I am back once
again to doing my daily sketches and today I had another go at doing a space
hamster comic strip. You will have noticed that the item in the strip that
becomes the target of destruction is in fact Marcel Duchamp's famous 'Fountain'
during his time with the Dada art movement.
Looking at this strip I wonder why or what it was that compelled
me to draw a strip, destroying a famous piece of art. The only answer that I
can think of is the simple task of communicating humour to the audience, much
the same way as Duchamp did when he submitted a urinal to the Society of
Independent Artists really as to make a joke about the preconceptions of what
is art. Asking myself why I do a drawing is a question I sometimes feel I don't
ask enough of and it is something to consider and exercise in future projects.
I guess the tour guide radio was right, this was thought provoking.
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