Robin Li Professor D’ Augustine This document discusses caricature and satire in art. It provides examples of caricature that exaggerate physical features and portray people as objects. Examples of satirical art mock various social topics like fashion, vanity, and politics. The document examines these genres of art intended to ridicule people through exaggeration and irony from different periods. It explores how caricature and satire distort appearance and critique society.

1. Robin Li
Professor D’ Augustine
Curators:
1. Constance C. McPhee, Associate Curator
2. Nadine M. Orenstein

2.  Genres of art intended to make fun of people
 Exaggerate to point of ridiculous
 Motives for mockery: political, moral, psychological, social
 Difficult to interpret picture b/c of different time period

3.  Caricature- a picture  Satire- the use of ironyor
exaggerating the sarcasm in exposing or
peculiarities of people or deriding folly, etc.
things
 Mocks lust, greed, fashion,
 Distorts human physical and vanity
characteristics

4. Section 1: (Caricature)
Exaggeration and Grotesque

5. Head of Man in
Profile
By: Leonardo da Vinci
• Black-chalk sketch

6. Section 2: (Caricature)
Extreme Physiques

7. Well, hello
By: Anonymous artist
• Geometrical opposites
• Mismatched friends

8. Caricature of Painter

9. Section 3: (Caricature)
People as Objects

10. The Bush Years
By: Anonymous Artist
• Tumbling stock market

11. Section 4: (Satire)
Social Satire

13. The Pit Door (1800’s)
By: Robert Dighton

14. Pidgeon Hole By: Rowlandson

16. Dinners Drest in
the neatest
Manner
By: Rowlandson
• Mystery of what takes place
behind kitchen door

17. Entry and Exit By: Charlet

19. 6 Stages of
Mending a Face
By: Rowlandson
• Mocks lady in pursuit of youth
and beauty
• Sacrifice health for vanity

21. The Political Piñata By: Mendez

22. The Plumb-
Pudding in
Danger
By: James Gillray
• Napoleon (right) and Prime
Minister William Pitt (left)
• During Napoleonic War, 1803-
1815

23. • Humor is a very important aspect of art
• Caricature and satire started during the Renaissance
• Still influences the world or art today