art package that was produced entirely for internal use within a major media corporation, and was never meant to be seen by the general public. Each year for many years, the FOX KIDS Network commissioned an art piece as a special perk for network executives and network affiliate owners (FOX KIDS was a programming block of childrens entertainment on the FOX network from 1990-2002). This art piece would be produced at great expense, with high production values, in extremely limited quantities (we're talking dozens, not hundreds); which would be sent as special gifts to a handful of network executives.

This is one of those pieces, from 1995. It consists of a series of 15 illustrations, each featuring a character or program running on the FOX KIDS Network that year. Each character is rendered into a style or scenario parodying a famous piece of classical or contemporary art. Each piece is litho printed onto heavyweight high-quality textured archival paper, resembling the surface of an art canvas. (To see comparisons of the parodies and the originals, go here.) The heavy art frame was sculpted with bas-relief images of these same characters, cast, and then lovingly composited, hand-finished and antiqued to create the look of ancient gilded wood, with a faux nameplate reading "Musee du Renard des Enfants" (an inside joke, as this would translate roughly to "Museum of the Fox Kids").

The concept is that each of the 15 canvases would be rotated occasionally in the frame, resulting in a seemingly endless variety of new art, based on the FOX KIDS stable of characters. The frame measures 18 inches wide by 21 inches tall by 1.75 inches thick. Each of the 15 art prints measures 13 inches by 16.25, with the image area measuring approximately 10.25 inches by 12.75 inches. The frame and artwork together weighs just under 4.4 pounds (1975 kilograms).

Characters or shows sculpted on the bas-relief frame include(clockwise from top left corner): Spider-Man, Carmen Sandiego, Bobby Generic, Masked Rider, FOX Cubhouse, Batman and Robin, Casper The Friendly Ghost, Tasmanian Devil, The Tick and Arthur, FOX Cubhouse, Eek! The Cat, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Life With Louie, Goosebumps, X-Men, and FOX Cubhouse.

The 15 art prints include:
Masked Remington features the Saban Entertainment character Masked Rider, a live-action spinoff from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers franchise, rendered in the style of American West painter and sculptor Frederic Remington.

Van Ghost features the character Casper The Friendly Ghost, rendered as a parody of the Vincent van Gogh painting The Starry Night.

Web of Despair features Marvel Comics' Spider-Man and his girlfriend Mary Jane, rendered in the style of American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein.

Carmen on a Half-Shell features the DIC Entertainment/Broderbund Software character Carmen Sandiego, rendered as a parody of the classical Sandro Botticelli painting The Birth of Venus.

Doomed Bison-Tazcaux Cave, France features the Warner Brothers/Looney Tunes character Taz (short for Tasmanian Devil), rendered in the style of the prehistoric cave paintings at Lascaux, France.

Blue Hero #1 features the animated character The Tick, rendered as a parody of Henri Matisse'sBlue Nudes series.

The Rain of Louie features the animated character Louie (based on the childhood of standup comic Louie Anderson) from the series Life With Louie, rendered as a parody of the Rene Magritte painting Golconda.

Caped Seurat, Seurat features DC Comics' Batman characters, rendered as a parody of the Georges-Pierre Seuratpointillism masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

The ScrEek! features animated character Eek! The Cat, rendered as a parody of the disturbing Edvard Munch expressionist painting The Scream.

Dutch Mutants features Marvel Comics' X-Men characters, rendered as a parody of the Rembrandt painting The Syndics of the Clothmakers' Guild, sometimes referred to as "Dutch Masters," after a cigar company which used the image as a corporate logo.

Cubhouse a la Rousseaux features characters from the educational program FOX Cubhouse, rendered as a parody of the Henri Rousseau painting The Dream.

American Goosebumps features the series Goosebumps, rendered as a parody of the Grant Wood painting American Gothic.

Warhol Overhaul reproduces the FOX Kids Network logo over and over again, with variations, in the manner of Andy Warhol.

Pablo's Power Gathering features Saban Entertainment's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, rendered as of a parody of Pablo Picasso's cubist masterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Blue Bobby features animated character Bobby Generic, of Bobby's World, based on, and voiced by, standup comic Howie Mandell, who now hosts Deal or No Deal for NBC-TV. Blue Bobby is a parody of the Thomas Gainsborough painting The Blue Boy.