Humor in contemporary art.
The cartoon shows a visitor to an art gallery giving the reasons why he likes a particular piece of contemporary artwork.
The main reason he likes it is because liking it makes him feel superior to people who don’t like it.
The artwork in the cartoon is a typical trope of a challenging piece of contemporary sculpture, in that the artwork appears to be craftless, ugly and a bit revolting.
The humour in this cartoon is about pretension, snobbery and elitism in the art world.
Cartoon drawn: 2019
Cartoon reference number: art051
This cartoon features in my book of cartoons about art.
See the book here.
