[Cynette]

Originally Posted by Molten

If the painting is so popular, why haven't I heard of it?

It's famous in this poem by Renee Carter Hall

Polar Bear Eating Vanilla Ice Cream in a Snowstorm

Stare at the blank page
and wait for something to arrive.
Anything.
Remember those little-kid jokes,
how an empty white sheet of paper

was actually a picture
of a polar bear in a blizzard,
and he was eating ice cream,
and it was vanilla ice cream
so it was all white--

but you see him now,
his pink tongue licking the bowl clean,
his massive paws,
the way he lifts his head
to sniff the air,

and the way he looks at you
as the ice floe he's standing on
drifts away
and all your half-formed ideas
fade to white.