Caricature and British Schools
CARICATURES
Caricatures are portraits of a person in which the artist exaggerates, or over-simplifies, a specific feature for the purpose of amusement/humor. An example: a portrait of a woman who talks a lot, the artist may draw her with extremely large lips. Caricatures can be insulting or complimentary and can serve a political purpose.
The key difference between caricature and a portrait of someone is the intentional distortion of the subject in caricature. This distortion is difficult because the features of the subject are what make the subject recognizable, when you start fooling around with these features, and then one runs the risk of loosing the likeness of the subject.
British Schools 20th Century, Caricature of a Man in Profile to left- DATE NOT KNOWN
British Schools 20th Century, Caricature of a Man in Profile to left- DATE NOT KNOWN
The artist of this caricature’s name doesn’t show that the artist was creating this caricature for his desire. Instead, I think this caricature had the intention to serve for maybe political uses, but more probably for advertising schools. Because at those times, it still wasn’t pretty much compulsory to attend school of any form. The artist has (distorted) enlarged the area of the head. I believe that the character in this picture is a teacher or a proctor, of some school, and has had his facial features subtly enlarged. This could suggest that he is an exceptional teacher/proctor, for those days’ standard. With eyes that are very vigilant, ears that hear even tiny murmurs, maybe the big nose suggests that he is even a little snoopy, and possibly that he’s a strict discipline practitioner! This person is portrayed as the perfect example of school professors of that time through his small distortion of his head.
British Schools 18th century, Lord Burlington, DATE-NOT-KNOWN
British Schools 18th century, Lord Burlington, DATE-NOT-KNOWN
In this caricature, LORD BURLINGTON is the artist in
Caricatures are portraits of a person in which the artist exaggerates, or over-simplifies, a specific feature for the purpose of amusement/humor. An example: a portrait of a woman who talks a lot, the artist may draw her with extremely large lips. Caricatures can be insulting or complimentary and can serve a political purpose.
The key difference between caricature and a portrait of someone is the intentional distortion of the subject in caricature. This distortion is difficult because the features of the subject are what make the subject recognizable, when you start fooling around with these features, and then one runs the risk of loosing the likeness of the subject.
British Schools 20th Century, Caricature of a Man in Profile to left- DATE NOT KNOWN
British Schools 20th Century, Caricature of a Man in Profile to left- DATE NOT KNOWN
The artist of this caricature’s name doesn’t show that the artist was creating this caricature for his desire. Instead, I think this caricature had the intention to serve for maybe political uses, but more probably for advertising schools. Because at those times, it still wasn’t pretty much compulsory to attend school of any form. The artist has (distorted) enlarged the area of the head. I believe that the character in this picture is a teacher or a proctor, of some school, and has had his facial features subtly enlarged. This could suggest that he is an exceptional teacher/proctor, for those days’ standard. With eyes that are very vigilant, ears that hear even tiny murmurs, maybe the big nose suggests that he is even a little snoopy, and possibly that he’s a strict discipline practitioner! This person is portrayed as the perfect example of school professors of that time through his small distortion of his head.
British Schools 18th century, Lord Burlington, DATE-NOT-KNOWN
British Schools 18th century, Lord Burlington, DATE-NOT-KNOWN
In this caricature, LORD BURLINGTON is the artist in