are not nylon with elastic, but the earlier (and less constricting) form of silk drawers. Anyhow, Art Frahm’s artwork is indeed preposterous, quirky and funny, while Lileks’s send-off of it is quite witty.
celery is probably the most beautiful thing to paint, that can also be sticking out of the top of a paper bag.
It is a shame that bok choy was not a common produce item in the US at the time, because my personal fetish is bok choy as seen sticking out of a brown paper grocery bag.
This is a real-world manifestation of one of those fetishes I made up just to test the limits of the human libido: I came up with the term “‘cumber-porn” to describe images of sex or sexualized images which involve encumbrance with bulky parcels. This is probably the first example I’ve actually found.