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The Aristocrats
2006
60 X 60 cm (23'' X 23'')
Oil on board
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The Aristocrats is a well known joke, seemingly without any real point. The purpose of it is that the one pulling the joke is supposed to embroider it out as far, outrageous and rude as possible.
The classical setting is that an artist visits a circus- or a variety manager to present a new number. The act the man then describes - a number were the man and his family make an appearance on a stage in front of an audience - starts rather easy with nudity, sex and violence, and continues with different uses of faeces, incest, necrophilia and so on.
The manager then asks the man what he calls his number, upon which the man happily exclaims; "The Aristocrats!" One of the purposes with the story is that it allows the teller to let go totally - the more gross and disgusting the funnier it gets. If you hold back it just gets corny. In a way The Aristocrats is a superb training for a comedian to test - and if one has the gift, discover that there are no - boundaries. The joke has led to an unoffical contest among comedians; they who can pull the most outrageous and embroided versions enjoy the other's horror blended admiration. In some ways the Aristocrats tells more about existence than the number 42. Now look at the painting above. It is I who sits there drinking beer with a straw. Michael Moore sits in the middle and Maria on the far right. George Bush Jr stands up with a glass of vine and finishes what he's saying with... "...The Aristocrats!".
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