Word: caricaturist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Bernard Shaw, free of charge, presented Manhattan Caricaturist Jack Rosen with an original self-portrait of G. B. Shaw in a top hat - scrawled on top of a caricature which Rosen had sent him (see cut). Said Shaw in a dedicatory note on the back: "Your caricature is a stupid one. When you are caricaturing a brain worker make his forehead nine-tenths of the picture." Reproved, Rosen tried again...
There is, however, another side to be taken. Grosz is primarily a caricaturist, and his unrelenting attacks upon society and its institutions can be partly attributed to a sincere desire to bring to people's minds the notion that all is not well. His bitter realization that the World War had nothing to do with spiritual purification made him turn against those phases of society which seemed to him to be contributing factors toward causing war. Hence Grosz's early work consists of a condemnation of the money-grabbing, cafe-inhabiting industrial magnate, and the puppet-like member...