Tag: humour

brooklynmuseum:

Drawing from the live model has a long tradition not only in the history of art, but also the at the Museum. Dating back to 1841, BKM has provided hands-on art education by organizing drawing classes. A century later, Brooklyn Museum Art School opened as a non-degree professional school for artist. This advertising poster produced for the School in 1974 provided a humorous take on the dynamic between artists and models. 

related post by Elliott Erwitt, here

Beverly Buchanan (American, 1940–2015) :: ‘‘Hunger and Hardship Creek’’ Postcard, 1977. Postcard Private collection
Beverly Buchanan reworked this satirical self-portrait into multiple postcards, subsequently titling some of them C.A. Moore’s Picture of a Starving Artist, Dublin, Georgia. Located sixty miles south of Macon, Hunger and Hardship Creek was so named for the struggles it witnessed. Buchanan may have been there to visit the area’s Native American Mississippian mounds, which are similar to the monumental Ocmulgee mounds in her then-hometown of Macon.