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Tag Archives: cartoon
Punch Cartoon 43
Originally posted on The Humour of the Great War:
In 1913, the year before the start of the Great War, a major exhibition in New York introduced the Americans to European modern art and to cubism in particular. Cubism was…
Posted in Art, Artists, exhibition, Reblog
Tagged armory show, armoury show, cartoon, cubism, cubist
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28 Drawings Later – Half-Time Reflection
Note: My links do not have a green thing next to them. Those are the WordPress adverts. I’m currently taking part in the activities of a Facebook group called 28 Drawings Later who are encouraging people to draw every day … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Drawing, Sketchbook
Tagged art, artist, Bolton, bolton museum, cartoon, doffcocker lodge, Drawing, elie nadelman, giacometti, guggenheim, moma, native americans, New York, picasso, punch, Sketching, whitney
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Artists Know To Dig Deeper
This was the title of an item on Hyperallegic which featured a gem of a cartoon by Lauren Purje. In the future, I’m going to have difficulty trying not to smile when someone is earnestly talking about ‘visual communication’. I just … Continue reading
Calvin’s Artist Statement
Having commented several times about artist’s statements (such as The Bovine Doo Doo Award, Transveral? It’s IAE! and The Anti-artist-statement statement), when I saw this I had to share it! No further comment is necessary!
In Defense of the Artist Statement
A month ago, I wrote about Iris Jaffe’s article “The Anti-artist-statement Statement.” In the interest of balance, here is a link to a reply by Robin Grearson. What pulled me to the article was this superb Calvin and Hobbs cartoon:
Posted in Art
Tagged art, artists statements, calvin and hobbs, cartoon, Hyperallergic, iris jaffe, robin grearson
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Can’t You Take an Art Joke? – A Reblog from Hyperallergic
This cartoon was on a blog by Lauren Purje on Hyperallergic. Unfortunately I couldn’t work out how to reblog other than by copying and pasting. I felt it needed sharing!
Posted in Art, Cartoon, Reblog
Tagged art, cartoon, humour, Hyperallergic, joke, Lauren Purje, magritte
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notes to the milkman 