Cute Poseidon
I would think that Poseidon irony itself is not the problem, I would think Neptune is a symptom of the problem. Scholarly and funny, all of these are twisted into disorienting puzzle.
Humorous art is a mismatch between the expected and the actual picture. Unfortunately too often, this is an excuse for lazy graphic design.
Funny artworks and scientific figures strive to describe three-dimensional space. The squeaky wheel gets its place in art history. Theory was never so central for art as it is now.
The satiric picture goes to the heart of an old argument over how much artworks actually thinks. Good art eludes easy interpretation.
Dare to be wrong. Art is on both sides of drawing papers.
Dare to be wrong, or you may never be an artist out of the whimsical potential of humor.
Why drawing for life is better? When you look at the picture, the picture looks back at you.
What is the main goal of art? It is hard to imagine anything not feeling special in the dream-like life that we share with our technology, deep into the internet forest.
Everything about art has become problematic. Using your creative energy creates more of it. We seek through doubt and by seeking we perceive the truth.
Failure thus becomes impossible because the criteria of success are absent. Art programs and machines are not teleologically oriented. They have no definite goal; they simply go on and on. At the same time, these programs include the possibility of being interrupted at any moment without losing their integrity.
Boris Groys, Under the gaze of theory.