Yet Polke had a pleasingly uninsistent feeling for worn and lowly items — whether inexpensive, commercially printed fabrics or cheesy images from
newspaper cartoons showing tubby office manager nobodies storming off in different directions — and this feeling for the everyday lent an unobtrusive human warmth to his work.
That is the story of Nigeria this collection of
newspaper cartoons shows, with masterful strokes.
Not exact matches
Laliberte rejected a recent
newspaper cartoon that
showed U.S. flags flying over the Cirque's big top.
And the
cartoon in Swiss
newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung which
showed the hapless May as a boxer slumped on the ropes after punching herself out.
She's best known for the Moomins, a loveable family of round, hippo - like creatures, brought to life in a series of
newspaper cartoons and books, but there's much more to Tove Jansson — as this retrospective aims to
show.
As he prepared the
show, however, Marshall decided that «multiple fronts were needed to set forth a black aesthetic» and the exhibition then expanded into the museum's two main second floor galleries with paintings, sculpture, photographs, videos, installations, drawings and excerpts from the artist's
cartoon series RYTHM MASTR, which originally began as a
newspaper comic strip at the 1999 Carnegie International exhibition.
Using computer graphics, printmaking,
cartoon and
newspaper appropriations, impasto - like chunks of paint, and every other gesture and technique under the sun, Owens
shows massive, colorful canvases that are simultaneously rapturous and amusing.
Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)(1912) was considered scandalous and roundly mocked by the media of the day, such as in a March 1913 Cubist - inspired
cartoon in The Evening Sun
newspaper, seen in reproduction in the
show, that depicted «The Rude Descending a Staircase (Rush Hour at the Subway).»