Art Exhibit

 

A couple attending an art exhibition at the
National Gallery were staring at a portrait that
had them completely confused. The painting
depicted three very black and totally
naked men sitting on a park bench. Two of

the figures had black  penises, but the one in

the middle had a pink penis.
                        
 The curator of the gallery realized that
they were having trouble interpreting the

painting and offered his assessment. He went

on for nearly half an hour explaining how it
depicted the sexual emasculation of
 African-Americans in a predominately white,
patriarchal society. "In fact," he pointed out,
"some serious  critics believe that the pink
penis also reflects the cultural and sociological
oppression experienced by gay men in

contemporary society."
                        
After the curator left, a rather unpolished

(some might say a  hillbilly) man wearing
a West Virginia T-shirt approached the
couple and said, "Would you like to know

what the  painting is really about?"
                        
 "Now why would you claim to be more of
an expert than the curator of the gallery?"

asked the couple. "Because I'm the guy
who painted it," he replied. "In fact, there
are no African-Americans depicted at
all. They're just three West Virginia

coal-miners. The only difference  is that

the guy in the middle went home for lunch