Backward Ran the Progress, Until Reeled the Mind

High art, circa 1622:

RT @TrevorBaum: Bernini carved this from marble when he was 23. Have a nice day, everyone. pic.twitter.com/j3mO1AbRiL

— Melissa Clouthier (@MelissaTweets) October 17, 2014

High art, circa 2014:

Longtime Pictoplasma contributor Paul McCarthy’s new sculpture in Paris may, or may not, be a christmas tree. But… pic.twitter.com/pHUybSGt58

— Pictoplasma (@pictoplasma) October 18, 2014

As someone joked in response on Twitter, “You misspelled that last word.”

Heh. Naturally, if you’re offended, the artist says it’s your fault:

“At first, I found the anal plug had a similar form to Brancusi’s sculptures,” he explained. “Afterwards, I realized it resembled a Christmas tree, but it is an abstract work. People can be offended if they want to think of it as a plug, but for me it is more of an abstraction.”

How retrogressive and reactionary.