Humor – IllustrationGraphic Art
Humor in Music: Illustrated with Creativity
The Fusion of Music and Humor, Illustrative Art Inspired by Sound
Explore how humor meets music through vibrant illustrations and creative graphics. These artworks bring a lighthearted yet profound interpretation of sound, perfect for music and art enthusiasts.
10. Tim O'Brien illustration. The Marriage of Figaro for Cincinnati, Listen the music and be silent. copy
Abner Dean. The New Yorker, Nov. 1933
10. Automation in composition with a cyclic theme.
10. Marco Burresi (Firenze 1977) Family Orchestra. 2011, acrylic on paper Canson, 40x60 cm, Treviso, private collection.
Ada Breedveld. The bandaneon in Amsterdam sounds like this.
10. Adolphe Adam charge de Dantan
10. Oswald Barrett, Oxford Univeristy press. Beethoven toward the end.
10. Beethoven by Lisa Perini (Treviso 1973 -) 2020, drawing and watercolor on paper, 42x30 cm
Fantasia cromatica
Alfred Cortot (1877 - 1962) Pianist.
10. Sir Thomas Beecham. 1950.
Alexander Voitsekhovsky. 1
Alberto Tima. Toada nortista. 1930 ca, printing Brasil, Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, University of Illinois.
Alexander Voitsekhovsky 2.
Antonio Vivaldi by John Minnion. penna e inchiostro su carta, Liverpool, 1995
10. Amilcare Ponchielli (Amalfi, Salerno 1863 - Napoli 1920). Caricatura realizzata da Pieretto Bianco, gouache su carta, 30×42 cm, archivio Teatro Opera di Roma
Antonio Vivaldi. Albert Hirschfeld (1903-2003). 1991, penna e inchiostro su carta, private collection New York
10. Anton Maria Zanetti (Venezia 1680 - 1767) Gemianino Giacomelli, musico meraviglioso ( 1692-1740).
10. Artur Schnabel, drawing by Kapp, 1912.
Bakemono Konrei Emaki. mid-19th century, 26 x 131 cm, ink and color on paper, Cleveland Musueum of Art.
Barbara Strozzi by John Minion
Baroque Festival 2024
Bassoon imperial. Drwaing by Victor Malfait (1842-1873) dit Victor Collodion, 1865.
Bassoonist unknown, French, XIX century
Beethoven noted....
10. Bellini by Lisa Perini (Treviso 1973-) 2020, drawing and watercolor on paper, 42x30 cm
Before and after concert
Blows hard you will see that the music comes out.
Caricatura con JC Fischer all-oboe con altri musicisti. acquaforte di Charles Loraine Smith 1782.
Caricatura di Franz Liszt al pianoforte. Litograph, 1845, Paris, Musée Carnavalet
Caricatura di Nicolò Paganini.
Caricatura; KF Abel con la viola da gamba, Ponto con il corno, JC Fischer con l-oboe.
10. Charles Martin (France 1884 - 1934) The tango. Publication of Erik Satie's Sports et divertissements.1923, Paris.
Carlo Marchionni (Roma 1702-1786) "Sonatore di balli che sveglia li sorci per la grand'armonia". Caricatura dal volume collezione Torlonia Villa Albani, Roma
10. Oswald Barrett, Oxford Univeristy press. Chopin returning from his last concert.
Charles Gounod par Etienne Carjat.
Cle?ment-Auguste Andrieux (1829-1880) Welcoming the military band. 1848, 20 x 27 cm, ink on paper, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, California
Corntelis Dusart (1660-1704) 1690
Donizetti. Lisa Perini
Double bass in love with the jazz
10. Cats vocal ensemble
10. Erberto Carboni. ... Ecco. 1960, manifesto della Collezione Salce, Museo Nazionale del Manifesto, Treviso
Double Violin Concerto, 1955, from The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra
Edwin John Prittie (1879-1963) Puzzle-find the Mozart sonata. 1910, pen and ink, private collection Philadelphia.
