Humor Arts Museum

Online museum for uplifting humorous art in all media
Founded by @jesterofthepeace
By House of Holy Humor, the small town online for big laughs in real life!

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You're invited to celebrate Humor Arts Museum's new online show: Art of the Ring: CIRCUScenes, curated by Karen E. Gersch.

Virtual Reception Sun, May 7th, 4 to 5p ET.
https://t.co/Bjgd1SvnoD

Join our featured artists in conversation about their work and the world of circus!

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Daikokuten

Katsushika Hokusai
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Hokusai (1760-1849) was an ukiyo-e artist of the Edo Period, both a painter and printmaker. He is best known for his woodcut series "Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji."

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Cartoon by Dan Reynolds

Dan Reynolds started drawing at age twenty-nine. He creates greeting cards with American Greetings, Recycled Paper Greetings and Papyrus Greetings. His baseball cartoons are in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

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Manatee & Diver

Karen E. Gersch, Watercolor on cold press paper

✨ Artist Comment ✨

“I love the affability of large sea creatures: seals, dolphins, whales, and certainly manatees; ballerinas of the ocean.”

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Clairvoyance

Rene Magritte, 1936, Oil on canvas​

Magritte was a Belgian surrealist well known for his witty and thought-provoking work.

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Cartoon by Charles Schulz

Schulz's beloved drawings traveled the world and remain relevant in today’s pop culture, with fans who still hope one day Charlie Brown will kick the ball.

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Comic by Christian Talbot & Sophie Hodge

Collaborators do help us feel great.

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Trumpet
Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1984, Print

Basquiat was a neo-expressionist painter and graffiti artist who radicalized the NYC art scene in the 80s. He was friends of and sometimes collaborated with Andy Warhol and Keith Haring. Tragically, he died in 1988 at the age of 27.

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John O’Brien started cartooning later in life, in the late 80s. His career was kicked off by interest from the New Yorker. His drawings center on sight gags rather than captioned illustrations.

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Welcome to cartoon week! This week you can expect to see artworks from our current display, Beloved Cartoons, curated by Robert Quick Bostick. Today’s toon is by Charlie Hankin, a Los Angeles-based artist with credits featuring The New Yorker and Comedy Central.

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Private Indulgence

Georges Croegaert, (1848-1923), Oil on canvas

Croegaert, a Belgium academic painter, spent most of his life in Paris. He was known for his humorous and hyperrealist depictions of Catholic Cardinals eating, drinking and playing chess in their scarlet robes.

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Woman and Horse
Leo Gestel, 1891, Ink on paper
Original at Rijks Museum

Gestel, a Dutch painter who experimented with cubism, expressionism, futurism, and post-impressionism was - as well as Piet Mondrian, one of the leading artists of Dutch Modernism.

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Vincent, Once Again

Barbara Masterson, 2019, Oil on canvas

An award-winning artist, Masterson focuses on the migrant workers who dutifully toil on farms throughout the Hudson Valley, a seemingly unrecognized populace who ensure that crops are cared for and maintained.

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Horned Owl on a Branch

Kubota Shunman, 19th Century, Vintage Japanese print
Original in Minneapolis Institute of Art

Shunman (1757-1820) was as famed for his writing as his remarkably detailed woodcuts. He was a left-handed printmaker, as well as a published novelist and poet.

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PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN WITH A BLACK FICHU
Edouard Manet,1878, Oil on canvas
Original at The Art Institute of Chicago.  
With a minimum of brushstrokes, Manet nailed this unknown lady’s jovial personality. A modernist, he was pivotal in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.

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Second Dream: A Stroll in the Sky

J.J. Grandville (artist), Paul Constant Soyer (engraver), 1820-47, Wood engraving

An illustrator who studied physiological theory and experimented with dream images in art, Grandville considered his dreamwork "metamorphoses of the night".

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Pygmalion and Galatea

Jean-Leon Gerome, 1890, Oil on canvas

A French painter and later sculptor in the Academicism style, Gerome was considered the world's most famous living artist by 1880.

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Falstaff

Edouard von Grutzner, 1921, Oil on canvas

Born to a noble family near Prussia, von Grutzner - a German painter and art professor - was noted for his richly humane portraits of Monks, especially those engaged in drinking. He was one of Munich's leading genre painters.

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Cheering Humor Arts Museum's new show curated by Robert Bostick, Beloved Cartoons.
https://t.co/VwHA3MEq7r
"Cartoons are a magical way to put us into an imaginary scene that can move our feelings from zero to happy in five seconds." - Robert Bostick
Cartoon: Christopher Weyant

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French Penguins, Karen E. Gersch, 2001, Ink on paper

✨ Artist Comment✨

"Next to circus, one of my favorite live sketching venues are in zoos. I have hundreds of drawings from animal habitats around the world. This is from one of my longtime haunts: the Paris Zoo."