Caricature
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CARICATURE (Ital. caricatura, i.e. "ritratto ridicolo," from caricare, to load, to charge; Fr. charge), a general term for the art of applying the grotesque to the purposes of satire, ...
Caricature
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Caricature
A caricature is a painting, or more usually drawing, of a person or thing in which the features and form have been distorted and exaggerated in order to mock or satirise the subject.
Caricature is most common in drawings and editorial cartoons, but Honoré Daumier (French, 1808-1879) made several sculptural examples.
(pr. ca"ri-kuh-chuhr')
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Political Caricature
Die politische Karikatur im II. Weltkrieg ...
caricature
A drawing, cartoon or other method of representation in which certain select features of the subject are carefully exemplified to create an image that often parodies the subject.
CARICATURE character studies that usually exaggerate one or more features.
CARTOON full-scale drawing for tapestry or wall painting; or a humorous satirical drawing.
CARVING a subtractive method of sculpture; taking away wood or stone.
Caricature: Art that exaggerates the qualities, defects, or peculiarities of a person or idea, usually in a humourous manner. Traditionally used in editorial cartooning. - Example: Honoré Daumier.
caricature A representation in which the subject's distinctive features are exaggerated.
cartoon 1. A humorous or satirical drawing. 2. A drawing completed as a full-scale working drawing, usually for a fresco painting, mural, or tapestry.
Caricature. The representation of a person's characteristic features or attitudes in an exaggerated manner so as to produce a ludicrous effect; in frequent use as an instrument of social and political satire.
Caricature
A representation of a person or thing in which the characteristic features are exaggerated, generally for the purpose of satire or humor. To some degree, caricature is practiced in most portraiture.
Art Glossary: Caricature
An explanation of what the 'caricature' means in an art context.
Art Glossary: Cartoon
An explanation of what 'cartoon' means in an art context.
caricature - artistic representation of a person with ludicrous or gross distortion or exaggeration of distinguishing characteristics; emphasis of salient features in a portrait or character ...
Caricature, Self-Portrait (1889 AD)
Cattle Drinking (1885 AD)
Cavalier Devant La Case (1902 AD)
Chicken Coup (1873 AD)
Children in the Pasture (1884 AD)
China Asters, Hat and Book (1876 AD)
Chou Quarries at Pontoise I (1882 AD) ...
Caricature
Painting or drawing, usually a portrait, that exaggerates features for humorous or satirical effect.
Carolingian art ...
as opposed to the dynamic and vibrant observation of the New English - a caricature of course, as are all such comparisons.
Caricature - A portrait that exaggerates or distorts the features of a person is called a caricature ...more info
Cartoon - In art a cartoon is a drawing of the compisition of the final work ...more info ...
caricature A picture ludicrously exaggerating the qualities, defects, or peculiarities of a person or idea. cartoon A humorous sketch or drawing usually telling a story or caricaturing some person or action.
With "The Goat and Her Three Kids", written mainly as a picturesque illustration of motherly love,[98] Creangă produced a fable in prose, opposing the eponymous characters, caricatures of a garrulous but hard-working woman and her restless sons, ...
Painting that articulates its proximity to caricature, so as to be able to bring violence, wit, politics and the grotesque into play.
At the time, Gauguin's likeness was described by friends as an "unkind character sketch"—a caricature. Today, it is the subject of intense analysis. Some see the artist casting himself in the role of Satan, others as Christ.
Now Catholic reformers wished to pare religious art down to its essentials, and the good-living cardinal, whose ample features were to be sculpted and caricatured by Bernini, acquired a painting that was as austere as it was sombre.
The Mesopotamian style employed a strong, solid use of line in drawing the human figure, with an emphasis on facial expressions which often bordered on caricature. They painted in bright, brilliant, and contrasting colors, using fresh, vivid hues.
Florian Altar - with a realism so forceful and uncompromising that it is easy to think of it, quite wrongly, as caricature. Each of the figures was individually motivated, playing a clear psychological role in the drama as a whole.
cartoon: a single caricature or comic drawing. Prior to the 19th century it referred to a full-size preliminary drawing for a painting or tapestry.
When painted by them, priests, well-to-do middle-class capitalists, judges and military figures all became much more than mere caricatures.
His artistic career spanned roughly 40 years from his 1887 work as a caricature artist, to his professorship at the Munich Akademie (his students included Kandinsky and Klee), through his fame as one of Munich's best-known painters.
How do the photographs present gender? In what ways do they either present stereotypes of men and women, or else caricature male and female stereotypes?
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a Post-Impressionist artist who depicted the dancers, prostitutes, drinkers, and other characters of fin-de-siecle Paris. He is known for his paintings, his caricatures of friends, ...
forms arise, not directly form observed reality, but form subjective reactions to reality. Also, any art in which conventional ideas of Realism and Proportion seem to have been overridden by the artist's emotion, with resultant caricatured, ...
Among his subjects were men, women, horses, dogs, trees, flowers, fruit, moving water, monsters, caricatures, anatomy, architecture, mechanical diagrams, and maps. These incredible records were almost lost .
a "Lady with a Dog" (at Frankfort), perhaps the first portrait ever painted in which the sitter's social position was insisted upon as much as the personal character. What Pontormo sank to, we see in such a riot of meaningless nudes, all caricatures ...
 See also: Painting, Portrait, Expression, Composition, Movement
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