> Many art historians credit him with inventing “comic foregrounds,” those plywood pictures with a cut-out hole for a head, allowing passersby to pretend they’r

> Many art historians credit him with inventing “comic foregrounds,” those plywood pictures with a cut-out hole for a head, allowing passersby to pretend they’re bodybuilders or mermaids. Comedian James Acaster did a bit about “pictures that you put your head in”, joking that everyone knows of them, yet there’s no name for them because (or therefore?) they’re never talked about. But apparently there is after all, even coined by the person who invented them. And of course such a kitschy thing was invented by the guy who painted “dogs playing poker”.