Andy Warhol experienced his Pop Artwork Texas has its “crop art” with a generous splash of oversized humor.
Together with the “bigger than big” Texas offers is the century-aged customized of sending “Texas brags” or exaggeration postcards featuring apples the sizing of boulders, farmers climbing ladders to slash watermelons and corn the dimension of boxcars.
All of these ended up released in the early 1900s, prolonged right before computerized manipulation and Photoshop.
These exaggeration postcards featured gargantuan animals, fruits, vegetables — a trompe-l’oeil feast delivered for the price of a postage stamp. In spite of the inflated imagery, travelers mailed the souvenir playing cards for a couple of cents as they — nudge, nudge, wink, wink — both poked entertaining at Texas inflated egos or reveled in the state’s bounty.
Not that it’s all a lie. It’s just pushing the reality. Sure, anything is more substantial and improved in Texas,