caricature
Sign in to savethumb|A Caricature Group John Hamilton Mortimer, 1766 A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon). Caricatures can be either insulting or complimentary, and can serve a political purpose, be drawn solely for entertainment, or for a combination of both. Caricatures of politicians are commonly used in newspapers and news magazines as political cartoons, while caricatures of movie stars are often found in entertainment magazines. In literature, a caricatu
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A caricature is an artistic drawing that exaggerates or simplifies a subject's features through sketching and other techniques, often used to be humorous, insulting, or complimentary. They appear frequently in newspapers and magazines as political commentary or entertainment, particularly in caricatures of politicians and movie stars.
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Research
721 papers- Caricature-visual face recognition based on jigsaw solving and modal decoupling.Scientific reports · 2024
- Caricature.JAMA · 1972
- Caricature and face recognition.Memory & cognition · 1992
- Medical caricature.Heart views : the official journal of the Gulf Heart Association · 2011
- Style attention based global-local aware GAN for personalized facial caricature generation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023
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- Etymology
- History
- Notable caricaturists
- Computerization
- Recognition advantage
- Modern use
- Museums
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thumb|A Caricature Group John Hamilton Mortimer, 1766 A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon). Caricatures can be either insulting or complimentary, and can serve a political purpose, be drawn solely for entertainment, or for a combination of both. Caricatures of politicians are commonly used in newspapers and news magazines as political cartoons, while caricatures of movie stars are often found in entertainment magazines. In literature, a caricature is a distorted representation of a person in a way that exaggerates some characteristics and oversimplifies others.
== Etymology == The term is derived for the Italian caricare—to charge or load. An early definition occurs in the English doctor Thomas Browne's Christian Morals, published posthumously in 1716.