ART

Artist’s self-portrait about mortality cartoon

Artist’s self-portrait cartoon

Cartoon showing an artist’s final self-portrait.

The self-portrait is the artist’s cremated ashes.
It’s an artwork about mortality.

Cartoon drawn: 2018

Cartoon reference number: art011

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Cubism cartoon

Cubism cartoon.

A private view in a contemporary art gallery.
One of the quests is introduced as a cubist He’s a cube.

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art036

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
An artist’s vision cartoon

Cartoon about artistic vision

A cartoon showing an artist creating a painting of something that is not actually visible with the unaided eye.

The cartoon shows one artist painting a landscape while another artist does a painting of the moon, which is a tiny detail in the landscape.
A cartoon about art, the moon, eyesight, vision, insight.
Original version drawn: 1998
This version drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art009

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
The etiquette of using a mobile phone in an art gallery

A cartoon about the etiquette of using a cell phone in an art gallery.

The cartoon shows a visitor to an art gallery talking on a mobile phone in the gallery.

The cartoon is about the tensions that can occur in public spaces concerning the inconsiderate use of mobile phones, especially if the user speaks in a load voice and seems oblivious to their surroundings.
Art galleries are usually quiet spaces (although there are some schools of thought that think that they should be more lively (and therefore more accessible to people who feel intimidated by the reverence normally afforded to art).
The other visitors to the gallery are looking very disapproving.

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art015

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Art as a bid for immortality

A cartoon about creating art as a bid for immortality

The cartoon shows an artist working on a painting.
He is saying “While I’m alive I like to think of my work living on when I’m dead, but when I’m dead I probably won’t care one way or the other.”

The cartoon is about the way that people are often motivated in their lives to do things due to the awareness of their own mortality, and the paradox that once they have died they won’t care.
It is interesting to speculate on how much of human activity is motivated by this urge, and what position the human race would be in if we didn’t have the urge.

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art014

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Art snob cartoon

Cartoon showing an art snob looking in distain at some people he judges as less cultured.

A cartoon about elitism in the arts and the snobbery of artistic and aesthetic taste.

Drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art008

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Mondrian cartoon

A cartoon of a man looking at a map that shows the location of a museum dedicated to the art of Piet Mondrian.

The map is in the form of a Mondrian painting.

Original cartoon drawn: 2006
This version: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art032

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Rodin thinker cartoon

Cartoon about Rodin’s sculpture, the Thinker

A cartoon showing August Rodin at work on his sculpture, the Thinker, with the person who is modelling for the sculpture.

Rodin is asking the model “What do you think?”

Original version drawn: 2007
This version drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art007

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Describing visual art in words

Cartoon about the problem of trying to describe visual art in words.

A cartoon about the way that words obscure as much as enlighten.

Original version drawn: 2007
This version drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art006

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Environmental art cartoon – biodegradable art

An environmental art cartoon, showing a piece of contemporary artwork that is 100% biodegradable.

Because the sculpture depicted in the cartoon is biodegradable it will have a limited lifespan that will make it unappealing to art collectors (never mind art conservators).

A cartoon about the art market, art conservation, environmentalism, transient art, gallerists. I’ve been producinng work about environmental issues since the 1970s.

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art035

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Art gallery exhibit – cartoon – what is your greatest wish?

Cartoon about art that asks people questions.

A cartoon about audience participation art installations.

The cartoon is set inside an art gallery, showing an installation in which the participant has to write down their greatest wish.
A cartoon about art predicting the future of society and the world and about the fulfilment of people’s desires and wishes.

Drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art005

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Pop art cartoon – Bridget Riley style op art painting

A Pop Art cartoon, showing a black and white striped canvas in the style of Bridget Riley.

The painting is of a product bar code.
The idea is that although the canvas looks like a piece of abstract art it is in fact a painting of a real object as represented by its bar code.

The cartoon is partly a comment on the digitisation of the physical world.
A cartoon about pop art, op art, modern art, Bridget Riley, digitization, artistic representation.

Original cartoon drawn: 2012
This version: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art033

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Art gallery admission cartoon

Cartoon about buying admission tickets to an art gallery.

Drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art004

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Sponsorship in the arts cartoon

Cartoon about sponsorship in the arts

A cartoon about a possible conflict between sponsorship in the arts and censorship in the arts.

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art010

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Gormley Angel of the North flying – cartoon

Antony Gormley Angel of the North flying

Original version drawn: 2006
This version drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art002

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Gormley Angel of the North cartoon

Cartoon of the Angel of the North by Antony Gormley

The Angel of the North with a propeller hat

Original version drawn: 2006
This version drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art001

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Art gallery funding cartoon

Art gallery funding cartoon.

The cartoon shows an art gallery that uses advertising on its gallery walls to generate income.

The cartoon shows visitors to an art gallery saying “It’s the new financial model for the gallery – every fourth image is an advert.”

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art020

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude art unwrapped cartoon

Cartoon about the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude

A cartoon about Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009) whose signature works were of objects and buildings wrapped in fabric.