Edwin John Prittie (1879-1963) Great heavens! You played a wrong note!. 1910 , pen and ink, private collection, Philadelphia
Edwin John Prittie (1879-1963) The Vaseleonowitsch concerto. 1910, pen and ink, private collection.
Edwin John Prittie (1879-1963) Why does the pupil tire of practicing_ 1910, pen and ink, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Erik Satie in the Chat Noir Café, Montmartre, by John Minnion.
10. Enrico Caruso. A Caruso s drawing while recording his first records.
10. Imaginary Chopin in blue .
10. Impromptu d execution trascendante
Emma-Lina Ericson. No P(l)ay. Aritist-s voice. 2015, oil on canvas, Imago Mundi Benetton Collection.
10. Felix Mendelssohn, Caricature
10. Ernest Krenek (Wien 1900-Palm Springs, California 1991) Caricature by Beneditk Dolbin. 1953
10. Benjamin Britten caricature by Benedikt Fred Dolbin.
10. Following the pescriptions in the the score.
Francesco Bertelli. La serenata di Cocalino. Da 'Carnevale italiano mascherato', 1643, incisione.
Franz Liszt by John Minnion.
10. Jànos Jankò (Hungary 1833 - 1896) Franz Liszt caricature. 1873
10. Caricature of Francesco Maria Piave librettist, by Camillo Cima, 1862, Milan Museo Teatro alla Scala.
Franz Liszt alla Stingakademie di Berlino. 1842 detail
10. Franz Liszt a 13 anni, lithography by Leprince 1824
Franz Liszt caricature by Alcide Joseph Lorenz. colour lithography, Paris, Muse?e Carnavalet
10. Frédéric Nicolas Duvernoy (1765-1838) Horn player. 1798.
Frédéric Bouchot (b 1798) Les bonnes téxtes musicales. 1836, 33.7 x 25 cm, hand-colored lithograph on paper, British Museum, London.
Fre?de?ric Bouchot (b1798) Un rival de Musard .1836, 34 x 25, 34 x 25, hand-colored lithograph on paper, British Museum London.
10. Friedrich Philipp Reinhold (1799-1840)- %22Der wandernde Baßgeiger%22.
10. Fuga according to Bach
10. Georges Barbier (Nantes, France 1882 - Paris 1932) Illustration for 'Gazette du Bon Ton', 1922.
10. Gacomo Puccini, self-portrait in a letter to the librettist Luigi Illica. 1895, Piacenza Biblioteca Passerini-Landi.
Giacomo Puccini visto da Enrico Caruso, 1916.
Fritz Spiegl (Austria 1926 - Liverpool 2004) by John Minnion.
Gioachino Rossini caricatura by A Humbert. XIX cntr.
10. Georges Bizet
Giuseppe Verdi ed il cane Lulù.
Giuseppe Verdi in un disegno di Enrico Caruso, 1913
Giuseppe Verdi. disegno di Guido Scarabottolo, 2018
Giuseppe Verdi. illustration by Felix Petruska, 2021
Gordana Andelich Galich. No money, no Music. 2013, 17x17 cm, Imago Mundi Benetton Collection
10. Harp in pink mood.
10. Oswald Barrett, Oxford University Press. Haydn leaves his summer chalet.
10. Gabriel Faure. L Assiette au beurre, 20 aut 1907, Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) triumphs over his predecessor Wilhelm Jahn (1835-1900). Cartoon by Theo Zasche (1862-1922).
Gustav Malher in un disegno di Enrico Caruso, 1918
Hector Berlioz, acquerello di ignoto
10. Harp in the air
Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811) Satira sui cantanti dilettanti-, scchizzo a matita seppia
Igor Stravinski. Illustration Felix Petruska.
J. J. Grandville (1803-1847) Nouveau langage musical. 1829, 16.7 x 27.6, lithograph with hand color, San Francisco Museum of Art.
Jacques Sempé. Les chats musiciennes de Jean
James Galway. Amateurs in music, 1794.
James Gillray (1757-1815) Elizabeth Billington -A bravura air mandane. 1801, 36 x 25.4 cm, hand-coloured etching and stipple engraving, National Portrait Gallery, London.
