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Artful JestersArtists, arguments and studio methods behind comic creativity in visual art

Room 01

Artists

Profiles of the visual jesters: how a painter, sculptor or cartoonist builds a joke, and what the work is arguing about.

03pieces in this room, the latest hung on 06/10/2026

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A single Meissen monkey orchestra figure on a museum shelf, lit from the left, its raised arm and glossy white glaze catching the light against a dark background.
Detail cropped from the same print: A single Meissen monkey orchestra figure on a museum shelf, lit from the left, its raised arm and glossy white glaze catching the light against a dark background.
Inv. AR-003 The whole print and a detail cropped from the same print: Political Caricature and the Art of Exaggeration.

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