The caption of the cartoon is : “I once bought one of their works as a birthday present – and he unwrapped it.”
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s most famous pieces are the wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin; Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1983; the Pont Neuf Wrapped in Paris, 1985; The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 2005; The Floating Piers, Lake Iseo, Italy, 2016; Mastaba, Hyde Park, London, 2018.

Original version drawn: 2007
This version drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art030

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Art collectors cartoon – Donald Judd and antique buddhas

Art collectors cartoon – Donald Judd and antique buddhas.

The cartoon shows a soirée in an apartment belonging to art collectors.
One of the collectors collects Donald Judd sculptures, while the other collects antique buddha figures.
The buddhas are displayed on a Donald Judd installation.

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art041

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Understanding art – cartoon

Understanding contemporary art cartoon.

The cartoon shows a visitor to an art gallery checking the art establishment’s opinion about a work of contemporary art before forming an opinion of his own.

A cartoon about the difficulty of appreciating and understanding some contemporary art.
Contemporary art can often have oblique and esoteric meanings and is frequently aesthetically challenging.

Original version drawn: 2012
This version drawn: 2019

There’s an earlier version of this cartoon here.

Cartoon reference number: art016

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Michelangelo David cartoon

Michelangelo David and Goliath cartoon.

The cartoon shows the sculpture of David by Michelangelo.
An observer is commenting “If that’s his David I’d love to see his Goliath.”.

Original version drawn: 2006
This version drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art017

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Living organic material in contemporary art – cartoon

Cartoon of sculptures created using organic material.

The concept behind this cartoon is that there is a way of incorporating living genetic material or dna into contemporary artworks so that the material manifests itself in some bizarre and unsettling way.

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art044

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Contemporary art cartoon – cryptic crossword

Cartoon of a contemporary artwork in the form of a crossword – very cryptic.

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art040

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Cartoon – contemporary art aimed at the selfie taking Instagram generation

Art aimed at the Instagram generation.

The cartoon shows artworks in an art gallery in which the works are in the form of speech bubbles with quotes in them.
The quotes are clichés poking fun at modern art and contemporary art: But is it art? and A child of six could do it!
Gallery visitors pose beneath the quotes and have selfies or photos taken of themselves.

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art056

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Conceptual art cartoon – invisible art

Contemporary art cartoon – conceptual art.

A contemporary art cartoon showing a conceptual sculptural artwork on a plinth where the material that the work is composed of is pure thought.

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art055

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Social media in contemporary art cartoon

Digital language enters contemporary art.

The cartoon shows a contemporary art painting that resembles a social media emoji.
The fact that the visitors to the art gallery think that the painting is capturing emotion and is expressing emotion is partly meant to show the emotional banality and superficiality of a lot of social media.

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art048

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Giacometti cartoon – selfie stick man

A cartoon about Giacometti’s stick men sculptures.

The figure in the cartoon is taking a selfie of himself, with his phone on a selfie stick.
The sculpture is titles Selfie Stick Man.

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art043

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Marcel Duchamp cartoon – urinal drinking fountain

Dada cartoon – Marcel Duchamp’s urinal drinking fountain.

The cartoon shows a fictitious artwork by Dadaist artist Marcel Duchamp in the form of a urinal mounted on a wall.
The work is titled Drinking Fountain.
The artwork is based on Duchamp’s work Fountain.

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art042

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Antony Gormley cartoon – at the psychiatrist’s

Is Antony Gormley a narcissist?

The cartoon is about the psychological motives behind Antony Gormley’s desire to populate the planet with multiple representations of himself.
I’ve heard him say that he’s been accused of narcissism. But then what artist can’t be accused of more than a bit of self-obsession?

Original version drawn: 2007
This version drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art047

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
Colour blind art cartoon

A cartoon of a piece of contemporary art in the form of a colour blindness test.

As with a lot of contemporary art the viewers of the art are trying to work out what the piece is about.
One of them says that he can’t see anything in it. This is because he is colour blind and can’t see the number five in the piece.

The colour blindness test is the Ishihara test, in which numbers are created from differently coloured dots in a field of other dots. Colour blind people can’t always see the numbers, depending on their form of colour blindness.

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art045

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

ART

Artist’s self-portrait cartoon

Cartoon showing an artist’s final self-portrait.

The self-portrait is the artist’s cremated ashes. It’s an artwork about mortality. Cartoon drawn: 2018

Cartoon reference number: art011

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art. See the book here.

Cubism cartoon.

A private view in a contemporary art gallery. One of the quests is introduced as a cubist He’s a cube.

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art036

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art. See the book here.

Cartoon about artistic vision

A cartoon showing an artist creating a painting of something that is not actually visible with the unaided eye.

The cartoon shows one artist painting a landscape while another artist does a painting of the moon, which is a tiny detail in the landscape. A cartoon about art, the moon, eyesight, vision, insight. Original version drawn: 1998 This version drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art009

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art. See the book here.

A cartoon about the etiquette of using a cell phone in an art gallery.

The cartoon shows a visitor to an art gallery talking on a mobile phone in the gallery.

Cartoon reference number: art015

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art. See the book here.

