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).