Caricature

A Caricature is a kind which one will find:

  • In the visual Arts, the subjective painting of the element approached (individual, organization, thought…) who charges certain often ridiculous or unpleasant character traits.
  • In Literature, it also acts of a description which wants to be comic or satirical by the same means: the load of some of the features, being able to even lead to the parody with the show.

The caricatures, in particular in the Written press are with aiming social, political, always critical.

For a portrait, a caricaturist will make more important certain features of the face according to than he seeks to show. A caricature of an organization will seek for example to simplify the remarks to highlight inconsistencies (real or invented). But the caricature does not depreciate however in an obligatory way its subject, because that puts despite everything the being or the organization ahead, which can prove to be an advantage if the load is obvious.

History

The caricature goes back to the highest Antiquity, or at least at the time where arts of the drawing had made some progress. One can suppose that the companies, where the research of the criteria of the beauty was proposed like drank with the artists, contained in them the possibility of seeing being born an antithesis. The companies Greek and Roman seem to have met the conditions of such a blossoming. They undoubtedly knew one and the other the caricature, was this in an embryonic state. Greece had a caricaturist, Pauson, whose name is quoted by Aristophane and Aristote. Graffiti found on the walls of Pompéi appear to confirm this point of view. One found caricatures painted on Greek vases and on the walls of Herculanum and Pompéi, one even met some in the ruins of the old Egypt. The caricatures are often used in the press.

In the press

The caricaturists of talent are required in the Written press day laborer and periodical. Thus, the caricaturists propose the progressive ideas in the various articles in order to show, certainly the defects, but mainly the character traits most specific to an individual, an organization, or any other topic prone to derision… At the 19th century, Honore Daumier was a famous French caricaturist. At the beginning of the 20th century, Hansi puts the caricature at the service of its combat against the annexation of Alsace. Recent authors:

See too

  • to see the : category: Caricaturist

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