humurous or "strange" art - help please

[Tortington]

dh wants kids to buy him a print for xmas. we dont know art but we know what we like iykwim

now am figuring something you have to look twice at. not magic dots or anything just something that makes you either laugh or think ummmmm or urgh
something that makes you look.

i was wondering if you lovely lot of mumsnetters would help me out with either links or artist names i can google

thanks!

Salvador Dali?

thought about him - thanks for the suggestion am i a complete philistine for thinking dali rather kitch?

thanks for answering me though fairymum much appreciated

A Peter Blake print?
Or a Matisse collage?
I'll try to look for links but am hopeless

Matisse collages here:
images.google.com/images?q=matisse+%2B+collage&btnG=Search&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=

Peter Blake here:
images.google.com/images?q=peter+blake&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

What about Magritte. His stuff is attractive and interesting. He used lots of trick of the eye things so his pictures do make you think and look twice.

The link is a google image search of some of his works. Magritte

HTH

Emma xx

what about The Great Bear ?

Ohh I love the great bear - its on my kitchen wall - it spooks people out who just assume its a tube map then double take when they reaslise its not!

Why don't you try Photography,maybe look through Richard Billinghams work. If you go to the library and get I am a Camera, it is a collection of fabulous lense images. It has many different styles and artists so you can see who you lean towards the most. i thnk photographic work is very eyecatching.

You can buy Lucy Mclauchlan prints here. Which i personally love.

I think Esher is your man Custy, I'll try to find a link

It may also help if I spell it correctly:

\link{http://home.comcast.net/~eschermc/

colleague gave me link for banksy - definitely provocative, sometimes urggh, not sure if it's sort of thing you're after, though. And quite a lot of it is Not For Children.

Bugger!

\link{http://home.comcast.net/~eschermc/Escher}

Escher

Click on some of them to enlarge, two of my favourites are Reptiles and Ascending/Descending.

Its impossible to see what they're really like online though as they depend so much on the visual perspective.

thanks everyone! lots to ponder

got to say binkie - love the banksy stuff - not appropriat in house with kids - will remember for when daughter moves out to university - very thought provoking!!

i love the magritte stuff especially the house in the dark - no in the light no in the dark - mesmerising lovelove love it - dh went hmmm -

then suggsted Dali!!!!

wasgoing to say Dali, escher or magritte.