More on Cake Pops and Other Mini Foods

" Live Your Life To The Full"

Ken e. Hall

Enjoy your life 

to the very full

Be kind to someone 

everyday, 

Spend your days 

doing what you love

Let your friends 

have their say, 

Be happy with 

what you've got

Climb mountains 

wearing happy fun, 

Indeed the sun will 

warm your very spot

Then life will grow you

all your needs, 

For you are sowing 

all the seeds. 

TODAY'S SEEDS OF WISDOM

• JUST BLOOMED TODAY
• GARDEN UPDATE
• MORE ON CAKE POPS AND OTHER MINI FOODS
• FAUNA
• GARDEN GIGGLE
• GARDEN FLOTSAM
• GARDEN GOODIES~SHARE OUR GARDEN CRAFT #RA03 TEACHER'S PET
• FEEDBACK

JUST BLOOMED TODAY~READER'S GARDEN SHARE

Maureen from Oregon shared these pictures of her front garden

 Maureen shares that deer usually destroy flower and gardens in her area but she is determined to have one!

GARDEN UPDATE

97F at 3:45pm in the High Desert. I am hiding inside, as usual, after having all my chores done early while it was still just warm.

We definitely have a rooster from our new babies...a Buff Orpington we named Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. We are working gentling him so he will be a polite boy.

The mulberries are now pretty much all ripe, and right at breakfast level...LOL! Nothing better than picking your breakfast from your own garden as you stroll around.

MORE ON CAKE POPS AND OTHER MINI FOODS

Yesterday we didn't get a chance to mention where cake pops come from. Fellow blogger Bakerella first unleashed these miniature cakes on sticks back in 2007. Once they went viral, pastry chefs, home bakers, even Starbucks jumped on the trend.

The queen of these candycoated creations is Angie Dudley, better known as Bakerella, the Georgia-based blogging sensation. Her precious Easter basket pops — with sugar cones for baskets and green Sour Patch straws for handles — are so intricately designed, one look would make most novices retreat to their kitchens with a bag of Tollhouse Break and Bake.

But Dudley swears that even detailed pops are not difficult. All it takes is box cake mix, ready-made frosting, an edible ink pen, tons of candy — and vision.

“I don’t look at candy as something to eat anymore,” says Dudley, the author of “Cake Pops: Tips, Tricks, and Recipes for More Than 40 Irresistible Mini Treats” (Chronicle Books, 2010). A second book focused on winter holiday pops is due out later this year. “I look at it as inspiration. I look at it proportionally. A Junior Mint is a hat. Coated sunflower seeds make great noses.”

She says the mini madness likely will continue, not only because the smaller desserts are portable and affordable, but also because they’re simply too darn cute to die out.

Inspired by the pops’ portability, moderate calorie content and undeniable cute factor, pastry chefs are coming up with miniature versions of other desserts, from cookies and cupcakes to seasonal tarts, whoopie pies and eclairs no bigger than a cocktail wiener.

There is much to love about these mini treats, says Paulina Tsagaris, whose Campbell-based boutique catering company, Sweet Luna Desserts, specializes in all treats miniature.

“They’re small, so you don’t have to feel guilty,” says Tsagaris, who makes baby eclairs filled with vanilla pastry cream and dipped in Guittard dark chocolate glaze. “And they’re usually full of flavor, so you’re left feeling satisfied in one or two bites.”

Sushi Cake Pops

They’re also small enough that you can try a variety without looking like a sweet-toothed hog. 

We know you are dying to try them so here are a few more to spark your creativity! And, thanks, Bakerella!

Bluebird Cake Pops

Boston Terrier Cake Pops

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Hamster Ice Cream, Anyone?

GARDEN FLOTSAM

For those of you still growing tomatoes "old school" (non-topsy turvey), and are picking off the tomato worms by hand, here's a neat trick- water your tomatoes from above before searching. The worms will wiggle to shrug off the water and you'll be able to see them.

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Now that school is ending, what is a cute way to say thank you to a great teacher? This is an easy and simple way to say 'thanks' and your child can give it to their teacher themselves.

You Will Need:

(2) large marshmellows

(1) Chocolate Bar

(1) small individual package of graham crackers

(1) ziplock baggie

(1) small tag that says "We Need S'MORE teachers like you!" (handletter or do on your computer with a cute font)

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Red Velvet Cake Pops with more than 10 variations!

