I'm no oil painting

[Gob]

well, here I am anyway...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Looks like someone stole Yorick's skull - either that or it's an attempt at a concealed fart.

Oh... maybe that's not you sitting next to Tim McInnerny?

[Sue U]

Nice glasses, hippie.

[Gob]

Ah, my old "John Lennon" spcs, how young and foolish I was then.Now I'm just old and foolish.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I blame it on the drugs.

[Guinevere]

I also guessed the glasses guy. Great painting!

[Sue U]

Oh... maybe that's not you sitting next to Tim McInnerny?

That's not Tim McInnerny, you goon, it's Bradley Whitford.

So Gob, what's the story behind this piece?

[Joe Guy]

It looks like a British version of the last supper.

[Gob]

So Gob, what's the story behind this piece?

here we go Sue;

About Robert Lenkiewicz

Robert Lenkiewicz (1941–2002) worked within ‘Projects’: large-scale exhibitions of paintings and research notes related to sociological issues. His themes – vagrancy, mental handicap, old age, suicide, death – sought to illuminate the lives of those he called “the invisible people”. In other Projects –- with themes of falling in love, jealousy, orgasm, and obsessive attraction – Lenkiewicz looked at “addictive behaviour” of various kinds.

Long in preparation, Observations on Local Education, his seventeenth Project, emerged in 1988 at the painter's Barbican studio. 92 of the works had been previewed between 19 July - 3 August at Chilford Hall Barns, Linton during the 1987 Cambridge Festival.

Two large volumes of observations written by his sitters, including local teachers and headmasters, schoolchildren, and radical British educationalists such as Dora Russell and Michael Duane, were published. These books, and the drab likenesses of uninspired education professionals, were intended to serve as evidence that British schooling in the 80s had succumbed entirely to an “education for work policy” even as it congratulated itself on having incorporated the best practices of the child-centred learning revolution of the 1960s and 1970s.

http://www.robertlenkiewicz.org/content ... -education

The main guy in that image, Garth Allen (a real up his own arse wanker if ever there was one,) was one of the main tutors at my University.

[MajGenl.Meade]

You mean, Garth is the ugly woman in black, wondering where Yorick's skull has vanished??

[Gob]

No, Garth is the snotty looking ginger cunt, who permanently looked like he'd been sucking a lemon.

[Sue U]

No, Garth is the snotty looking ginger cunt, who permanently looked like he'd been sucking a lemon.

Wait, I thought you were the ginger?

So this was done while you were at University? How did you become involved? Who are all those people and why?

[Gob]

No, Garth is the snotty looking ginger cunt, who permanently looked like he'd been sucking a lemon.

Wait, I thought you were the ginger?

So this was done while you were at University? How did you become involved? Who are all those people and why?

I was in Garth's tutorial group for sociology, he was considered a major player in the area. Robert L wanted to "frame him" with his students, though refused to paint me giving him the finger.

[Big RR]

Wait, I thought you were the ginger?

Maybe it was a Henna rinse? It was the 70s (80s?) after all.

[Sue U]

Robert L wanted to "frame him" with his students, though refused to paint me giving him the finger.

Well, the blonde lass looks like she's ready to choke him ...

[Sue U]

Maybe it was a Henna rinse? It was the 70s (80s?) after all.

That's funny -- in the late 70s/early 80s I used to share rehearsal space with a girl band whose big song/single was I Need A Henna Rinse.

ETA:

OMG, I just found a video they did that has somehow survived:



Hahahahahahaha!

[Lord Jim]

the ugly woman in black, wondering where Yorick's skull has vanished

The one with the Hobbit Feet?

His themes – vagrancy, mental handicap, old age, suicide, death

So were you chosen as an illustration of vagrancy, or mental handicap?

[MajGenl.Meade]

He's growing into the others, one by one. Oooooh I hope not.

[Gob]

Better version..

[Joe Guy]

You don't have a right leg.