James Gillray (1757-1815) Little music or the delights of harmony. Yale Center for British Art b
James Gillray (1757-1815) Little music or the delights of harmony. Yale Center for British Art
James Gillray; The Pic-Nic Orchestra, Publisher Hannah Humphrey.
Jean Jacques Sempé (France 1930 - 2022) The New Yorker. nov. 2011
Jean Jacques Sempé. String suite, The New Yorker, sep. 2012
Jean Jacques Sempé. The New Yorker, mar 2006
Jean Jacques Sempé. The New Yorker, Sep. 1949
Jean Jacques Sempé. The New Yorker, sep. 2012
Jean Jacques Sempé. The New Yorker. Oct. 2010
10. James Gillray (1757-1815) Lady Squabb shewing off.
Jean Sibelius by John Minnion.
10. Igor Stravinskij play %22 Le Sacre du printemps%22 drawing by Jean Cocteau
Johann Sebastian Bach jazz session by John Minnion
John Dowland caricature by John Minnion.
John Minnion caricatures book - Sideways to composer.
Jules Massenet (Saint-Erienne 1842 - Paris 1912) Portrait by Henri Thirat. Palazzetto Bru Zane collection, Paris
Jules Massenet (Saint-Etienne 1842 - Paris 1912) caricaure by Manuel Luques. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.
La famiglia Bach in un disegno dell-Ottocento
La musica é un binario che non ha meta.
Leonetto Cappiello. Le Frou-Frou .1899, pastel sur papier, 138 x 101 cm. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
10. Bruckner and Wagner at Bayreuth in a shilouette by Otto Bohler.
Leos Janacek by John Minnion.
Liszt étonnant la fèmme
10. Leonetto Capiello. Une repetition a l Opera-Comique. caricature from Le Figaro 11 october 1903
Liszt in the studio of Gustave Doré. 1914, pen and ink, private collection, Philadelphia.
10. Oswald Barrett, Oxford University Press. Liszt on journey .
Liszt vestito da abate dirige l-orchestra -The Illustrated London News-
10. Liszt in concert. From a Hungarian magazine, 6 April 1873. Drawing by Jànos Jànko.
Little birds resting on the guitar make random sounds. Installation set up at Barbican-s gallery London, 2012
10. Jean Jacques Sempé. L'orchestre au complet, The New Yorker
10. Léon Bakst caricature of Claude Debussy.
Lucianissimo by Hirschfed
10. Luigi Nono. Lisa Perini (Treviso, Italy 1973-) 2020, drawing and watercolor on paper, 42x30 cm.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) accuses Mahler of ‘disfiguring’ his music. Kikeriki 24-04-1902. Year 1902.
M. The New Yorker, oct. 1945
Madame Catalani and The Cambridge Musical Squeeze. Caricature by F Broadway and L Hill. -Morning Post-, 1824, London Theatre Museum
10. Fromental Halevy. Caricature by Carjat, BNF Gallica, Paris.
Mahler concert in Vienna on 1899, by Oskar Garvens. Year 1910.
Mahler as conductor will be replaced with an automation in order to save money. (Der Floh 1906). Year 1906.
Mahler In New York, by Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). Year 1909.
Mahler intruduces a -wind of change to the Vienna Opera-. 1897.
Mahler is rebuked for the way he treats his singers Grete Forst. Year 1902.
Mahler is told there is no audience left in the hall because everyone is needed to perform in his symphony nr 8 of -Thousand-. Year 19
Mahler on a bomb, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) at a rat-a-tat sewing machine, and Richard Strauss (1864-1949). Year 1907.
Mahler with Richard Strauss (1864-1949). Year 1905.
Mahler-s caricature by Hans Bohler (1884-1961). Year 1906.
Mahler, Director change to the Vienna State Opera (Humoristische Blatter, 17-10-1897) Year 1897.