About the Poet: John Howard Payne was an American actor, poet, playwright, and author who had most of his theatrical career and success in London. He is today most remembered as the creator of "Home! Sweet Home!", a song he wrote in 1822 that became widely popular in the United States, Great Britain, and the English-speaking world. After his return to the United States, Payne spent time with the Cherokee Indians. He published accounts that suggested their origin as one of the Ten Lost Tribes of ancient Israel. In 1842, Payne was appointed American Consul to Tunis, where he served for nearly 10 years until his death in 1852.  Never was a dead poet so famous for a single song, or so honored. Payne's song was widely sung during the American Civil War, when it was treasured by troops of both the North and the South. It was also a particular favorite of President Abraham Lincoln. He asked Italian opera star Adelina Patti to perform it for him and his wife when she appeared at the White House in 1862. The Lincolns were still mourning the death of their son Willie. Newspapers exclaimed."  "This song is that one touch of nature which makes the world kin. It is the frailest thread of which fame was ever spun."

" Home, Sweet Home"

John Howard Payne, 1791-1852

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, 

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home; 

A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there, 

Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere. 

Home, home, sweet, sweet home! 

There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home! 

An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain; 

Oh, give me my lowly thatched cottage again! 

The birds singing gayly, that come at my call -- 

Give me them -- and the peace of mind, dearer than all! 

Home, home, sweet, sweet home! 

There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home! 

I gaze on the moon as I tread the drear wild, 

And feel that my mother now thinks of her child, 

As she looks on that moon from our own cottage door 

Thro' the woodbine, whose fragrance shall cheer me no more. 

Home, home, sweet, sweet home! 

There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home! 

How sweet 'tis to sit 'neath a fond father's smile, 

And the caress of a mother to soothe and beguile! 

Let others delight mid new pleasures to roam, 

But give me, oh, give me, the pleasures of home. 

Home, home, sweet, sweet home! 

There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home! 

To thee I'll return, overburdened with care; 

The heart's dearest solace will smile on me there; 

No more from that cottage again will I roam; 

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. 

Home, home, sweet, sweet, home! 

There's no place like home, oh, there's no place like home!

TODAY'S SEEDS OF WISDOM

• JUST BLOOMED TODAY
• GARDEN UPDATE
• GARDEN GOODIES~SHARE OUR GARDEN RECIPE #0028 RED VELVET CAKE POPS WITH MORE THAN TEN VARIATIONS!
• FAUNA
• GARDEN GIGGLE
• GARDEN GAMES~MAKE A CAKE POP HOLDER FOR A GIFT
• FEEDBACK

JUST BLOOMED TODAY

Icelandic Poppy

GARDEN UPDATE
Happy to report that Elise doesn't seem to have any serious effects from her move. I made sure her branches were back in the window she loves. Thanks, Aunt Ruth, you're one smart lady! She suggested I start a cutting of Elise in case things went south. I did just that, so Elise will live on.
 GARDEN GIGGLE

  What do they serve at birthday parties in heaven?

Angel food cake, of course!

  What is an elf's favorite kind of birthday cake?

   Shortcake!

What cake do bats like?

Upside-down cake! 

  What type of cake weighs itself at Weight Watchers?

Pound Cake

  What type of cake is really valuable?

Marble Cake

 What type of cake loves to visit Europe?

German Chocolate Cake

  Why type of cake "grows" in orchards? 

Fruitcake

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GARDEN GOODIES~SHARE OUR GARDEN RECIPE #0028 RED VELVET CAKE POPS WITH MORE THAN TEN VARIATIONS!
Can there possibly be anything better than cake? <sigh> But with all the dieters out there the birth of the cake pop was heralded as a small miracle. Just enough cake to satisfy, without all the guilt. Basically a glorified donut hole, without the frying AND you get candy coating...ok what's not to love?

Today's recipe is one you will want to keep in your favorites. Cake pops can be made many different ways, including a specialized cake pop baking machine, which uses regular cake mix. But my favorite recipe is this one because the icing is inside the cake pop! AND you don't need any special pans!