A cartoon about creating art as a bid for immortality

The cartoon shows an artist working on a painting. He is saying “While I’m alive I like to think of my work living on when I’m dead, but when I’m dead I probably won’t care one way or the other.”

Cartoon reference number: art014

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art. See the book here.

Cartoon showing an art snob looking in distain at some people he judges as less cultured.

A cartoon about elitism in the arts and the snobbery of artistic and aesthetic taste.

Drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art008

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art. See the book here.

A cartoon of a man looking at a map that shows the location of a museum dedicated to the art of Piet Mondrian.

The map is in the form of a Mondrian painting.

Original cartoon drawn: 2006 This version: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art032

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art. See the book here.

Cartoon about Rodin’s sculpture, the Thinker

A cartoon showing August Rodin at work on his sculpture, the Thinker, with the person who is modelling for the sculpture.

Rodin is asking the model “What do you think?” Original version drawn: 2007 This version drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art007

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art. See the book here.

Cartoon about the problem of trying to describe visual art in words.

A cartoon about the way that words obscure as much as enlighten.

Original version drawn: 2007 This version drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art006

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art. See the book here.

An environmental art cartoon, showing a piece of contemporary artwork that is 100% biodegradable.

Because the sculpture depicted in the cartoon is biodegradable it will have a limited lifespan that will make it unappealing to art collectors (never mind art conservators).

A cartoon about the art market, art conservation, environmentalism, transient art, gallerists. I’ve been producinng work about environmental issues since the 1970s.

Cartoon reference number: art035

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art. See the book here.

Cartoon about art that asks people questions.

A cartoon about audience participation art installations.

The cartoon is set inside an art gallery, showing an installation in which the participant has to write down their greatest wish. A cartoon about art predicting the future of society and the world and about the fulfilment of people’s desires and wishes. Drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art005

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art. See the book here.

A Pop Art cartoon, showing a black and white striped canvas in the style of Bridget Riley.

The painting is of a product bar code. The idea is that although the canvas looks like a piece of abstract art it is in fact a painting of a real object as represented by its bar code.

The cartoon is partly a comment on the digitisation of the physical world. A cartoon about pop art, op art, modern art, Bridget Riley, digitization, artistic representation. Original cartoon drawn: 2012 This version: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art033

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art. See the book here.

Cartoon about buying admission tickets to an art gallery.

Drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art004

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art. See the book here.

Cartoon about sponsorship in the arts

A cartoon about a possible conflict between sponsorship in the arts and censorship in the arts.

Cartoon drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art010

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art. See the book here.

Antony Gormley Angel of the North flying

Original version drawn: 2006 This version drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art002

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art. See the book here.

Cartoon of the Angel of the North by Antony Gormley

The Angel of the North with a propeller hat

Original version drawn: 2006 This version drawn: 2019

Cartoon reference number: art001

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art. See the book here.

Art gallery funding cartoon.

The cartoon shows an art gallery that uses advertising on its gallery walls to generate income.

The cartoon shows visitors to an art gallery saying “It’s the new financial model for the gallery – every fourth image is an advert.” Cartoon drawn: 2019

The self-portrait is the artist’s cremated ashes.
It’s an artwork about mortality.

Cartoon drawn: 2018

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

A private view in a contemporary art gallery.
One of the quests is introduced as a cubist He’s a cube.

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

The cartoon shows one artist painting a landscape while another artist does a painting of the moon, which is a tiny detail in the landscape.
A cartoon about art, the moon, eyesight, vision, insight.
Original version drawn: 1998
This version drawn: 2019

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

The cartoon shows an artist working on a painting.
He is saying “While I’m alive I like to think of my work living on when I’m dead, but when I’m dead I probably won’t care one way or the other.”

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

Original cartoon drawn: 2006
This version: 2019

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

Rodin is asking the model “What do you think?”

Original version drawn: 2007
This version drawn: 2019

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

Original version drawn: 2007
This version drawn: 2019

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

The cartoon is set inside an art gallery, showing an installation in which the participant has to write down their greatest wish.
A cartoon about art predicting the future of society and the world and about the fulfilment of people’s desires and wishes.

Drawn: 2019

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

The painting is of a product bar code.
The idea is that although the canvas looks like a piece of abstract art it is in fact a painting of a real object as represented by its bar code.

The cartoon is partly a comment on the digitisation of the physical world.
A cartoon about pop art, op art, modern art, Bridget Riley, digitization, artistic representation.

Original cartoon drawn: 2012
This version: 2019

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

Original version drawn: 2006
This version drawn: 2019

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

Original version drawn: 2006
This version drawn: 2019

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

The cartoon shows visitors to an art gallery saying “It’s the new financial model for the gallery – every fourth image is an advert.”

Cartoon drawn: 2019

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

The cartoon shows a soirée in an apartment belonging to art collectors.
One of the collectors collects Donald Judd sculptures, while the other collects antique buddha figures.
The buddhas are displayed on a Donald Judd installation.

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

The cartoon shows the sculpture of David by Michelangelo.
An observer is commenting “If that’s his David I’d love to see his Goliath.”.

Original version drawn: 2006
This version drawn: 2019

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.

This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.