Word: caricaturist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drawings were accepted-and the museum never had reason for regrets. Topolski's tortuous but versatile line, which had led him from Warsaw to London, eventually made him one of Britain's best war artists and earned him an international reputation as a caricaturist besides. Last week Topolski's latest oils and drawings were on exhibition in London's Leicester Galleries and his caricatures brightened the pages of the current Vogue. The sketches (of Churchill, Daladier, Paul Ramadier and Bertrand Russell, among others) were better than his frightening, jumbled paintings of battles and blitz, courts...
Cruikshank (1792-1878) was the first important British artist to make a living from book illustration. His father had been a caricaturist, and by the age of twelve, George had a job etching plates and filling in details for him. His firsthand knowledge of London's low life was to enrich Dickens' Oliver Twist for generations of readers (Cruikshank's Fagin, G. K. Chesterton once remarked, looked as if Fagin himself had done it). Few could recall Cruikshank's later illustrations for Uncle Tom's Cabin or the series of etchings entitled simply The Bottle...
Jack-of-all-Cultures. With a popular caricaturist's quick, sure eye for the new and bright, Covarrubias is drawn irresistibly to exotic cultures. His special interest is what he calls "transculturation"-the effect of one culture on another. In Bali he saw an ancient culture untouched by the modern, in Tehuantepec another that had adapted Spanish culture to a native folk pattern. Last week 42-year-old Miguel was looking restlessly toward China and learning Chinese; he was thinking about a book on Orientalism under pressure from the West...
Newspapers then were few and bad; the public paid up to a shilling a print for what were, in effect, editorial cartoons. George III complained that he "could not understand" Caricaturist James Gillray's pictorial attacks on him. The King would have had to be stupider than history has made him to miss the venom of Gillray's cartoon showing "Farmer George" sleepily sloffing up a soft-boiled...
...pull the customers' heart strings like so much taffy. This time his expert hand has slipped. His craftsmanship is submerged in an inept script. Even Claude Rains, generally a likable and competent actor, has script trouble. Referred to throughout the film as a wise and witty caricaturist, Mr. Rains's caricatures look worse than mediocre, and he has been given nothing either wise or witty...