The recipe listed is for the basic cake pop- you will need to choose your flavor-ite! Here are some great ideas (and will follow this recipe with the instructions):

• Cookies N Cream
• Peanut Butter Cup
• Raspberry Truffle
• Red Velvet
• Chocolate Covered Cherry
• Birthday Cake
• Ultimate Chocolate
• Lemon Cream
• Tiramisu
• Chocolate Mint
• Coconut
• Carrot Cake

CAKE POPS

You Will Need:

(1) package 2-layer-size cake mix
(1) - (1) 1/2 cups frosting or butter frosting (recipe follows)
(12)ounces vanilla- or chocolate-flavored candy coating, chopped
(12)ounces semisweet, dark, or white baking chocolate, chopped
34 - 36 lollipop sticks (Editor's Note:find these at a craft store, such as Michaels or anywhere that sells cake making supplies)


Instructions:
Prepare desired-flavor cake mix according to package directions. Use any suggested pan size and bake according to package directions. Cool in pan on a wire rack. Line trays or baking sheets with waxed paper; set aside.

Remove cooled cake from pan and crumble into a very large mixing bowl. Add desired-flavor frosting. Beat with an electric mixer on low speed until combined. Using a small scoop, drop mixture into 1 1/2-inch mounds onto prepared trays; roll mounds into balls and freeze for 30 minutes.(Editor's Note: If the higher amount of frosting is used, the cake balls will be rich and creamy but softer set. Make sure the balls are frozen solid and work quickly when dipping).

In a small microwave-safe dish heat 1 ounce of the coating (about 1/4 cup) on 50% power (medium) for 60 seconds until melted and smooth, stirring once. Dip one end of each lollipop stick into melted chocolate and poke sticks into balls (this helps the balls stay on the sticks). Freeze for 30 to 60 minutes more or until balls are firm.

Place remaining candy coating and chopped chocolate in a small saucepan. Heat over medium-low heat until melted and smooth, stirring frequently. Working in batches, dip balls into melted chocolate mixture. Allow excess to drip off; place balls on clean waxed paper-lined trays or baking sheets.(Editor's Note: If you don't want pops to have a flat side, poke the ends of the lollipop sticks into floral foam to suspend the pops until the chocolate is set.) After coating is set, transfer to storage containers and store, covered, in refrigerator. Let stand at room temperature at least 30 minutes before serving.
from the test kitchen
Variations:(Editor's Note: Please note variations in the frostings, with recipes given as well in the next section)

Red Velvet:Use red velvet cake mix, Basic Butter Frosting, and vanilla-flavored candy coating and white baking chocolate for dipping. Reserve 1/2 cup crumbled cake. After dipping pops in white chocolate, sprinkle with reserved crumbled cake. 

