HUMOUR

JUDITH LEYSTER

Judith Leyster 1609–1660 Judith Leyster, an independent artist with her own workshop and pupils, had a talent for painting lively scenes of people enjoying themselves in taverns or playing music.

THE DADAISTS Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland. It arose as a reaction to World War I and the nationalism that many thought had led to the war. Influenced by other avant-garde movements - Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Expressionism - its output was wildly diverse, ranging from performance art to poetry, photography, sculpture, painting, and collage. Dada's aesthetic, marked by its mockery of materialistic and nationalistic attitudes, proved a powerful influence on artists in many cities, including Berlin, Hanover, Paris, New York, and Cologne, all of which generated their own groups. The movement dissipated with the establishment of Surrealism, but the ideas it gave rise to have become the cornerstones of various catogeries of modern and contemporary art.

BERYL COOK Beryl Cook, OBE (10 September 1926 – 28 May 2008) was an English artist best known for her original and instantly recognisable paintings. Often comical, her works pictured people whom she encountered in everyday life, including people enjoying themselves in pubs, girls shopping or out on a hen night, drag queen shows or a family picnicking by the seaside or abroad.[1] She had no formal training and did not take up painting until her thirties.[2] She was a shy and private person,[3] and in her art often depicted the flamboyant and extrovert characters she would like to be

JEAN-CHARLES DE CASTELBAJAC Jean-Charles, marquis de Castelbajac[1] (also known as JC/DC,[2] born 28 November 1949 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a fashion designer. He has enjoyed international success with some of his creations, including a coat of teddy bears worn by pop starMadonna

AARDMAN ANIMATION Aardman Animations, Ltd., also known as Aardman Studios, or simply as Aardman, is a British animation studio based in Bristol. Aardman is known for films made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, particularly those featuring Plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit. After some experimental computer animated short films during the late 1990s, beginning with Owzat (1997), it entered the computer animation market with Flushed Away (2006).

MINALIMA DESIGN It all started back in 2001, when Miraphora (Mina) and Eduardo (Lima) met on the set of Harry Potter. They chatted, shared work, found similarities in ideas, chatted some more, and smiled lots. Over a decade later, we're still smiling. Partly thanks to the success we found designing the graphic props for all the Harry Potter fims. But also because of the people we meet, way we approach work, and designs we create. MinaLima is simply our happy personalities combined.

WILLIAM HOGARTH

William Hogarth FRSA (/ˈhoʊɡɑːrθ/; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian"