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species of Acanthaceae Acanthaceae
...such ornamentals as bear’s-breech (Acanthus mollis), clock vine (Thunbergia), shrimp plant (Justicia brandegeeana; formerly known as Beloperone guttata), and caricature plant (Graptophyllum pictum). The largest genera include Justicia (about 600 species; see photograph; now comprising former segregate genera such as ...
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major treatment caricature and cartoon
Caricature is the distorted presentation of a person, type, or action. Commonly, a salient feature or characteristic of the subject is seized upon and exaggerated, or features of animals, birds, or vegetables are substituted for parts of the human being, or analogy is made to animal actions. Generally, one thinks of caricature as being a line drawing and meant for publication for the amusement...
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development of animation motion-picture technology
...frames, normally 24, each a still photograph minutely varied from its predecessor, which record the successive phases of the subject’s movement before the camera. The same motion, or a stylized or caricatured version of it, can be achieved by “stop-motion” or “stop-action” cinematography, the frame-by-frame photographing of a similarly phased series of drawings (see...
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Callot Callot, Jacques
Callot also had a genius for caricature and the grotesque. His series of plates of single or dual figures—for example, the Balli di Sfessania (“Dance of Sfessania”), the Caprices of Various Figures, and the Hunchbacks—are witty and picturesque and show a rare eye for factual detail.
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Daumier Daumier, Honoré
...he worked and that remained there some 30 years occupy an important place in the history of sculpture. Scarcely differing from official busts, but with the accentuation of a detail that made them caricatures, they constitute an unforgettable gallery of the politicians of the July monarchy. The complete series has not been preserved: it included a Louis-Philippe, which Daumier hid, and other...
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Ghezzi Ghezzi, Pier Leone
Italian artist and probably the first professional caricaturist.
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drawing drawing
Clearly connected with illustrative...
in graphic art, comically distorted drawing or likeness, done with the purpose of satirizing or ridiculing its subject. Cartoons are used today primarily for conveying political commentary and editorial opinion in newspapers and for social comedy and visual wit in magazines.
Caricature is the distorted presentation of a person, type, or action. Commonly, a salient feature or characteristic of the subject is seized upon and exaggerated, or features of animals, birds, or vegetables are substituted for parts of the human being, or analogy is made to animal actions. Generally, one thinks of caricature as being a line drawing and meant for publication for the amusement of people to whom the original is known; the personal trait is usually present.
The word caricature derives from the Italian verb caricare (“to load,” “to surcharge” as with exaggerated detail) and seems to have been used first by Mosini in Diverse Figure (1646). The 17th-century sculptor-architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who was a skilled caricaturist, seems to have introduced the word caricatura into France when he went there in 1665. There is perhaps, in the choice of the verb caricare as a source for the noun, some influence from the idea of carattere (Italian: “character”) or even from cara (Spanish: “face”). At any rate, the face is the point of departure for most caricatures. It is conceivable that underlying the series of overlapping profiles with varieties of extraordinary noses and chins and brows which Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer drew independently about 1500 was an observation not only of contemporary human types but of the fact that the heads of rulers on coins and medals, when worn with age, often became ridiculous. A...
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contribution to caricature caricature and cartoon
...rich ground for cartoon as political complaint. As soon as the first stage was over (in 1830), a change of administration was accompanied by the appearance of Charles Philipon’s periodical La Caricature, the first great vehicle of Honoré Daumier, Henri Monnier, “Grandville” (J.-I.-I. Gérard), and others. The presiding genius had great politico-legal skill...
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role of Philipon Philipon, Charles
...with a fertile and irrepressible sense of satire. Moreover, he had vigorous political opinions, an enterprising spirit, and boundless energy. In 1830 he published a journal of political satire, La Caricature. The career of the journal was brief and turbulent; after an avalanche of legal actions, it was suppressed in 1835. Meanwhile, in 1832, Philipon had produced a daily paper (with a...
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cartoons caricature and cartoon
The specifically cartoon-bearing journal was by this time an established fact. The Monthly Sheet of Caricatures had begun publication in London in 1830, lithographed like Philipon’s journals. In these and other ventures, the publisher Thomas McLean issued hundreds of political caricatures during a great formative period of modern legislation; his artist, Robert Seymour, was in the...
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