Raspberry Truffle: Use white cake mix, Raspberry Frosting, semisweet or dark chocolate, and chocolate-flavored candy coating for dipping. Before freezing the mounds of dough in Step 2, form each mound around a fresh raspberry.
Chocolate-Covered Cherry:Use chocolate cake mix, almond frosting, semisweet or dark chocolate, and chocolate-flavored candy coating for dipping. Before freezing the mounds of dough in Step 2, form each mound around a well-drained maraschino cherry.
Cookies and Cream: Use white cake mix, Basic Butter Frosting, and vanilla-flavored candy coating and white baking chocolate for dipping. Stir 1 cup crushed chocolate sandwich cookies with cream filling into crumbled cake. After dipping pop, sprinkle with 1/2 cup crushed chocolate wafer cookies while coating is still wet.
Peanut Butter Cup:Use chocolate cake mix, Peanut Butter Frosting, chocolate-flavored candy coating and semisweet or dark chocolate for dipping. Stir 1 cup chopped chocolate-covered peanut butter cups into crumbled cake. After dipping pops, sprinkle with 1 cup finely chopped dry roasted peanuts while coating is still wet.
Carrot Cake:Use carrot cake mix, Basic Butter Frosting, and vanilla-flavored candy coating and white baking chocolate for dipping. After dipping pops, sprinkle with 1 1/2 cups finely chopped toasted pecans while coating is still wet.
Tiramisu:Use yellow cake mix, Coffee Frosting, and vanilla-flavored candy coating and white baking chocolate for dipping. After dipping pops in white chocolate, sprinkle with 1/4 cup crushed chocolate-covered espresso beans while chocolate is still wet.
Coconut:Use white cake mix, Basic Butter Frosting, and vanilla-flavored candy coating and white baking chocolate for dipping. Stir 1 cup toasted flaked coconut into crumbled cake. After dipping pops in white chocolate, sprinkle with additional 1 cup toasted flaked coconut while chocolate is still wet.
Lemon Cream:Use lemon cake mix, Lemon Frosting, and vanilla-flavored candy coating and white baking chocolate for dipping. After dipping pops in candy coating, sprinkle with 1/4 cup finely crushed hard lemon candies (drops) while chocolate is still wet.
Ultimate Chocolate:Use devil's food chocolate cake mix, Chocolate Frosting, and chocolate- flavored candy coating and dark chocolate for dipping. After dipping pops, sprinkle with 1/4 cup miniature semisweet baking pieces while chocolate is still wet.
Birthday Cake:Use confetti cake mix, Basic Butter Frosting, and vanilla-flavored candy coating and white baking chocolate for dipping. If desired, tint vanilla candy coating with paste food coloring. After dipping pops, sprinkle with 2 tablespoons decorative confetti candies while coating is still wet.
Chocolate Mint: Use white cake mix, Peppermint Frosting, chocolate-flavored candy coating, and semisweet or dark chocolate for dipping. Stir 1 cup miniature semisweet baking pieces into crumbled cake. After dipping pops in chocolate, sprinkle with 1/2 cup shaved layered chocolate mint candies.

Editor's Note:Make Ahead Tip! Make-Ahead Directions:Layer cake pops between sheets of waxed paper in an airtight container; cover. Store in the refrigerator for up to 1 week or freeze for up to 1 month.
Basic Butter Frosting
You Will Need:

(1/4) cup butter, softened
(2  2/3) cups powdered sugar
(2) -(3) tablespoons milk

(1/2)teaspoon vanilla

Instructions:

In a medium mixing bowl beat butter with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Gradually add 2/3 cup powdered sugar, beating well. Slowly beat in 2 tablespoons milk and vanilla. Gradually beat in the remaining 2 cups powdered sugar. If needed, beat in additional milk, 1 teaspoon at a time, to make a frosting of spreading consistency.
Some Variations:

Almond:Prepare frosting as directed, except substitute 1/2 teaspoon almond extract for the vanilla.
Chocolate: Prepare frosting as directed, except substitute 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder for 2 tablespoons of the powdered sugar.
Coffee:Prepare frosting as directed, except add 1 1/2 teaspoons instant espresso coffee powder or instant coffee crystals. Mix with the 2 tablespoons milk to dissolve before adding.
Lemon:Prepare frosting as directed, except substitute lemon juice for the milk and add 1/4 teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel.
Peanut Butter: Prepare frosting as directed, except beat 2 tablespoons peanut butter into butter before adding powdered sugar.
Peppermint: Prepare frosting as directed, except substitute 1/8 teaspoon peppermint extract for the vanilla.
Raspberry: Prepare frosting as directed, except beat 1/4 cup seedless raspberry jam into butter before adding powdered sugar. Use one 1 tablespoon milk and omit vanilla.

nutrition facts  Servings Per Recipe 34,Calories 207, Protein (gm) 1,Carbohydrate (gm) 30, Fat, total (gm) 10,Saturated fat (gm) 6,
Monosaturated fat (gm) 1,Dietary Fiber, total (gm) 1,Sugar, total (gm) 23, Riboflavin (mg) 0, Sodium (mg) 126, Potassium (mg) 39,
Calcium (DV %) 30, Iron (DV %) 1,Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet
GARDEN GAMES

Make the cute cake pop holder featured in the photo by using a clean tin soup can (with label removed), ribbons, floral foam and hot glue.

Attach a variety of ribbons to the outside of the can with hot glue, and then tie a label with sheer ribbon. Place floral foam inside the can and insert pops into the foam!

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Virtual Road Trip ~National Gallery Sculpture Garden

  

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• JUST BLOOMED TODAY
• GARDEN UPDATE
• VIRTUAL ROAD TRIP~NATIONAL GALLERY SCULPTURE GARDEN, WASHINGTON, D.C.
• FAUNA
• GARDEN GIGGLE
• FEEDBACK

JUST BLOOMED TODAY

Cherry!

