Caricature is indeed a strong tradition that has as many clusters of styles as painting. Different eras seem to favor certain types of caricature. The big head and tiny body seems to be the most sustained tradition for lampooners. Comical modes employ animals or their features and traits; the more abstract, linearity styles, are frequently associated with literature and the performing arts --allowing for exaggerated body movement. Today, with the growing popularity of the graphic novel, two new styles are strongly evident. One is is typified by blocky, simple and flat images (Chris Ware) and the other continues and amplifies the older comic book action hero in elaborate, highly illusionist, almost movie-like scenes. Political cartoons, tend to favor highly expressive lines (for rough newspaper reporduction (undergoing change in the digital age).
Marjane Satrapi's The Complete Persepolis (2003) is an excellent example of the graphic novel-memoir. This is a page turner in which the images express the subtle emotions while the text gives the narrative. Very impressive. Actually, all art is a form of caricature because it involves exaggeration and emotional-expressive intent. WC --- On Mon, 12/8/08, Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Photography and the artworld > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 10:08 AM > One of the visual art traditions, if you would call it > that, which seems > oblivious to photography is charicature. > > Could you call it a tradition ? I don't think so -- > since it seems to be a > practice that is self taught -- even if the practitioner, > like Hirschfeld, > went to an art school. > > ____________________________________________________________ > Love Graphic Design? Find a school near you. Click Now. > http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/PnY6rc22qWt0riZ0vUY1EIObzKxPwj > 5aBIVAofF2FNOa4GGnrXiiI/
