Miscellaneous objects in caricature

Sense of humour is the ability to show comic in different objects or to give them the comic.

A real artist always wants to express him\herself in different fields of art. During the war J. Effel made small ceramic statuettes of his characters from OWorld CreationO. He also painted scarves, sweet boxes, and travel bags. His characters can be seen on glasses, clocks, cufflinks, and plates.

In Russia during the years of starvation (the 20s) painted Oblack humourO plates were also popular: Owho does not work does not eatO was written near the Lenin portrait.

Any object can be humorous and funny. During the years of Reformation one picture showed a pig on a chair O caricature of Calvin. In France ribbons-pears reminded of Lois Philippe in 1830s. Refined small insects were made on the theatre fans O caricatures of the actors.

After the Russian-French war campaign in 1812 caricatures were painted on the Gardner factory glasses. The French presented to each other chamber pots with famous people portraits, for example, HitlerOs portrait.

In ancient times different things were used in rites and ceremonies. In Mexico, for example, on the Memory Day they cooked biscuits, made toys in the shape of sculls and skeletons.

An iron with thorns or Venus as a chest of drawers O the jokes of the dadaists and surrealists (G. Gross, D. Hartfield). Their ideas were used later by art-designers who make arm-chairs- flowers, dishes with different inscriptions, and tables in a shape of book heaps.

Caricaturists often draw satirical pictures on huge objects such as cars, airplanes, trains, and ships.

The souvenirs sold on caricatures exhibitions and festivals of humour and satire are very popular O a spoon with a hole for those who want to lose weight, a purse for a modest salary, a cup from Gabrovo for men with moustache, false coins, and etc. Objects like that were collected in O12 Chairs ClubO and OLiterary newspaperO. M. Epstein in his essays wrote about philosophy of usual, everyday objects. Earlier K. Marx noticed the psychology of the nation in miscellaneous objects.

In A. BergsonOs opinion only a human being can be funny. What is funny - the objects themselves or the human beings made of different objects (D. Archimboldo).


8. H. Metz. OPikkerO.



1. A plate OWho does not work does not eatO (N. Altman). 1922.



2. Kukriniksi. 1943.



5. V. Kliban.



3. A Chamber Pot. England. 1940s.


6. S. Sakai


4. I. Chernavsky. Pins.


7. A drawing on a saucer.
 



By Dmitry Moskin
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