10. Gustav Mahler and Wilhelm Jahn in a caricature by Theodor Zaasche.
Mahler. The singer Sophie Sedlmair tells Mahler he is a tease; ‘You call me, and when I come, you ask who called me, and you order nothing’. Year 1899.
10. Double Bass. Caricature, hand-coloured etching by George Cruikshank. 1813
Man Dancing with Double Bass, 1957, from Hoffnung’s Companion to Music
Maria Pia Morelli. Tributo ad Antonio Canova
Michael Tippett (Eastcote 1905-London 1998) by John Minnion.
Mignon - Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896)
Mirna Sis?ul. Piano piano. 2014, oil on canvas, 17x17 cm, Benetton Collection Imago Mundi
Mordillo - Fugue
10. Maurice Ravel, portrait by A Ouvre, 1911
10. Music everywhere - Bologna Music Festival 2024
Music, I love you.
10. Cello sinking into the sea of musical emotions.
Musica Festival Lucca 2022
Musical drop 1
Musical drop 2
Musical drop 3
10. Musical expressions.
Niccolò Nelli, illustrazioni satiriche del -Naspo bizzarro- di Alessandro Caravia, 1567
10. Anton Maria Zanetti. Domenico Rolli (1685-1751) ink drawing, 1745
New Yorker. Sep. 1961, by Mario Micossi
10. Luigi Nono by Lisa Perini (Treviso 1973 -) 2020, drawing and watercolor on paper, 42x30 cm
Non é più amore, non é più desiderio, è fado.
10. Perfet Trio violin, viola, cello.
Note Book
10. Oswald Barrett, Oxford University Press. Wagner at Munchen.
Out of theme ...... Venini Luce - Chez vous chandelier - Hotel Excelsior, Lido di Venezia, 1960.
P Alston. The New Yorker. Oct. 1934
Peter Arno. The New Yorker, Mar. 928
10. Paderewski, at the next world's fair will play on all the pianos at once. .
Pianiste. Indian ink
Piano a coda
Piano concerto, il valzer dei fiori.
Piano flying
10. Amilcare Ponchielli (Amalfi, Salerno 1863 - Napoli 1920)
Pianoforte - Studio Soleil. 2020
Pier Leone Ghezzi. caricatura del castrato Giacinto Fontana detto Farfallino, 1723
Placido Domingo. caricature by John Minnion. 1991
Pier Leone Ghezzi. caricatura di Leonardo Vinci. 1724. sanguigna su carta.
Portrait de Désiré Dihau (1893) Lithographie par Henri Toulouse-Laultrec.
Presepio -musicale- (Chistmas -musical- crib) 2022, Conegliano, Palazzo Sarcinelli.
Prof. De Notis, Musicista
Richard Outcault (1863-1928) 1897, 27 x 40 cm, ink on paper, Ohio State University Library.
Richard Outcault (1863-1928) 1903, 25 x 35 cm, ink on paper, Ohio State University Libray.
Richard Wagner by Etienne Carjat (1828-1906)
10. Rossini, Opera buffa
10. Rossini by Lisa Perini (Treviso 1973 -) 2020, drawing and watercolor on paper, 42x30 cm
Robert Dighton (1752-1814) The harmonious family. 16.8 x 27.6 cm, drawing; pen and black ink, brushed gray ink, gray wash, cream laid paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon collection.
Ruth Tomlinson (1908–1994) English folk dance and song society
10. Oswald Barrett, Oxford University Press. Schubert returns home from the café.
10. Sempé. Music to cry
10. Sonata for six cellos
10. Studi strumentali di Julius Abram di Munchen.
10. Francisco Goya Y Lucientes (Saragoza, Spain 1746 - 1828) From 24 Capricios. Brabisimo!.
10. Henri Lehmann. Caricature of Franz Liszt at the piano with Luigi Labache who sings and Francois Habeneck. Bibliotheque de la Sorbonne, Paris.
