That Is Priceless by Steve Melcher

From Goodreads:

Thirty-two million Americans consider themselves artists, and nearly 100 million consider themselves art lovers. They--along with anyone else who enjoys a good laugh--will appreciate the edgy blend of art, comedy, and pop culture inside comedian Steve Melcher's popular blog-turned-book,That Is Priceless: Art's Greatest Masterpieces . . . Made Slightly Funnier. 

It all started when Melcher stumbled upon a postcard in a museum gift shop for Peter Paul Rubens's The Finding of Erichthonius. Inspiration struck, and Melcher scrambled for a Post-it note and scribbled down what he thought was a more appropriate title: Worst Secret Santa Gift Ever. And with that, That Is Priceless was born. More than 150 images are gathered inside the book's full-color pages--from Courbet's The Desperate Man reimagined as Johnny Depp Realizing He Left the Oven On to Degas's Portrait of the Artist James Tissot retitled as Portrait of the Artist in Mom Jeans. 

Part art history, part parody, and entirely laugh-out-loud funny, That Is Priceless gives musty old paintings a 21st-century pop culture face-lift, enlivening the artist's canvas with playful comic irreverence.

Art? Humor? Okay, I HAD to check out this book. This book is a collection of art by art masters with alternate titles. Some of them were okay. Some of them were funny. All made me look at the art a little closer. So, for that reason I consider this book a fun success. It may introduce people who have never spent time in a museum or art showing to actually look at all the art that surrounds them. However, why describe it when I can show you some of the pieces in this book:

My favorites:

Gustave Courbet, French

Johnny Depp Realizing He Left the Oven On, 1844

Oil on Canvas

Carlos Schwabe, Swiss-German

Lady Gaga's High School Yearbook Photo, 1907

Oil on Canvas

Some I liked, but thought of different titles:

Unknown Flemish Artist

Informercial for the BreadBlaster 3000, 1648

Oil on Canvas

My alternate title:

Burger King's Oldest Commercial: Where's the Beef?

Nicolae Grigorescu, Romanian

Vlad and Lucky Mailing Their Wedding Announcement, 1850

Oil on Canvas

My alternate title:

AFLACK!

Agnolo Bronzino, Italian

Sir Percival, Rethingking the Nipple Spikes, 1545

Tempera on Canvas

My alternate title:

Madonna, Eat Your Heart Out!

The book is separated into different categories, but not for the art, for the title of the work. So, since I had fun with this book, can you think of alternate titles to go with the artwork? If you can, comment! I'd love to see what others come up with! :)

Oh, and if you really enjoy this type of fun-making, the author has a blog. In fact the blog turned into this book. Just go HERE to see more artwork with different titles.

I was given this ebook by the publisher and net galley and no compensation for my review was given.