We are
in the room of a museum whose walls represent works relating to the most
important and famous painters or sculptors in the history of art throughout the
course of the series.
The
protagonists are two adolescent boys, whose presence in the museum, far off
from being interested in the works of art, happened by chance or somehow unintentionally found
themselves there.
In
addition to the two fifteen-year-old boys there is the museum curator, an
elderly and frustrated man, very cultured in art but whose life alone has
reserved a marginal place in the field. The relationship with the boys provokes
lively gags that obviously point out the generational difference between the
two cultural levels. The curator's
attempt to explain the art to them, with its polished and academic language,
succeeds only in confirming the boys preconceived opinion, that he is a boring
and disagreeable person.
Under
a totally different light the characters that are entrusted with the task of
giving the easy art version are introduced: they are represented as lice
that inhabit the heads of the boys and the museum curator. The insects,
graphically portrayed with animation techniques, present themselves as true art
enthusiasts and connoisseurs of the depicted artists. Theirs is a youthful
language, easily comprehensible by the targeted audience. The lice belong to a
world parallel to the real one: this makes any interaction with the real
characters impossible, yet does not stop them from making comments or
expressing their opinions, supplying further breaking points that reach their
climax with the representation of their end. Every episode ends relentlessly
with the accidental death of some louse either because it was
"scratched" by a hand or
crushed from a friendly slap in the head.
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