Essential functions of caricature is to relax, to entertain and attract attention, but also to balance the visual aesthetics of any printed pages and not ultimately to illuminate by relevance. A successful cartoon may have a direct target and can be more eloquent than many other visual or auditory means of complex and / or sophisticated.
Caricature is intentionally amplified or distorted representation, usually grotesque, by exaggerating certain features of physical appearance or character of a person (face, body, moral or mental characteristics), or a situation. With various ways of expression, as its intended goal (batch friendly, humorous, satirical, critical, attracting attention) is achieved by means of graphic caricature different in pencil, in pen and watercolor or gouache even, that is rarely in painting or sculpture.
Figurative art present in all peoples and all times, its beginnings in antiquity probably old place, as attested by drawing on papyrus or mythological scenes parodies on Greek vases. The first dating, we know, such an ironic notation dates back about 7,000 years ago, on a papyrus Egyptian. The image is an orchestra zoo, a lion that plays the lyre, the harp a donkey, a monkey and a crocodile at a whistle from a flute.
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