GARDEN UPDATE
80F at noon and no wind, well, of course the National Orange Show ended yesterday. So we anticipate the heat to start in earnest.


Hubby and I did the bananafanafofana on the back garden roses. Labor-intensive, but we did it together and talked the whole time bout this n that and before you know it, it was all done. My kind of gardening.


Elise looks okay so far this morning. A little bit shocky but not too droopy. With us thinning the branches a bit, there is more room for sunshine, so I hope she will be happier.
VIRTUAL ROAD TRIP~NATIONAL GALLERY SCULPTURE GARDEN, WASHINGTON, D.C.
Continuing with our virtual road trips, today's location is Washington, D.C. and our nation's capitol.

Designed to offer year-round enjoyment to the public in one of the preeminent locations on the National Mall, the National Gallery Sculpture Garden includes seventeen works from the Gallery's growing collection as well as loans for special exhibitions.

Located in the 6.1-acre block adjacent to the West Building, the elegant yet informal Garden includes new plantings of native American species of canopy trees, flowering trees, shrubs, ground covers, and perennials. A fountain, which serves as an ice rink in winter, is at the center of the Garden, and walking and seating areas offer visitors a chance to rest and reflect on the works on view. The Pavilion Café offers year-round café service, along with indoor seating. The Sculpture Garden is enclosed by a decorative metal fence with marble piers and plinths, designed to reflect the historic character of the West Building. There are six public entryways to the Sculpture Garden, and it is accessible to visitors with disabilities. Many of the larger sculptures were brought to the garden in pieces and then assembled on site. Here are a few:

Personnage Gothique, Joan Miro

 Joan Miró created most of his sculpture—more than 150 examples 

after his seventieth birthday. These late works fall into two formal groups: those cast from forms modeled by the artist and those cast from found objects. One of Miró’s largest sculptures, Personnage
Gothique relates to both types, since the bird was cast from an object the artist created, while the head was cast from a cardboard box and the body from a donkey yoke.

Claes Oldenburg's  Typewriter Eraser, Scale X (model 1998, fabricated 1999)

In the mid-1960s Claes Oldenburg began to make drawings of monuments based on common objects, such as a clothespin or a pair of scissors, challenging the notion that public monuments must commemorate historical figures or events. The artist's selection of discredited or obsolete objects extends to those remembered from childhood. As a youngster he enjoyed playing in his father's office with a typewriter eraser. In the late 1960s and 1970s he used the eraser as a source for drawings, prints, sculpture, and even a never-realized monument for New York City. This sculpture presents a giant falling eraser that has just alighted, the bristles of the brush turned upward in a graceful, dynamic gesture.

Louise Bourgeois American, born 1911, France Spider, 1996, cast 1997 bronze with silver nitrate patina

Since 1984 Louise Bourgeois has been developing a body of work with the spider as protagonist. For the artist, whose work has explored themes of childhood memory and loss, the spider carries associations of a maternal figure. Indeed, Bourgeois' "Spider" series relates to her own mother who died when the artist was twenty-one. From drawings to large-scale installations, Bourgeois' spiders appear as looming and powerful protectresses, yet are nurturing, delicate, and vulnerable. 

Magdalena Abakanowicz Puellae (Girls), 1992

Over the last thirty years, Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz has created a compelling and highly emotional body of work, largely drawn from her personal experience of World War II and its aftermath. She is best known for her "crowds" (as she calls them) of headless, rigidly posed figures whose anonymity and repetitious presentation have been regarded as the artist's personal response to totalitarianism.

Trained as a textile artist, Abakanowicz first used burlap in her indoor sculpture to achieve modulated, deeply incised surfaces for powerfully expressive ends. Each of the thirty bronzes in Puellae is a unique cast, made from a burlap mold that the artist individually worked during the casting process. Each puella's diminutive size is unusual, since Abakanowicz has traditionally depicted adults as life-size or larger. The work refers to an account the artist heard as a child in Poland during World War II about a group of children who froze to death as they were transported in cattle cars from Poland to Germany, as part of the "Arianization" process. Depending on the site, these figures can be arranged in any configuration.

