The Walt Disney organization has done some very adult things in a prankish way. There is a chaotic freedom among the Disneyites that is reminiscent of the helter-skelter individuality of the old Greeks and of the geniuses of the Italian renaissance. In an atmosphere such as Disney provides order doesn't seem to flourish, but things get done – some very serious and purposeful things, and others that probably may be defined as brilliant by-products of exuberance.
The private cocktail room of the Disney studio, with its gaily upholstered chairs in red leather and its ornate bar flashing with crystal, is a riotously polychromatic expression of the rambunctious willfulness that keeps the Disney gang dynamic and creative.
So Disney history continues to be made in off hours as well as in the laborious drudgery with which animated cartoone are evolved.
That's how the Disney art gallery of impish burlesques on the old masters came into being.
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Following is the list of titles burlesqued by the Disney boys:
"Venus a la Donald Duck," after Titian's "Venus and Adonis," by John Dunn.
"Soup's On," after Breughel's "Wedding feast," by Ray Patin.
"Duck with a Glove," after "Portrait of a Man," by Frans Hals.
"Donald Mcdonna," after Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna," by Ray Patin.
"Donald's Whistling Mother," after James McNeill Whistler's "Mother," by Ray Patin.
"The Noble Snob," after Rembrandt's "The Noble Slav," by Ray Patin.
"Donald with a Pink," after Massy's "Man with a Pink," by Ray Patin.
"Donald Pinkle," after Sir Thomas Lawrence's "Pinkle," by Ray Patin.
"Blue Duck," after Thomas Gainsborough's "Blue Bo," by Ray Patin.
"Two Dancing Ducks," after Hilaire Degas' "Two Dancers," by Ray Patin.
"Vincent van Duck," after Van Gogh's "Self Portrait," by Phil Klein.
"Donald lost in a Picasso Painting," by Phil Klein.
"Harem Duck," after Matisse's "Odalisque," by Phil Klein.
"Tahitian Ducks," after Gauguin's "Two Tahitian Women on the Beach," by Ray Patin.
"Portrait of a Lady," after Rubens' painting of the same name, animator artist unidentified.
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