That's our first question, too, upon seeing art: "Is that oatmeal?"  From What Happened to Wigglesworth by William Oliver Fuller and illustrated by E. D. Allen, 1901.

The charcoal pencil may be mightier than the sword.  From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1949.

Here's a precursor to Tetris.  From Barnard's 1957 yearbook.

Except for the so-called "modern" variety, "don't be afraid of art!"  From Together, 1959.

From the Latin School Register (Boston), 1928.

From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1950.

From the University of Montana's 1947 yearbook.

Artists who are themselves cubist paint traditionally.  From Le Charivari, 1890.

"Our feeling for a broom is not the same as our feeling for a rose" (Psychology by John Dewey, 1886).  Illustration from Le Charivari, 1887.

"Light is weightless, and yet it is so real that it provides the yardstick for measuring the universe" (George Seielstad, 1962).  From Duke's 1969 yearbook.

From Lustige Blätter, 1916.

Futurist basketball game.  From Lewis Institute's 1913 yearbook.

Reblog if you, too, are still resisting abstractionism.  From Dark Shadows episode 133.

From Cine-Mundial, 1936.

A cubist portrait of Chaplain, from Photoplay Magazine, 1920.

What better subject for cubism than a box-er?  From Cine-Mundial, 1927.

Couldn't have put it better ourselves!  From Woroni, 1984.

Arman's "L’Heure de Tous" sculpture at the Saint Lazare train station has created temporal anomalies not only in Paris but all across Europe and even parts of Turkey.  Though we are proponents of art in general, we must formally denounce this particular sculpture for its recklessness with the fabric of spacetime.  Photos by Juanedc and Vincent Aguerre.  

From Park College's 1931 yearbook.