surrealism

  • Magritte pastiche cartoon

    Magritte pastiche cartoon

    Magritte: pastiche of The Treachery of Images.

    A cartoon showing a Samsung mobile phone in the style of a Magritte painting, with the words ‘This is not an apple’ written under it. The phone is not an Apple iPhone.
    The cartoon is a pastiche of Magritte’s painting The Treachery of Images (La Trahison des images), which is a painting of a pipe with the words ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe’ (This is not a pipe) written below it.

    Original cartoon drawn: 2013
    This version drawn: 2019
    Cartoon reference number: art110

    This cartoon is in my book of cartoons about art.
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  • Surrealism cartoon

    Surrealism cartoon. Man Ray iron with nails (cadeau)

    Modern art disrupting classical art – Man Ray’s Cadeau.

    A cartoon illustrating the effect of modern art movements such as surrealism on traditional and classical art.
    A man (possibly Man Ray) is slashing a traditional landscape oil painting using Man Ray’s surrealist sculpture Cadeau, a flat iron with a row of nails attached to it.

    Original cartoon: 2007
    This version: 2019
    Cartoon reference number: art061
    This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
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  • Rene Magritte cartoon

    Rene Magritte cartoon

    Magritte cartoon – pastiche of Golconde.

    A cartoon based on the Rene Magritte surrealist painting Golconde in which Magritte is painting a surreal image of raining men. The image seems to be imaginary, however in the cartoon Magritte can be seen to be painting the reality that is in front of him.
    A cartoon about surrealism, realism, reality, imagination.

    Concept: 2007
    Drawn: 2019
    Cartoon reference number: art060
    This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
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  • Salvador Dali surreal lobster telephone cartoon

    Salvador Dali surreal lobster telephone cartoon

    Surrealism cartoon – Salvador Dali lobster telephone and shrimp cell phone

    Cartoon showing Salvador Dali’s surrealist telephone, along with a mobile phone that he may have imagined if they had existed then.

    Original cartoon drawn: 2010
    This version drawn: 2019
    Cartoon reference number: art013
    This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
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