caricature

     

A caricature is either a portrait that exaggerates or istorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness, or in literature, a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others.

Trivia about caricature

  • It's the 4-syllable term for a satirical portrait that exaggerates or distorts a person's features
  • Thomas Rowlandson, whose work in seen here, was a master of this form, from Italian for "to load"
  • Daumier pioneered this type of exaggerated cartoon by showing King Louis Philippe as a giant pear

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