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Michael Schur. Parks and Recreation. Television Series. Season 3, Episode 11: "Jerry's Painting."

In this episode, bumbling co-worker Jerry paints a topless picture of the non-canonical centaur goddess Diaphena for an art exhibit. Incidentally, the finished product ends up looking exactly like his boss, Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler). Leslie, instead of being angry at him, loves the painting because it represents her as a strong, powerful woman. She sums up her feelings about the painting as follows: "Every great work of art contains a message, and the message of this painting is 'Get out of my way, unless you want an arrow in your ass.'"

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OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.