Do artists who use everyday humour in their work mirror life, or does life mirror art? And is quotidian humour something everyone can relate to or is it only relative to our own experiences?

I can relate to these art works as a young person and as an art student.

I find Laure Provost's work touching and her means of communicating humour quite beautiful. Slips of the tongue that I can relate to in her work include misinterpreting one word for another, leading to another fluid but different conversation that can be heart warming.

Girl Chewing Gum is funny to me because it prompts a sense of anticipation and then understanding once 'we get the joke' and the humour in works such as David Shrigley's Life Model became more apparent to me after experiencing life drawing classes at college. 

Life and art can arguably be seen to mirror each other in the sense that they influence each other. Shrigley's Life Model mirrors life becoming art when considering the involvement from the audience for the piece, and John Smith mirrors art with his use of documentation in Girl Chewing Gum. Life and art bounce off each other in an on going loop; an influence for many artists when creating their art.

However, not everyone may react to everyday humour in the same way as I do. Everyone has their own opinion on what they find humorous and what they don't. But just because everyone may not consider all of these examples to be funny doesn't mean they don't relate to the experiences of others elsewhere, and that these people don't find them funny. 

We react to the everyday in various ways, not everyone has the same perception or sense of humour or else it would become worn out, bland, and dull just like the endless routine of the everyday that much humour senses to make fun of and make palatable. By having various, humorous responses to the everyday we have more depth into what is humorous and what is just plain silly, but makes us smile. 

I have found all the examples I have shown to link fun to the everyday. It cannot be justified fully that I am right or wrong about the examples I have given. I have analysed a range of pieces that use different formats and from different times.

I think I have shown that the use of quotidian humour in these pieces relates perhaps most strongly to those who have experienced what they question or provoke. For example, people who experience the routine and the characters from the hierarchy of the workplace perhaps relate to comedy such as 'The Office' and John Wood and Paul Harrison's 10x10.

However, for me, all these works have the power to more me with their humour, pathos and bathos. The quotidian in the end, relates to the majority of us and its something we can all therefore relate to.