Barry Flanagan Thinker on a Rock, 1997

Reacting against the formal, constructed metal sculpture that predominated when he was in art school, Barry Flanagan explored painting, dance, and installation pieces. He has produced an inventive and varied body of work filled with humor and poetic associations, often evoked by the particular organic materials he employed. While working with clay in the early 1980s, Flanagan perceived the image of a hare "unveiling" itself before him. The hare has appeared in an endless variety of guises in Flanagan's bronzes. In Thinker on a Rock the artist substitutes his signature hare for Rodin's Thinker (1880), making a witty and irreverent reference to one of the world's best-known sculptures.

 

Alexander Calder Cheval Rouge (Red Horse), 1974
  

  During the last two decades of his life Alexander Calder devoted his greatest efforts to large-scale mobiles and stabiles, many of which have become popular public landmarks in cities around the world. Unlike his earlier works, these huge objects required a collaborative effort. To fabricate Cheval Rouge the artist worked with skilled technicians and metalworkers at the Biémont Foundry in Tours, France.

Calder's outdoor stabiles such as Cheval Rouge exhibit a universally appealing grace and, though steadfastly abstract, evoke a friendly resonance with natural forms. Here the sleek, tapering legs and tensile up-thrust "neck" recall the muscularity and power of a thoroughbred. This stabile reflects Calder's assertion: "I want to make things that are fun to look at, that have no propaganda value whatsoever." 

George Rickey Cluster of Four Cubes, 1992

 George Rickey began to produce kinetic sculpture in the late 1940s. Intrigued by both the history of constructivist art and by the example of Calder's mobiles, he developed systems of motion that made his works respond to the slightest variations in the flow of air currents. Rickey's kinetic sculpture provides a dialogue between ordered geometric shapes and random motion.

The massive element of Cluster of Four Cubes is appended by ball bearings to slender arms that branch from a central post. Each cube is precisely weighted and balanced, engineered to turn effortlessly in the lightest breeze; they glide, nearly brushing one another in an intricate and graceful dance that belies their apparent bulk.

There are also beautiful plantings among the sculptures. Here are a few:

The deep maroon flowers of the chocolate cosmos add a hint of chocolate to the air. This plant is a marginal perennial that must be dug out and stored for the winter. The Crème Brûleè coreopsis exhibits an abundance of pale yellow flowers throughout the season. 

These large flowers "Bracken's Brown Beauty" southern magnolia add a beautiful scent to the Sculpture Garden. This tree makes a perfect windscreen, which also assists in blocking the traffic noise.

Many of the plantings, as well as the fountain, in the Sculpture Garden encourage wildlife. The Garden is home to a wide variety of birds, including ducks that return every year. 

Red Twig Dogwood (Cornus sericea)

The fall color of the Cornus sericea shines behind a border of cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus'OttoLuyken'). The red twig dogwood will slowly lose its vibrant color and be pruned to the ground. This plant grows very quickly and needs annual aggressive pruning to keep it clean.

The oakleaf hydrangea leaves turn a deep red-bronze color in fall. The bark of these plants also exhibit exfoliating characteristics. All of the H. quercifolia plants are pruned after flowering. In the background, a transplanted cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus lebani) is seen with its graceful branches.

All in all, a beautiful place to relax and admire the art while among gorgeous plantings and water features!

GARDEN GIGGLE

What do you get if you cross a painter with a boxer?

 Mohammed Dali

Why was the art dealer in debt?

 He didn't have any Monet

What did the artist say to the dentist?

 Matisse hurt

Vincent van Gogh walks into a bar, and the bartender offers him a drink...

No thank -you, said Vincent, I've got one 'ere.

What do you call an American drawing?

A Yankee Doodle.

Did you hear about the two little boys who found themselves in a modern art gallery by mistake?

"Quick," said one, "Run ! Before they say we did it!"

The Mona Lisa was brought up in court on charges of murder,

but it turned out that she'd been framed...

Recently a guy in Paris nearly got away with stealing several paintings from the Louvre. However, after planning the crime, breaking in, evading security, getting out and escaping with the goods, he was captured only two blocks away when his Econoline van ran out of gas. When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an obvious error, he replied:

"I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh."

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