A joke is also at Norman Lindsay’s The Picnic Gods (1907) is a joke.
Usually, Lindsay revels in titillation, naked buxom women, and muscular men. He took as his mission to rid Australia of its prudish sensibilities, and the content of his paintings and etchings characteristically exhibits his disdain for correct social standards and his effusive sensuality
Lindsay’s The Picnic Gods is probably a satire of Bellini’s The Feast of the Gods and a humorous attack on Australian prudery. It depicts Pan and an assortment of satyrs and naked nymphs charging out of the woods to ruin an ordinary middle-class family’s picnic. Lindsay had a wicked sense of humor and continually challenged the staid traditional family values.
See Norman Lindsay. The Picnic Gods (1907). Pen and black ink on white wove paper. National Gallery of Australia