Humor in Art, Cartooning, and Architecture

Artists often incorporate the humor, parody, paradox, exaggeration (caricature) and irony in their art. This especially true in the art of Salvador Dali, Marcel Du Champs, M. C. Escher, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollack. We also discuss humor in public art, and architecture. Because art is a distortion of reality, we classify art as Abstract Expressionism, Dadaism, Expressionism, Minimalism, Maximalism (e.g. Gothic), Realism, Surrealism etc.

“The Metamorphosis of M. C. Escher,” by Rakesh Ramchurn:

https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/practice/culture/the-metamorphoses-of-mc-escher

Surrealism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtPBOwE0Qn0

Hand Drawn Life: The History and Influence of Newspaper Comic Strips

by Tom Tanquary with R. C. Harvey:

http://www.handdrawnlife.com/about.html

Six Funny Buildings:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2010/mar/31/six-weird-wonderful-buildings

Twelve Funny Buildings:

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/12-strange-buildings

International Society for Humor Studies: http://www.humorstudies.org/

Nilsen, Alleen and Don. The Language of Humor: An Introduction. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2019. www.cambridge.org/core/books/language-of-humor/B37E80D6A21DB3A2E344A4061D996D9C