The shirt reads: “ANTARCTIC GOTHIC,” arched above the artwork.
Below it, two penguins stand side by side in front of an igloo — one in dungarees holding a fish upright like a pitchfork, the other in a patterned collar — with a third peering out behind.
It restages American Gothic with penguins and a fish in place of the fork, and the expressions have been copied exactly. The third penguin is an addition the original did not have.
For art history jokes, for penguin people, and for anyone who will recognise the pose before they read the title.
