Occupy Art History!: Pepper-Spraying Cop Turns Up In Iconic Paintings

“Lt. John Pike, the U.C. Davis campus police officer who pepper-sprayed passive student protesters, is popping up in some of the world’s most famous paintings” – Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, Christina’s World, Guernica, even the Sistine Chapel ceiling – “as part of an Internet meme intended to shame him for his actions.”