10. Sergio Tofano (Roma 1886 - 1973) Storie di Cantastorie 4. 1919
10. Street musicians. XVIII century
Satyricum
Sempe?, 2020
10. Schubert by Lisa Perini (Treviso 1973 -) 2020, drawing and watercolor on paper, 42x30 cm
Jean-Jacques Sempé, Musica in soffitta
10. Jonathan Burton
10. Sergio Tòfano (Roma 1886 - 1973) Elogio del serpente a sonagli. 1920.
10. Swining Cello in the hall
Taking Notes
10. Rehearsal (Wave the baton)
10. Archi & Musica
The Clavicello player performs a new sonata
The Double Double Bass, 1957, from The Hoffnung Companion to Music
The musical source.
10. Hyacinth bouquet.
10. Arte. Bailando el Tango. 2020, painting on canvas.
The musical thunder and lightning of the bass tuba.
10. The musical staircase leads to the balcony.
The Trout Quintet, 1956, from Hoffnung’s Music Festival
Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) A musical couple. 18th century 18.4 x 15.6 cm, watercolor, San Francisco Museum of Art.
Udo Nolte. Grand Piano – original etching
Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) Concerto spirituale (Johann Christian Bach and Karl Friedrich Abel) 19x16, Art Institute of Chicago
10. M. The New Yorker, oct. 1945
10. Trumpet family
Unknown American. Success of failure_ 1911, pen and ink, private collection Philadelphia
10. Sempé. Thougthful pianist
Unknown Brazilian. Diz meu amor! Samba. printing, Brasil
Unknown. Fallando assim, nao estou errado! printing Brasil, Sousa Archives and Center for American Music.
Unknown. Minha dòr... Samba cancao. printing Brasil, Sousa Archives and Center for American Music.
Unknown. Lero-Lero marcha. 1941, printing Brasil, Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, University of Illinois.
Verdi. Lisa Perini
Vincenzo Bellini. illustration Felix Petruska, 2021.
10. Violoncello I
10. Violoncello. Pencil drawing, collection Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venezia.
10. Violoncello agitato
10. Violoncello II
Violoncello Janusz Grunspek
10. Viola da gamba. Samujan.
10. Viola da gamaba in the storm...
Wagner-s method exposed. American magazine, 1817
William Hogarth (1697-1764) The enraged musician. British Museum, London
Williams, C. (active ca. 1800) A caricature of the singer Elizabeth Billington. 1802, 28.7 x 44.3 cm, printing ink and wash on paper, Victoria and Albert Museum.
10. Caricature by Quino.Triangels the king of orchestra. .
10. Old music harwest.
10. Graphic art music - Chanson d amour
Wrong note !
10. Karl Ernest Lehmann (1814 - 1882) Galop chromatique execute par le Diable de l harmonie. 1843, huile sur toile.
10. Written musical thought.
10. A wrong note again!
10. Female choir in its best performance
10. Drink Singers Ensemble
10. Occult rivalry.
10. Inspiration knows no bounds.
10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Silhouette (1784), by Heinrich Philipp Carl Bossler (1744-1812)
10. Dressed paper doll, XVIII century.
10. Scheduled conductor.
10. Daniel Rabel (1578-1637) Ballet du Serieux et du Grotesque, 1627.
10. Sonate in Mi diesis.
10. Child plays the piano. 2015
10. Where words fail, music speaks.
10. Music is not the notes, but the silence between..
10. E.T.A. Hoffmann. Self-portrait as Johannes Ktreisler with home clothes. 1815, drawing inck and watercolour, 12x12,3 cm, Staatsbibliothek Bamberg.
10. Beethoven manifold
10. Otar Imerlishvili (Georgia 1970 -) Ensemble the Poliphony. 2020, oil on canvas.
10. Mattew Darly (fl. 1741 - 1780) The accomplish'd Maid. 1778.
10. 88 balck and white keys in the air copy
10. Giada Maestra. Galleria Garance & Marion
10. Boîte à violon.
10. Post-modern pianist. Insatllation, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmed Cultural Center, Kuwait.
10. Ghost quartet.
10. Sancho Panza. Monument to Cervantes by Lorenzo Ceullaut Valeria (1876-1932) bronze, 1930, Plaza de Espana, Madrid.