Synopsis for the Cartoon Special Closed Mondays

"Closed Mondays" explores the relationship of art to life. As a skeptical old wino wanders into a deserted art museum, the works of art displayed there shift momentarily from the world of illusion to the world of reality: an abstract painting explodes with rhythmic movement, a Rousseau jungle releases its captive images, a Dutch scrubwoman talks about her plight, and a kinetic sculpture comes briefly and breathtakingly to life.

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