Framed Clown Paintings

Nowadays, the thought of clowns is usually played off as an Internet joke, nothing more than a caricature that people pretend to fear in order to be “part of the group”. On the flip side, the art of clowning is seen more like learning childish tricks for pleasing equally childish children. However, when we look deep into the soul of the subject, we find something else. Many framed clown paintings have been made by artists, who realized this truth.

One of the most famous example of framed clown art must be “Pierrot” and “Portrait of a Harlequin” by the world renowned Pablo Picasso. Picasso was an established painter of his own time and the cofounder of Cubist art movement. This painting, which looks very different from his usual style of art, was drawn in 1918. This piece would probably give him inspiration of the cubic form of his subject of the same name.